Wilde: 1747 books

Selection includes The Portrait of Mr W.H., Wilde's defence of Dorian Gray, reviews, and the writings from 'Intentions' (1891): 'The Decay of Lying, 'Pen, Pencil, Poison', and 'The Critic as Artist'. Wilde is familiar to us as the ironic critic behind the social comedies, as the creator of the beautiful...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.’ Including some of Oscar Wilde’s most well-known and infamous plays, Lady Windermere’s...

A fashionable young man sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty in Oscar Wilde's fascinating gothic tale. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde’s only full-length novel, is the enduringly eerie story of a naïve and irresistible young man lured by decadent Lord Henry Wotton into a life...

'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' by Edgar Allan Poe Decades before Sherlock Holmes, American author Edgar Allan Poe created the detective story in this remarkable trilogy of short stories featuring genius French criminologist C. Auguste Dupin. 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' represents...

«Oscar Wills Wilde (1854 – 1900) was an Irish author, playwright and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he started to consider one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s.  Oscar Wilde created an astonishing amount of work, genius, and controversy...

During his life Oscar Wilde was as famous for his flamboyant lifestyle as he now is for his literary legacy.  Persecuted for his homosexuality, which at the time was illegal in the United Kingdom, Wilde is now considered to be one of the most perceptive social commentators of his era, applying...

8 Oeuvres de Oscar Wilde Ce livre numérique présente une collection des oeuvres majeures de Oscar Wilde éditées en texte intégral. Une table des matières dynamique permet d'accéder directement aux différentes oeuvres. Traductions...

Ignoré (très volontairement) pendant longtemps de ses biographes, Teleny est pourtant un des meilleurs romans d'Oscar Wilde, en tout cas celui où il livre le plus librement sa nature sexuelle profonde et contradictoire. Conçu semble-t-il au début comme une sorte de jeu littéraire érotique avec...

L’Âme de l'homme sous le socialisme d’Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) fut publié pour la première fois à Londres dans la Fortnightly Review, en 1891. L’auteur est devenu célèbre l’année précédente, avec la parution du Portrait de Dorian Gray. Dans la préface de ce roman, Wilde développe...

Salome is an 1891 play by Oscar Wilde about a princess whose passions are legendary. The actual story is from the book of Matthew, about the stepdaughter of Herod. Salome dances the Dance of the Seven Veils for Herod's birthday feast, and he enjoys it so much that he offers to give her whatever she...

Le Crime de lord Arthur Savile, ici traduit en français pour la première fois, est, dans l'oeuvre d'Oscar Wilde, une des pages les plus curieuses. Quand cette nouvelle parut, en 1891, dans le sillage triomphal du Portrait de Dorian Gray, la critique anglaise ne fut frappée...

Los cuentos de Oscar Wilde y Charles Dickens son una obligada lectura para niños y adultos. Su belleza literaria, y sus enseñanzas morales han hecho de éstos cuentos verdaderos clásicos. El propio Wilde, confiesa que estos cuentos infantiles son un gozo para aquellos que conservan su niño...

Oltre ai romanzi, oltre agli aforismi, oltre agli scandali che ne segnarono la vita e ne indirizzarono la produzione artistica, Wilde fu anche un eccellente scrittore di fiabe. In questo caso leggerete quattro favole che il celebre autore irlandese scrisse per i propri figli, con il preciso intento...

Il De Profundis è una lunga lettera a Lord Alfred Douglas, il giovane amato da Wilde, scritta nei primi mesi del 1897 nel carcere di Reading dove Wilde si trovava da quasi due anni per il reato di sodomia. E'l'opera che ci permette di accostarci al vero mondo dell'autore, di riconoscere l'uomo e...