Oscar Wilde - Libros y biografía

High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince. He was gilded all over with thin leaves of fine gold, for eyes he had two bright sapphires, and a large red ruby glowed on...

Morning-room in Algernon’s flat in Half-Moon Street. The room is luxuriously and artistically furnished. The sound of a piano is heard in the adjoining room. [Lane is arranging afternoon tea on the table,...

La vita di Oscar Wilde è una singolare parabola morale e, insieme un'opera di genio. Soleva dire il Poeta, giunto al culmine tragico della sua esistenza, in quel periodo della ebrezza dionisiaca, che...

Mrs. Allonby. What a comfort it is to have got rid of the men for a little! Lady Stutfield. Yes; men persecute us dreadfully, don’t they? Mrs. Allonby. Persecute us? I wish they did. Lady Hunstanton....

It was the night before the day fixed for his coronation, and the young King was sitting alone in his beautiful chamber. His courtiers had all taken their leave of him, bowing their heads to the ground,...

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...

"Le Fantôme de Canterville", aussi traduit en français sous le titre "Le Fantôme des Canterville", est une nouvelle d'Oscar Wilde publiée en 1887. Oscar Wilde, dont le nom complet est Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie...

The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde, appearing as the lead story in Lippincotts Monthly Magazine on 20 June 1890, printed as the July 1890 issue of this magazine. The...

Romanzo che narra le vicende di Dorian, il quale è eternamente giovane per mezzo di un ritratto che invecchia al posto suo. Libro in lingua originale inglese con traduzione in italiano.

Un artiste est un créateur de belles choses. Révéler l'Art en cachant l'artiste, tel est le but de l'Art. Le critique est celui qui peut traduire dans une autre manière ou avec de nouveaux procédés l'impression...

Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword! Some kill their...

. . . Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle...

LE JEUNE SYRIEN. Comme la princesse Salomé est belle ce soir! LE PAGE D'HÉRODIAS. Regardez la lune. La lune a l'air très étrange. On dirait une femme qui sort d'un tombeau. Elle ressemble à une femme...

C'était la dernière réception de lady Windermere, avant le printemps. Bentinck House était, plus que d'habitude, encombré d'une foule de visiteurs. Six membres du cabinet étaient venus directement après...

As one enters Rome from the Via Ostiensis by the Porta San Paolo, the first object that meets the eye is a marble pyramid which stands close at hand on the left. There are many Egyptian obelisks in Rome—tall,...

Der Künstler ist der Schöpfer schöner Dinge. Kunst zu offenbaren und den Künstler zu verbergen, ist die Aufgabe der Kunst. Ein Kritiker ist, wer seinen Eindruck von schönen Dingen in eine andere Form...

Lord Darlington. How do you do, Lady Windermere? Lady Windermere. How do you do, Lord Darlington? No, I can’t shake hands with you. My hands are all wet with these roses. Aren’t they lovely? They came...

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...

He was a Grecian lad, who coming home With pulpy figs and wine from Sicily Stood at his galley’s prow, and let the foam Blow through his crisp brown curls unconsciously, And holding wave and wind in boy’s...

Dorian Gray est un jeune homme d'une très grande beauté. Son ami artiste peintre Basil Hallward est obsédé par cette dernière et en tire toute son inspiration. Sa fascination pour le jeune homme le mène...

"De Profundis" (Latin: "from the depths") is a letter written by Oscar Wilde during his imprisonment in Reading Gaol, to "Bosie" (Lord Alfred Douglas).   Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October...

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...

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...

Un manoir hanté, le fantôme d'un homme qui a tué sa femme et une tâche de sang qui apparaît de façon récurrente. Pourtant, Mr Otis n'a pas peur et ne croit pas aux revenants. "Le Fantôme de Canterville"...

"The Canterville Ghost" is a short story by Oscar Wilde, widely adapted for the screen and stage. It was the first of Wilde's stories to be published. The story is about a family who moves to a castle...

Through the exertions of Sir Charles Newton, to whom every student of classic art should be grateful, some of the wonderful treasures so long immured in the grimy vaults of the British Museum have at...

Être entraîné à la dérive de toute passion jusqu'à ce que mon âme devienne un luth aux cordes tendues dont peuvent jouer tous les vents, c'est pour cela que j'ai renoncé à mon antique sagesse, à l'austère...

Dieses E-Book ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig Korrektur gelesen. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (* 16. Oktober 1854 in Dublin; † 30....

Dorian Gray is the subject of a full-length portrait in oil by Basil Hallward, an artist who is impressed and infatuated by Dorian's beauty; he believes that Dorian’s beauty is responsible for the new...

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...