Oscar Wilde: 993 books

Oscar Wilde hat keine Autobiografie hinterlassen, allerdings einen umfangreichen Brief aus dem Zuchthaus an seinen Freund und Geliebten Lord Alfred Douglas. Mit dem Schreiben wollte Wilde erklärtermaßen eine Art Lebensresümee ziehen und die Veränderungen deutlich machen, die sein Denken in der...

Fırtınalı yaşamı boyunca her davranışıyla ya bir skandal ya da bir akım yaratan, her sözü bir özdeyiş haline gelen Oscar Wilde'ın Alfred Douglas'la yakın dostluğu, Douglas'ın babası Queensberry Markisi'ni çok kızdırmıştı. Marki tarafından eşcinsellikle suçlanan Wilde, dostlarının...

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and short story writer. Known for his barbed wit, he was one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day. As the result...

Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray ist der einzige Roman des irischen Schriftstellers Oscar Wilde. Die Hauptfigur, der reiche und schöne Dorian Gray, besitzt ein Porträt, das statt seiner altert und in das sich die Spuren seiner Sünden einschreiben. Während Gray immer maßloser und grausamer wird, bleibt...

Poemas en prosa El uso abundante de adjetivos suele resultar contraproducente para la mayoría de los autores, pero Oscar Wilde es una de esas figuras literarias que escapan a todo paradigma. Apasionado lingüista y esteta, Wilde mantuvo en su carrera literaria una búsqueda permanente de la exquisitez...

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 A House of Pomegranates includes a table of contents.

Experience the wit of Wilde in these four delightfully satiric plays—including his masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest.   In the late nineteenth century, Oscar Wilde’s plays were the toast of London, celebrated for the Irish playwright’s mischievous wit, pointed social satire, and...

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 The English Renaissance of Art includes a table of contents.

This collection contains an active table of contents (HTML), which makes reading easier to make it more enjoyable. "The Picture of Dorian Gray" is Oscar Wilde's classic tale of the moral decline of its title character, Dorian Gray. When Dorian has his portrait painted by Basil Hallward and...

Salome was the daughter of Herod II and Herodias. She is infamous for demanding and receiving the head of John the Baptist, according to the New Testament. According to Flavius Josephus's Jewish Antiquities, Salome was first married to Philip the Tetrarch of Ituraea and Trakonitis. After Philip's...

Few works in English literature have so peculiar a history as Oscar Wilde's play Salome. Written originally in French in 1892 and ridiculed on its publication, translated into English by Lord Alfred Douglas ("Bosie" himself) and again heaped with scorn, it has survived for 75 years, served as the...

The Picture of Dorian Gray, the only novel by Oscar Wilde, was first published in 1890. A substantially revised and expanded edition was published in April 1891. For the new edition, Wilde revised the content of the novel's existing chapters, divided the final chapter into two chapters, and created...

Oscar Wilde's spooky tale of a genteel English ghost clashing with a brash American family is endearing, hilarious, and perfect reading for all ages   Canterville Chase possesses all of the trappings of a standard haunted country house—including large suits of armor and Gothic paneled...

If a picture speaks a thousand words, a love letter or a poem speaks a thousand more... Even in this age of e-mail, faxes, and instant messaging, nothing has ever replaced the power of a love letter or that of a poem. LIST OF POEMS: 1. Lord Byron - She Walks in Beauty 2. Christina Rossetti - I Loved...