The Canterville Ghost - formato ePub

El fantasma de Canterville, del escritor británico Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), es uno de sus relatos más famosos junto con su novela El retrato de Dorian Gray. El fantasma, es un personaje simpático que...

La revelación del destino de lord Arthur Saville por un oscuro quiromántico rompe su felicidad y le obliga a aplazar su boda, ya que antes debe cumplirse la terrible profecía que le ha sido desvelada:...

«La tragedia de mi vida» es la forma en que Oscar Wilde define a la dolorosa pasión homosexual que lo unió a lord Alfred Douglas, a quien cariñosamente apodaba «Bosie» y que le costó, por denuncia de...

"El retrato de Dorian Gray" (original en inglés: "The Picture of Dorian Gray") es una novela escrita por el autor irlandés Oscar Wilde, publicada en el Lippincott's Monthly Magazine el 20 de junio de...

El fantasma de Canterville, del escritor británico Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900), es uno de sus relatos más famosos junto con su novela El retrato de Dorian Gray. El fantasma, es un personaje simpático que...

El retrato de Dorian Gray (1891), es una de sus obras más famosas. Encuadrada en lo que se dio en llamar movimiento decadente o simbolista de la mitad del siglo XIX, reivindicaba un credo estilístico...

El retrato de Dorian Gray narra la obsesión de un hombre atractivo y exitoso por mantenerse siempre joven, después de que un amigo, el pintor Basil Hallward, le retratara de manera perfecta en un cuadro....

¿Cuál es la diferencia entre el arte especialmente decorativo y la pintura? El arte decorativo pone de manifiesto su material; el arte imaginativo lo anula. El tapiz muestra sus hilos como parte de su...

Se presentan dos novelas breves. Primero El fantasma de Canterville, en la que un embajador estadounidense compra un viejo castillo donde hay un fantasma que la creará serios problemas. Segundo, El crimen...

Comedia costumbrista, última obra teatral del británico Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900), estrenada en 1895 en Londres. Tal vez la mejor de su autor y aquella en la que más fácilmente se demuestra su capacidad...

En 1895, en la cima de su carrera, Wilde, Oscar fue condenado a dos años de prisión con trabajos forzados, acusado de homosexualidad. Aunque sus años de cárcel lo destrozaron física y moralmente, escribió...

El presente libro contiene los cinco cuentos

Oscar Wilde es una de las figuras más brillantes de la literatura inglesa. El retrato de Dorian Gray (1891), es una de sus obras más famosas. Encuadrada en lo que se dio en llamar movimiento decadente...

Oscar O’Flahertie Fingal Wils-Wilde (1854-1900), mejor conocido como Oscar Wilde, es una de las figuras más brillantes de la literatura inglesa. Esta edición contiene la totalidad de los cuentos publicados...

De profundis es la epístola que Oscar Wilde escribió para su compañero, Lord Alfred Douglas en la prisión de Reading en marzo de 1897, dos meses antes de que cumpliera su sentencia, la cual fue impuesta...

Un marido ideal es una obra de teatro en cuatro actos del autor Oscar Wilde estrenada el 3 de enero de 1895.

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