Oscar Wilde - Libros y biografía

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...

Lady Windermere's Fan: A Play About a Good Woman is a play by Oscar Wilde, who uses his sharp wit to satirize Victorian ideals about marriage. Lady Windemere suspects her husband of infidelity and retaliates...

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,...

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...

De Profundis (Latin: "from the depths") is an epistle written by Oscar Wilde during his imprisonment in Reading Gaol, to Lord Alfred Douglas.

Vera is a play by Oscar Wilde. It is a melodramatic tragedy set in Russia and is loosely based on the life of Vera Zasulich. It was Wilde's first play, and the first to be performed. In 1880, with only...

The Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde contains passages from his short poems, essays, plays, and letters. There is a lot from de Profundis, which was written while Wilde was in prison. Wilde seems to have...

A Woman of No Importance is a play by Irish playwright Oscar Wilde. The play premièred on 19 April 1893 at London's Haymarket Theatre. Like Wilde's other society plays, it satirizes English upper class...

The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile either in Berneval-le-Grand or in Dieppe, France, after his release from Reading Gaol (pronounced "redding jail") on 19 May 1897....

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,...

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,...

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...

L’ultima e la più celebre delle “commedie salottiere” di Oscar Wilde. Una “femme fatale”, Mrs Cheveley (una “donna con un passato”), ricatta il brillante Sir Robert Chiltern (il “marito ideale”) minacciandolo...

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.

Il romanzo è ambientato nella Londra del XIX secolo. Parla di un giovane, Dorian Gray, che arriverà a fare della sua bellezza un rito insano. Egli inizia a rendersi conto del privilegio del suo fascino...

Originally published in 1891 when Wilde was at the height of his form, these brilliant essays on art, literature, criticism, and society display the flamboyant poseur’s famous wit and wide learning. A...

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...

Nei due racconti di Oscar Wilde presenti in questo volume, il fantasma di Canterville ed il delitto di Lord Arthur Savile, prevale l’umorismo tipico dell’autore, realizzando così una parodia dei racconti...

Gli aforismi esprimono al meglio l’estetica di Oscar Wilde, inseparabile dalla sua vita, difatti egli non solo predicò l’estetismo, ma volle vivere la propria vita come un’opera d’arte, affrontandone...

Dall'incipit del libro: "Era l'ultimo ricevimento di lady Windermere, alla vigilia della primavera. Bentink House, più dell'usato, brulicava di visitatori. Sei membri del ministero eran venuti direttamente...

Une fois dans sa chambre, il se jeta sur un canapé et ses yeux s'emplirent de larmes. Il avait fait de son mieux pour commettre le meurtre, mais il avait échoué à deux reprises sans que ce fût sa faute....

Oscar Wilde pubblicò Il ritratto di Dorian Gray nel 1891. il romanzo, simbolo del decadentismo, fu accolto dalla critica vittoriana con scandalo e furiose polemiche. La storia narra la vicenda del bellissimo...

The Nihilists is a play by Oscar Wilde. It is a melodramatic tragedy set in Russia and is loosely based on the life of Vera Zasulich. It was Wilde's first play, and the first to be performed. In 1880,...

A House of Pomegranates is a collection of fairy tales, written by Oscar Wilde, which was published in 1891 as a second collection for The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888). Wilde once said that this...

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.

An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedic stage play by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honor. The action is set in London,...

Il De Profundis è una lunga lettera a Lord Alfred Douglas, il giovane amato da Wilde, scritta nei primi mesi del 1897 nel carcere di Reading dove Wilde si trovava da quasi due anni per il reato di sodomia....

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...

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), by Oscar Wilde, was first published as a serial story in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine.As submitted by Wilde to the magazine, the editors feared...

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...