Oscar Wilde - Libros y biografía

Abandoned as an infant and raised by a poor woodcutter, The Star-Child grows up to be vain and cruel. But when he rejects a beggar who is revealed to be his mother, The Star-Child is punished, and sets...

When an American family purchase a haunted manor called Canterville Chase, the young daughter takes pity on the erstwhile ghost and endeavours to release him from his haunting.Victorian author Oscar Wilde...

The world is revealed as a cruel place when the Infanta of Spain is gifted a hunchbacked child for entertainment on her twelfth birthday.Victorian author Oscar Wilde is known both as a playwright and...

Featuring the entirety of Oscar Wilde’s dramatic works, this collection demonstrates the author’s wide range, unerring wit, and unique perspective. Bringing together Wilde’s most famous plays, including...

Featuring the entirety of Oscar Wilde’s collected poetry, prose, and dramatic works, this collection demonstrates the author’s wide range, unerring wit, and unique perspective. Bringing together Wilde’s...

A selfish giant reforms his ways when the laughter of children brings the beauty of spring to his garden.Victorian author Oscar Wilde is known both as a playwright and prose author. Among his most famous...

In love with a mysterious woman, Lord Murchison one day follows her in order to learn her secrets. But when, after the lady’s death, her secret is revealed, Murchison is left to ponder its meaning.Victorian...

A nightingale selflessly sacrifices herself to help a young student win the love of his professor’s daughter, but both the professor’s daughter and the young student prove unworthy of her sacrifice.Victorian...

When Lady Windermere begins to suspect her husband of infidelity, she confronts him, accusing him of having an affair with a woman known as Mrs. Erlynne. Lord Windermere denies her accusations, but the...

A rich merchant, Simone, discovers that his wife, Bianca, is having an affair with a prince named Guido Bardi. Incensed by the indignity visited upon him by the prince, Simone challenges his rival to...

The expectations and inequalities of the British upper-class are brought to the forefront when Mrs. Arbuthnot is forced to set her impeccable reputation aside for the sake of an important opportunity...

A young man known as Guido is set upon revenge, planning to murder the duke of Padua, who murdered Guido’s father years before. However, Guido soon finds that he has fallen in love with the duke’s wife,...

For centuries the mystery of the identity of Mr. W. H., the dedicatee of William Shakespeare’s sonnets has confounded literary historians. Consumed with solving the mystery, Erskine comes to believe any...

A young fisherman’s life is irrevocably changed when he severs his soul in order to live underwater with his love, a beautiful mermaid.Victorian author Oscar Wilde is known both as a playwright and prose...

Intent on seducing a Christian man, Honorius, who lives in seclusion in the desert, Myrrhina, a noblewoman and famed temptress, travels to Honorius’s retreat in pursuit of him.La Sainte Courtisane was...

When a palm-reader reveals that Lord Arthur Savile’s destiny is to be a murderer, Lord Arthur sets out to commit the crime so that he might marry without impediment. But was murder truly Lord Arthur’s...

When an illegitimate shepherd is revealed as the only heir to a unnamed country, the truth of the young boy’s coronation regalia is revealed to him through three nightmares. With this in mind, the new...

Consumed with self-importance, a rocket misses his chance for greatness at the wedding of a prince and princess. When he is found by two boys, he feels again his chance at greatness, only to have his...

Oscar Wilde’s adaptation of the biblical story delves into Salome’s character and motivations when she requests the head of John the Baptist as a reward after dancing the dance of the seven veils. To...

A selfish miller proves to be the downfall of his devoted friend and gardener, Hans, even as he benefits from the fruits of Hans’s labour.Victorian author Oscar Wilde is known both as a playwright and...

The ideals and opinions of Lord Henry Wotton, who believes that the only purpose of life is the pursuit of beauty, greatly affect the young, handsome Dorian Gray. Lamenting that one day his own good looks...

Hochmut tut selten gut: Diese Lebenserfahrung bestätigt diese deutsch- und englischsprachige Ausgabe des Märchens von Oscar Wilde - sorgfältig und liebevoll editiert. Wie bei allen Werken der ofd edition...

Publié en 1891, Le Déclin du mensonge est l’un des plus célèbres essais de Wilde. Sous la forme d’un brillant dialogue entre deux esthètes, à coups de paradoxes et de mots d’esprit, il livre son credo...

Le Portrait de Dorian Gray a été rédigé en 1890 puis complété en 1891. Ce roman fantastique est à la fois un manifeste esthétique et un récit moral. Bien qu'Oscar Wilde y développe l'idée d'un art dégagé...

LES GRANDS TEXTES DU XIXe SIÈCLE " L'expression était d'une cruauté atroce. Là, son âme même, émergeant de la toile, le dévisageait et l'appelait à son tribunal. " Devant son portrait, œuvre d'un de ses...

Lisez, écoutez, écrivez ! Pocket et Nathan s'associent et proposent "Une oeuvre, une voix", une collection qui engage l'élève dans une lecture active et personnelle, à la manière d'un carnet de lecteur....

La célèbre comédie théâtrale de l'inconcournable Oscar Wilde en version blingue. La série BILINGUE de 12-21 propose :• une traduction fidèle et intégrale, accompagnée de nombreuses notes • une méthode...

À la fin du XIXe siècle, le mythe de Salomé suscite chez les artistes une fascination à nulle autre pareille : la princesse de Judée, qui incarne la femme «naturelle, c’est-à-dire abominable» selon le...

25 mai 1895. Oscar Wilde, dramaturge admiré du Tout-Londres et amant de lord Alfred Douglas, est condamné à deux ans de travaux forcés pour «outrage aux moeurs». Début 1897, l'écrivain brisé, réduit...

Jack Worthing et Algernon Moncrieff, deux jeunes dandies du Londres de la fin du XIXe siècle, se sont inventé un parent et un ami fictif, bien commode pour échapper aux obligations sociales. Pour Jack,...