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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish playwright, poet and author of numerous short stories and one novel. Known for his biting wit, and a plentitude of aphorisms, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest celebrities...

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The Duchess of Padua by the Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet,Oscar Wilde.The Duchess of Padua is a play,it is a five-act melodramatic tragedy set in Padua and written in blank verse. It was written for the actress Mary Anderson in early 1883 while in Paris. After she turned it down,...

Nous perçumes le bruit cadencé de pas de danseurs; nous suivîmes, en flanant, la rue éclairée par la lune et nous arrêtâmes devant la maison de la Courtisane. De l'intérieur, à travers le tumulte, le désordre, nous entendions les musiciens jouer à grand bruit le Coeur cher et fidèle de...

Être entraîné à la dérive de toute passion jusqu'à ce que mon âme devienne un luth aux cordes tendues dont peuvent jouer tous les vents, c'est pour cela que j'ai renoncé à mon antique sagesse, à l'austère maîtrise de moi-même. A ce qu'il me semble, ma vie est un parchemin sur lequel on...

EXTRAIT: Il y a un an, je respirais l'air de l'Italie,- et pourtant, il est beau, ce me semble, ce printemps du Nord, avec ces campagnes que dore la fleur de mars, le sansonnet qui chante sur le bouleau velouté, les freux qui croassent, les ramiers des bois qui voltigent de ci de là,...

Eine reiche amerikanische Familie erwirbt trotz Warnung vor dem Hausgespenst das englische Schloss Canterville. Der aristokratische Geist wird von den neuen Besitzern des Anwesens zur Verzweiflung gebracht. Mit blutigen Flecken am Boden vor dem Kamin und einer Abfolge von unheimlichen Geräuschen hat...

Cando o embaixador norteamericano Hiram B. Otis resolveu comprar o pazo de Canterville, todos lle foron co conto de que cometía un grande erro porque a casa estaba enmeigada. O propio Lord Canterville sentiuse na obriga de avisalo de que aquela pantasma lles aparecera aos seus familiares, que pasaban...

‘As to my personal attitude towards criticism, I confess in brief the following:—“If my works are good and of any importance whatever for the further development of art, they will maintain their place in spite of all adverse criticism and in spite of all hateful suspicions attached to my artistic...

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the circumstances...

Krallardan cücelere... Yıldızlardan çocuklara... Mutlu Prens adı altındaki masalların bu ikinci cildinde, Oscar Wilde'ın, insan yaşamına ve dünya düzenine yönelik duygu ve düşüncelerini, büyülü masal dünyasındaki karakterleri aracılığıyla keşfe çıkıyoruz. Küçük...

Bir zamanlar mutlu bir prens varmış...Oscar Wilde'ın klasikleşmiş Mutlu Prens kitabını,aslına sadık olması amacıyla ikiye böldük. Bu ilk kitapta okuyacağınız dört masalda, insan yaşamını güzellikve çirkinliğin, sevgi ile bencilliği savaşı olarak görenyazarın samimi dilini...

De profundis Author: Oscar Wilde Vertaald door P.C. Boutens

Wilde’s meditation on capital punishment, the Ballad of Reading Gaol comes after he was convicted and imprisoned under charges of gross indecency. The charges stemmed from his affair with Lord Alfred Douglas, the son of the Marquis of Queensberry. It relates the story of an execution of a man who...