Wilde: 1747 books

Wilde, glamorous and notorious, more famous as a playwright or prisoner than as a poet, invites readers of his verse to meet an unknown and intimate figure. The poetry of his formative years includes the haunting elegy to his young sister and the grieving lyric at the death of his father. The religious...

In deutscher und englischer Sprache: Die berühmte Geschichte von Oscar Wilde eignet sich ausgezeichnet, um unterhaltsam vorhandene Englischkenntnisse aufzufrischen und zu erweitern. Eine reiche amerikanische Familie erwirbt trotz Warnung der Vorbesitzer vor dem Hausgespenst das englische Schloss Canterville....

These are essays on painting, writing and drama, mostly the latter two. The Decay of Lying mourns the rise of realism, and the loss of characters who speak as people should speak, not as they do. Wilde believes Life imitates Art, so that if the art is written or painted well enough, Nature will imitate...

Fairy tales are rarely written exclusively for children. They offer a variety of strong characters, themes and challenges as well as an insight into the mystery of the soul. These tales often contain profound truths that survived many hundreds of years, and a universal appeal that makes them both enjoyable...

The Happy Prince and Other Tales (also 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 Happy Prince", "The Nightingale and the Rose", "The Selfish Giant", "The...

'The Duchess of Padua' is a five-act play by Oscar Wilde which was originally written for American actress Mary Anderson in 1883. Due to her rejection of the play, it was not performed until 1891 by the American tragedian Lawrence Barrett. He changed the name to "Guido Ferranti", the name...

For Love of the King; A BURMESE MASQUE written by Oscar Wilde. Published by METHUEN & CO. LTD. 36 ESSEX STREET W.C. LONDON.  First Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd. in 1922.  Oscar Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became...

Oscar Wilde was a prominent Irish playwright and novelist in the late 19th century.  With classics such as The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde remains one of the most widely read authors today.  This edition of Salome includes a table of contents.

Um quiromante viu um assassinato na palma da mão de Lorde Arthur Saville. Aí então só havia uma solução possível: Lorde Arthur teria que cumprir seu destino antes de se casar com seu grande amor, a doce e inocente Sybill. Em "O fantasma de Canterville", um fantasma habilidoso vê...

De todos os dândis que encantavam a sofisticada sociedade londrina do final do século XIX, o mais brilhante e luminoso era sem dúvida Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (Dublin 1854-Paris 1900). Célebre, respeitado, Wilde vivia o ano de 1895 como o grande autor de O retrato de Dorian Gray (1891)...

Poucos nomes da literatura rivalizam com a combinação de humor, perspicácia, ironia e espirituosidade que são a marca registrada de Oscar Wilde (1854-1900). Nesta comédia farsesca que estreou nos palcos londrinos em 1895, os personagens, pessoas distintas da sociedade vitoriana, mantêm disfarces...

The 500th anniversary of the first publication of Thomas More’s Utopia invites a reappraisal of its significance, not just as an ironic and playful fiction, but as a serious contribution to social and political thought. More delivers a searing critique of the injustices of his time and imagines...

Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray ist der einzige Roman des irischen Schriftstellers Oscar Wilde. Eine erste Fassung erschien 1890 in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine aus Philadelphia, 1891 wurde bei dem Londoner Verlag Ward, Lock and Co. die heute bekannte, überarbeitete und erweiterte Fassung in Buchform...

The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a work of poetry 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. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading, after being convicted of homosexual offences...