Oscar Wilde: 993 books

Un cuento de Wilde que habla el encanto de una mujer cuyo unico screto es no tener secretos, y aue aun asi no porello deja de tener atractivo.

'A Trivial Comedy for Serious People': its subtitle is the best summary of a play that is the theatrical equivalent of a butterfly. The verbal brilliance of its highly self-conscious characters hides deep anxieties about social and personal identity: Jack Worthing, found as a baby in a handbag at...

This Victorian comedy of manners sparkles with Wilde's trademark repartee, epigrams, and witty dialogue. Arch-moralist Lady Windermere, shattered by the suspicion of her husband’s infidelity, contemplates running off with a roué until her rival illustrates the difference between morality and its appearance. A comic masterpiece, studded with humorous quips and clever paradoxes.

A collection of stories, including two of Wilde's most famous: 'The Canterville Ghost', in which a young American girl helps to free the tormented spirit that haunts an old English castle and 'The Happy Prince*',* who was not as happy as he seemed. Often whimsical and sometimes sad, they all shine with poetry and magic.

Rowohlt E-Book Theater Jack und Algernon sind zwei wohlhabende Gentlemen. Ihre abstrusen Doppelleben in der Stadt und auf dem Lande stürzt sie sowie Algernons Cousine Gwendolen und Jacks Pflegetochter Cecily in ein Schlamassel gegenseitiger Verwechslungen und falscher Erwartungen. Die Kombination...

"Sechs neu übersetzte Kurzgeschichten aus der klassischen Periode - sie umspannen in ihrer Entstehung etwa den Zeitraum zwischen 1835 und 1912 - stellen in dieser Sammlung den angloamerikanischen Beitrag zur literarischen Gattung der Gespenstergeschichte vor. Ziel der Anthologie ist die Präsentation...

One of Wilde's most successful and most frequently revived plays, An Ideal Husband has divided critics more than any other. Treating political intrigue, financial fraud, blackmail, scandal and spin, and the role of women in public life, it is a play which engaged with issues of vital importance to its late-Victorian audience, which continue to resonate today.

The Importance of Being Earnest is one of the most enduringly popular of British comic dramas, and a mainstay of English literature and drama courses at college and university level. This is an ideal edition for students with on-page notes to help clarify meaning, and a completely new introduction....

Se trata de una colección de maxims, consejos e ideas de Wilde que en su mentalidad tipicamente católica represntan algo como la sal de la tierra. Un punto de vista muy personal de una guía para la vida.

Wilde presented us with the utopia of beauty, of love, of freedom. So let's enjoy the dreamlike poems!

“(T)he past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.” Published originally as “The Soul of Man Under Socialism,” this is not so much a work of sober political analysis; rather it can be summed up as a rhapsodic manifesto...

The story of the Canterville Ghost takes place in an old English country house, Canterville Chase, which has all the accoutrements of a traditional haunted house. Descriptions of the wainscoting, the library panelled in black oak, and the armour in the hallway characterize the Gothic setting. Wilde...

Posséder, quitte à détruire... L'amour sans l'amour, juste posséder l'autre, satisfaire la pulsion, nourrir ses instincts... Que cherche la Salomé de Wilde ? C'est elle, qu'elle cherche, elle seule, c'est elle qu'elle cherche mais qu'elle fuit également, et pour cela s'enfonce sans cesse...

Uno dei dialoghi wildeiani di più rilevante peso teorico, La decadenza del mentire (1898) rappresenta il manifesto dell’antinaturalismo e il più importante contributo dell’irlandese al dibattito sul rapporto tra valore dell’arte e ruolo dell’uomo nel mondo. La più grande aspirazione umana,...