Oscar Wilde: 993 books

Publicado dos meses después de La importancia de no hacer nada, La importancia de discutirlo todo insiste en que criticar es mucho más difícil que crear y que "no hacer nada es la cosa más difícil del mundo", reservada a un grupo de privilegiados intelectualmente. Oscar Wilde vuelve...

El retrato de Dorian Gray es considerada una de las últimas obras clásicas de la novela de terror gótica con una fuerte temática faustiana, además muestra un pintor con afecto íntimo y directo con el personaje principal. El libro causó controversia cuando fue publicado por primera vez; sin...

As one enters Rome from the Via Ostiensis by the Porta San Paolo, the first object that meets the eye is a marble pyramid which stands close at hand on the left. There are many Egyptian obelisks in Rome—tall, snakelike spires of red sandstone, mottled with strange writings, which remind us of the...

C'était la dernière réception de lady Windermere, avant le printemps. Bentinck House était, plus que d'habitude, encombré d'une foule de visiteurs. Six membres du cabinet étaient venus directement après l'audience du speaker, avec tous leurs crachats et leurs grands cordons. Toutes les jolies...

This meticulously edited horror collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Mortal Immortal… John William Polidori: The Vampyre Bram Stoker: Dracula The Jewel of Seven Stars… Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera Marjorie...

Playwright, poet, essayist, flamboyant man-about-town, Oscar Wilde pack an astonishing amount of work, genius, and controversy into two short decades, producing masterworks in every literary genre. This selection includes almost all of his short stories, including "The Canterville Ghost,"...

The Happy Prince and Other Tales is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde containing five stories, The Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose, The Selfish Giant, The Devoted Friend, and The Remarkable Rocket.

Through the exertions of Sir Charles Newton, to whom every student of classic art should be grateful, some of the wonderful treasures so long immured in the grimy vaults of the British Museum have at last been brought to light, and the new Sculpture Room now opened to the public will amply repay the...

The generosity of man is revealed when a poor man gives his last coin to a beggar, only to learn that the beggar is in fact a rich baron in disguise. Victorian author Oscar Wilde is known both as a playwright and prose author. Among his most famous works are The Picture of Dorian Gray, his...

Consumed with self-importance, a rocket misses his chance for greatness at the wedding of a prince and princess. When he is found by two boys, he feels again his chance at greatness, only to have his final explosion go off unobserved. Victorian author Oscar Wilde is known both as a playwright...

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories is a collection of short semi-comic mystery stories that were written by Oscar Wilde and published in 1891. It includes: ″Lord Arthur Savile's Crime″ ″The Canterville Ghost″ ″The Sphinx Without a Secret″ ″The Model Millionaire″...

In this story Oscar Wilde used no humans as a characters but inanimate objects, fireworks. Fireworks that are waiting in a castle to be set off after a wedding night. On very self-concerned rocket is to be saved as the finale and speaks the most through the story. He speaks quite highly of himself...

When the Selfish Giant decides to build a wall around his garden to prevent the children from playing in it, it becomes barren and stuck in perpertual winter. It takes a wonderful event and the heart of a young boy for him to realize the error of his ways. A classic tale for children, 'The Selfish Giant'...

O Retrato de Dorian Gray (no original em inglês, The Picture of Dorian Gray) é um romance publicado por Oscar Wilde, considerado um dos grandes escritores irlandeses do século XIX. Dorian Gray é um jovem que se envaidece de si mesmo, que se torna amante de si mesmo e da arte abstrata e pura, e...