Oscar Fingal O'Flaherty Wills Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. He studied at Trinity College Dublin and then at Magdalen College Oxford where he started the cult of 'Aestheticism', which involves making an art of life. Following his marriage to Constance Lloyd in 1884, he published several books of stories ostensibly for children and one novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891).
Wilde's first success as a playwright was with Lady Windemere's Fan in 1892. He followed this up with A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, all performed on the London stage between 1892 and 1895. However Wilde's homosexual relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas was exposed by the young man's father, the Marquis of Queensbury. Wilde brought a libel suit against Queensbury but lost and was sentenced to two year's imprisonment. He was released in 1897 and fled to France where he died a broken man in 1900.
Écrivain britannique naturaliste né le 2 juin 1840 à Stinsford, Dorchester (Royaume-Uni), mort le 11 janvier 1928 dans la même ville.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1859. Before starting his writing career, Doyle attended medical school, where he met the professor who would later inspire his most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes. A Study in Scarlet was Doyle's first novel; he would go on to write more than sixty stories featuring Sherlock Holmes. He died in England in 1930.
Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay (now known as Mumbai), India, but returned with his parents to England at the age of five. Among Kipling’s best-known works are The Jungle Book, Just So Stories, and the poems “Mandalay” and “Gunga Din.” Kipling was the first English-language writer to receive the Nobel Prize for literature (1907) and was among the youngest to have received the award.
Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) estudió en Oxford, donde llevó una vida de «pereza, disolución y derroche». En los años treinta se consagró como extraordinario novelista cómico con sus novelas Decadencia y caída, Cuerpos viles, Merienda de negros y ¡Noticia bomba!, publicadas en Anagrama. Entre sus obras posteriores destacan Retorno a Brideshead, La espada de honor y Los seres queridos, esta última también en Anagrama.
Herbert George "H. G." Wells (1866-1946), journaliste et romancier britannique mondialement connu pour La Guerre des mondes, La Machine à explorer le temps, L'Homme invisible et L'Île du docteur Moreau, est souvent qualifié de "père de la science-fiction". Il s'est également illustré avec talent dans des domaines plus académiques, tels que l'histoire, la politique, la critique sociale et la littérature générale. On connaît moins son amour des jeux de stratégie et wargames, dont il a écrit des règles fort détaillées au début du XXe siècle, avec la verve et l'humour dont il était coutumier.
dashboard
Series
Col. Mejores Cuentos
|
Al igual que ocurre con otros volúmenes de la Colección Mejores Cuentos, la presente antología reúne historias de los más destacados cuentistas de Inglaterra. La cantidad de grandes escritores ingleses es vasta, de tal manera que es una tarea muy ardua seleccionar pocos cuentos entre tantos excelentes. Por otro lado, el lector puede tener la máxima certeza de que encontrará en esta obra cuentos hermosos escritos por cuentistas de talento incuestionable, como Dickens, James Joyce, Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde, D.H. Lawrence, Thomas Hardy... solo por mencionar algunos. Esta es una obra imperdible que hará las delicias del lector.
Title : Los Mejores Cuentos Ingleses
EAN : 9786558944171
Publisher : Lebooks Editora
The eBook Los Mejores Cuentos Ingleses is in ePub format protected by Filigrane numérique.
If you want to read on an e-reader from a different brand, check out our guide.
It may not be available for sale in your country, but exclusively for sale from an account domiciled in France.
If the redirection does not happen automatically, click on this link.
Log in
My account