The Picture of Dorian Gray - 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.

This is the third, and probably the last, of the Fairy Books of many colours. First there was the Blue Fairy Book; then, children, you asked for more, and we made up the Red Fairy Book; and, when you...

When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too. She had a little thin face and a little...

The "Times.""For its rapid action, in fact, we have seldom read a better story, or one which is more full of incidents, sanguinary, trenchant, and robust."The "Daily Telegraph.""A true and a wonderfully...

The SCENE is the Exterior of a Cottage in West Issacshire on a desperately Arcadian afternoon in August. MR. ICKY, quaintly dressed in the costume of an Elizabethan peasant, is pottering and doddering...

COMMON opinion said that Lord Lynborough ought never to have had a peerage and forty thousand a year; he ought to have had a pound a week and a back bedroom in Bloomsbury. Then he would have become an...

Tales of Space and Time, A collection of short stories: "The Crystal Egg", "The Star", "A Story of the Stone Age", "A Story of the Days to Come" & "The Man who could Work Miracles" Some Books of...

The stories begin with those which children like bestthe old Blue Beard, Puss in Boots, Hop o my Thumb, Little Red Riding Hood, The Sleeping Beauty, and Toads and Pearls. These were first collected, written,...

Quite aside from its natural characteristics, there is an atmosphere about a college town, especially a New England college town, that is unmistakable. It is not so much actively intellectual as passively...

"Eugene Witla, wilt thou have this woman to thy wedded wife, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of matrimony? Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honour her, and keep her in sickness...

Then came a glimmer of daylight that grew and grew, and presently ended in another arch that looked out over a scene so like a picture out of a book about Italy that everyone's breath was taken away,...

In giving to the world the record of what, looked at as an adventure only, is I suppose one of the most wonderful and mysterious experiences ever undergone by mortal men, I feel it incumbent on me to...

Jaime Febrer arose at nine o'clock. Old Antonia, the faithful servant who cherished the memory of the past glories of the family, and who had attended upon Jaime from the day of his birth, had been bustling...

Agatha-nominated series! A madcap mystery set in the off, off, OFF Broadway world of theater (#4 in the Ivy Meadows Mystery series)There's a new sheriff in town—and she can sing! When Gold Bug Gulch's...

Have you ever felt that itch in the back of your brain you just can't scratch? A particular gnawing on your mind biting away your best thoughts? Meet Wormy: the literal brain worm residing inside the...

Children are not brought up in society to focus on politics. They are often encouraged to enjoy their life and their childhood. It is often said that kids should just be kids. But when there is a political...

Emmaline has been in a coma for two crucial years of her teenage life. Waking life is almost as disorienting, but finally she is reunited with her sister and father. Now she must make up for lost time,...

Aidan Black left the Marine Corps to skip the red tape, but it's a woman from his past he's now trying to avoid… one who believes him capable of murder. Briar Sutton is the last person I expect to see...

The Stygian Lepus Magazine is a thrilling foray into dark speculative fiction. In each new edition, readers explore the depths of imagination, where fear and fascination intertwine.Offering diverse genres...

This is a collection of ten horror microfiction tales, sometimes called bite-sized fiction or 'drabbles'. These stories are limited to precisely one-hundred words and aim to pack a punch, all the while...

SAMSARA'S DEAD HAVE CHOSEN NEL. AND THE CACOPHONY CALLED FOR JUSTICE. Archaeologist Dr. Nel Bently has never been farther from home. With a tenuous ceasefire from Lin's rebellion force and genocidal Harris...

Nina Rosethorn, a university student, survives a lightning strike and returns home to Vancouver. But the incident triggers a haunting ability: premonitions manifest in her nightmares. Determined to prevent...

Dangerously good-looking. Dangerously breathtaking. This dangerously sinful cowboy is going to steal her heart. When the outback's bare-knuckle champion, Dex Riggs, arrives in Sophie's emergency room,...

The "Love on the Ice" series delivers a pulse-pounding journey through five heart-stopping books that redefine love on and off the hockey rink!Book #1: Melting the Ice Between Us (Novella)I'm not sticking...

This captivating narrative blends stunning descriptions, powerful dialogues, and profound storytelling to bring a fresh totally unexplored perspective to the ancient legend. Encounter unknown characters...

The perfect neighborhood hides the most dangerous secrets.Sarah thought her new neighbors, Emily and Ryan, had it all: charm, kindness, and a flawless marriage. But beneath their polished smiles lurks...

When high-ranking official Henry Caldwell is found brutally murdered in his opulent estate, Detective Paul Johnson is called to the scene of what appears to be a straightforward case of political retribution....

MYTH: ITS BIRTH AND GROWTH. "Unchecked by external truth, the mind of man has a fatal facility for ensnaring, entrapping, and entangling itself. But, happily, happily for the human race, some fragment...

The contents of the work which gave such pleasure to this learned antiquary are as follows:I. IntroductionSimilarity of Arts and CustomsSimilarity of NamesOrigin of the WorkImitationCasual CoincidenceMiltonDante.II....

he Brothers Karamazov, is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Dostoyevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger...

In offering this study to a public accustomed only to the unquestioning acceptance of the home as something perfect, holy, quite above discussion, a word of explanation is needed. First, let it be clearly...