Wilde: 1747 books

In 'The Decay of Lying' Oscar Wilde uses his decadent ideology in an attempt to reverse and therefore reject his audiences' 'normal' conceptualizations of nature, art and morality. Wilde's views of life and art are illustrated through the use of Platonic dialogue where the character Vivian takes on...

The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde, appearing as the lead story in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine on 20 June 1890, printed as the July 1890 issue of this magazine. The magazine's editors feared the story was indecent as submitted, so they censored roughly 500 words,...

Witty playwright Oscar Wilde is most famous for his 1895 play "The Importance of Being Earnest." The two protagonists use a false identity, Earnest, as a way to escape from unwanted social obligations. However, they encounter difficulties keeping up their personas as their social circles draw closer...

Featuring the entirety of Oscar Wilde’s collected poetry, prose, and dramatic works, this collection demonstrates the author’s wide range, unerring wit, and unique perspective. Bringing together Wilde’s most famous works, including The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest,...

Durante la mayor parte del siglo XX, la valoración de Wilde como escritor y persona conoció en general dos perspectivas de acercamiento radicalmente contrapuestas; por un lado, se puede hablar de una postura «oficial» que ha tratado de soslayar cualquier rasgo escandaloso de la vida del autor,...

Cartas a Lord Alfred Douglas «¡La felicidad, no! ¡Sobre todo nada de felicidad! ¡El placer! Hay que preferir siempre lo más trágico», exclamaba en cierta ocasión Oscar Wilde. Mucho más que un aforismo, la frase contiene toda una declaración de principios, que el propio Wilde llevaría hasta...

Collected her in one omnibus edition are Oscar Wilde's most important works including The Importance of Being Earnest, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Salome, Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism, The Happy Prince and Other Tales, and The Canterville Ghost. These works of poetry,...

Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde (1911) is a collection of poetry Wilde wrote when he was twenty-six years old. It is combined with some later works, including The Ballad of Reading Gaol, which displays Wilde's sensuousness and precocity. Though never well-received, Wilde's poetry is quite unique and deserves more attention than critics have been willing to give it.

* Illustrated * Author Biography * Interactive Table of Contents * Free Audiobook Download The Picture of Dorian Gray [ Illustrated ] [ Free Audiobooks Download ] The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde, appearing as the lead story in Lippincott's Monthly...

Salome is a tragedy by Oscar Wilde. The original 1891 version of the play was in French. Three years later an English translation was published. The play tells in one act the Biblical story of Salome, stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas, who, to her stepfather's dismay but to the delight of...

Complete Works of Oscar Wilde "Irish Playwright, Novelist, Poet, and Author of Short Stories"! 30 Complete Works! Fully Interactive Table of Contents For Easy navigation! Works Included: A CRITIC IN PALL MALL A Florentine Tragedy, La Sainte Courtisane A Woman of No Importance THE...

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on the 16th October 1854 in Dublin Ireland. The son of Dublin intellectuals Oscar proved himself an outstanding classicist at Dublin, then at Oxford. With his education complete Wilde moved to London and its fashionable cultural and social circles. With...

No Verão de 1891, Wilde é apresentado ao jovem Lord Alfred Douglas, familiarmente conhecido como Bosie, estudante de Oxford com aspirações literárias, filho do Marquês de Queensberry. Inicia-se então a tempestuosa amizade que culminará no julgamento e condenação de Oscar Wilde a dois anos de...

Die Warnungen an den amerikanischen Botschafter in England laufen ins Leere: Hiram B. Otis ist entschlossen, Schloss Canterville als Wohnsitz für seine Familie zu kaufen, obwohl dort ein gefährlicher Geist sein Unwesen treiben soll. Das Gespenst hat angeblich schon mehrere Schlossbewohner in den...