Wilde: 1747 books

While Oscar Wilde is now strongly associated with the tone of whimsy that imbues his breezy, effortlessly witty epigrams and essays, the Irish writer and playwright was also a serious thinker who, having been sentenced to two years of hard labor as a punishment for his homosexuality, was deeply engaged...

'Golden-shielded, silver-sworded, man-loving, male-child slaughtering Amazons,' is how the fifth-century Greek historian Hellanicus described the Amazons, and they have fascinated humanity ever since. Did they really exist? For centuries, scholars consigned them to the world of myth, but Lyn Webster...

Ebook con un sumario dinámico y detallado: El retrato de Dorian Gray es una novela escrita por el autor irlandés Oscar Wilde, publicada en el Lippincott's Monthly Magazine el 20 de junio de 1890.1 Posteriormente, Wilde revisaría la obra, haría varias modificaciones y agregaría nuevos capítulos....

Ebook con un sumario dinámico y detallado: La obra se sitúa en una casa de campo inglesa propiedad de Lady Hunstanton. Se abre el telón en la terraza donde Lady Caroline se conversa con un puritana invitada estadounidense de Lady Hunstanton, Hester Worsley. Otros personajes entran en escena, incluyendo...

The very interesting and richly coloured masque or pantomimic play which is here printed in book form for the first time, was invented sometime in 1894 or possibly a little earlier.  It was written, not for publication, but as a personal gift to the author’s friend and friend of his family,...

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 Intentions includes a table of contents.

Renowned for his poetry, plays, essays, and conversational skills, Oscar Wilde also wrote scintillating works of short fiction. This volume includes four fine examples, including The Canterville Ghost, the comical tale of a spirit who terrorized the residents of Canterville Chase for three centuries....

Miscellanies Oscar Wilde, irish writer and poet (1854-1900) This ebook presents «Miscellanies», from Oscar Wilde. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book -02- DEDICATION -03- INTRODUCTION -04-...

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...

Der Einakter "Salome" (französisch "Salomé") von Oscar Wilde gilt als eines der wichtigsten Dramen der anglo-französischen Décadence. Die Originalsprache der Tragödie ist nicht englisch, sondern französisch. Wilde schrieb dazu am 17. Dezember 1891 an Edmond de Goncourt, er...

"Der Priester und der Messnerknabe" (englisch "The Priest and the Acolyte") ist eine Erzählung von Oscar Wilde, geschrieben 1894. Oscar Fingal O' Flahertie Wills Wilde (* 16. Oktober 1854 in Dublin; † 30. November 1900 in Paris) war ein irischer Schriftsteller.

Originally published in 1891 Oscar Wilde's Intentions is a collection of literary essays that present his views on art and criticism. Wilde’s aesthetic philosophy and his commentaries on art literature criticism and society asserts the philosophy of 'art for art's sake': art is an end in itself and literature does not need to convey didactic lessons to be valuable.

A woman dreams of chameleons every night; a man in an orange jumpsuit finds himself marooned on a featureless plain; the first confirmed message from an extra terrestrial source; a cube with a mind of it's own and a bored space explorer all feature in this collection of sci fi short stories in...

Ten more coffee break sized stories from Barnaby Wilde. Including another tale from the Vertigo labs, a boy and a bear in the woods, a winter's tale of murder, and a true story from Crete. A touch of romance, a hint of sci fi, a portion of mystery, a morality tale and a thread of humour. Stories that...