Oscar, Wilde - Libros y biografía

"The Picture of Dorian Gray" is an philosophical novel by writer and playwright Oscar Wilde. Dorian Gray is the subject of a full-length portrait in oil by Basil Hallward, an artist who is impressed and...

Se esiste un ambito nel quale il talento di Oscar Wilde toccava vertici assoluti fino a superare sé stesso, era quello per la frase ad effetto. E questa strepitosa raccolta di aforismi è una lettura deliziosa,...

Oltre ai romanzi, oltre agli aforismi, oltre agli scandali che ne segnarono la vita e ne indirizzarono la produzione artistica, Wilde fu anche un eccellente scrittore di fiabe. In questo caso leggerete...

Em «De Profundis», uma carta para Lord Douglas Queensberry escrita na prisão, Wilde dá a conhecer um pouco do esteticismo, teoria artística da defesa da arte pela arte, e analisa a sua relação com os...

Guido [Taking a letter from his pocket and reading it.] ‘The hour noon; the city, Padua; the place, the market; and the day, Saint Philip’s Day.’ Ascanio And what of the man, how shall we know him? Guido...

Oscar Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an extremely popular Irish writer and poet who wrote in different forms throughout his career and became one of London's most popular playwrights in...

Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works. Written in Wilde's characteristically dazzling manner, full of stinging...

A House of Pomegranates is a collection of whimisical short stories by Oscar Wilde. This collections includes the following tales: The Young King, The Birthday of the Infanta, The Fisherman and his Soul,...

An ideal husband is an Oscar Wilde's 1895 drama that revolves around blackmail and political corruption and touches the themes of public and private honor.

The Happy Prince and Other Tales (sometimes called The Happy Prince and Other Stories) is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde first published in May 1888. It contains five stories, "The...

Publicado em 1891, no ensaio A decadência da mentira, Oscar Wilde põe em cena dois personagens que dialogam sobre arte: Viviano e Cyrillo. Viviano apresenta ao amigo algumas das ideias que compõem um...

Romanzo comico che narra l'esilarante convivenza della famiglia Otis, i nuovi inquini del castello dei Canterville con lo spettro di Sir Simon di Canterville, per nulla impressionati dall'inquilino gestiranno...

Die Hauptfigur, der reiche und schöne Dorian Gray, besitzt ein Porträt, das statt seiner altert und in das sich die Spuren seiner Sünden einschreiben. Während Gray immer maßloser und grausamer wird, bleibt...

The editor of writings by any author not long deceased is censured sooner or later for his errors of omission or commission. I have decided to err on the side of commission and to include in the uniform...

The home of the Canterville Ghost was the ancient Canterville Chase, which has all the accoutrements of a traditional haunted house. Descriptions of the wainscoting, the library panelled in black oak,...

QUESTO LIBRO E' A LAYOUT FISSO L’importanza di chiamarsi Ernest, messa in scena per la prima volta a Londra il 14 febbraio 1895, è una delle commedie più rappresentate al mondo. Jack, il protagonista,...

Possessing eternal youth and beauty produces exactly the same effect as sentencing a man to life without the possibility of parole. Both have nothing to lose and morals disappear before the desire for...

On its first publication The Picture of Dorian Gray was regarded as dangerously modern in its depiction of fin-de-siècle decadence. In this celebrated work, his only novel, Wilde forged a devastating...

De Profundis is a letter written by Oscar Wilde during his imprisonment. In the letter Wilde considers events leading to his conviction and discusses his spiritual development in prison and identification...

This ebook contains all of Oscar Wilde's plays (including the fragments), his only novel, his fairy tales and short stories, the poems, all of his essays, lectures, reviews, and other newspaper articles,...

This selection of essays by Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) demonstrate the varied power of his genius. Compiled from his lecture tours, newspaper articles, essays and epigrams, these writings show that beneath...

Large door opening on snowy landscape at back of stage. Peter Sabouroff and Michael. Peter (warming his hands at a stove). Has Vera not come back yet, Michael? Mich. No, Father Peter, not yet; 'tis a...

With the exception of the Poems in Prose this volume does not contain anything which the author ever contemplated reprinting. The Rise of Historical Criticism is interesting to admirers of his work, however,...

Nous perçumes le bruit cadencé de pas de danseurs; nous suivîmes, en flanant, la rue éclairée par la lune et nous arrêtâmes devant la maison de la Courtisane. De l'intérieur, à travers le tumulte, le...

The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which...

Dorian Gray – handsome, hedonistic, narcissistic – sells his soul for eternal beauty. Basil and Henry join him for the ride until it all goes too far, and the hangovers become murderous... Oscar Wilde's...

Everybody in the county knows that the great manor of Canterville Chase has been haunted for 300 years. But when the American minister Mr Otis moves in with his wife and family, they refuse to be frightened...

The Canterville Ghost is a popular 1887 novella by Oscar Wilde, widely adapted for the screen and stage. “The Canterville Ghost” is a parody featuring a dramatic spirit named Sir Simon and the United...

The Canterville Ghost is a popular 1887 novella by Oscar Wilde, widely adapted for the screen and stage. “The Canterville Ghost” is a parody featuring a dramatic spirit named Sir Simon and the United...

An amusing chronicle of the tribulations of the Ghost of Canterville Chase when his ancestral halls became the home of the American Minister to the Court of St. James.