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Oscar Wilde's audacious drama of social scandal centres around the revelation of Mrs Arbuthnot's long-concealed secret. A house party is in full swing at Lady Hunstanton's country home, when it is announced that Gerald Arbuthnot has been appointed secretary to the sophisticated, witty Lord Illingworth. Gerald's mother stands in the way of his appointment, but fears to tell him why, for who will believe Lord Illingworth to be a man of no importance?

De Profundis (Latin: "from the depths") is an epistle written by Oscar Wilde during his imprisonment in Reading Gaol, to Lord Alfred Douglas.

These special fairy tales, which Oscar Wilde made up for his own sons, include The Happy Prince, who was not as happy as he seemed; 'The Selfish Giant', who learned to love little children; 'The Star Child', who suffered bitter trials when he rejected his parents. . . . Often whimsical and sometimes sad, they all shine with poetry and magic.

Basil Hallward es un artista que queda enormemente impresionado por la belleza estética de un joven llamado Dorian Gray y comienza a encapricharse con él, creyendo que esta belleza es la responsable de la nueva forma de su arte. Basil pinta un retrato del joven. Charlando en el jardin de Basil, Dorian conoce a Lord Henry Wotton, un amigo de Basil, y empieza a cautivarse por la vision del mundo de Lord Henry.

La importancia de llamarse Ernesto se entrenó en 1895, con un subtítulo clarificador: “comedia banal para gente muy seria”. toda la obra es un gran juego de acciones y lenguaje, aprovechando los dobl

Esta edición presenta seis de los cuentos más conocidos de oscar wilde, entre los que destacan títulos como el fantasma de canterville, el príncipe feliz o el ruiseñor y la rosa. escritos en una impecable prosa, estos breves relatos constituyen una muestra del talento narrativo del autor. el lector accedera a un conjunto de cuentos en los que se entremezclan el humor, la ironia, la generosidad y el desengaño. todo un muestrario de sentimientos humanos que sin duda conmueven y deleitan.

A nightingale overhears a student complaining that his professors daughter will not dance with him, as he is unable to give her a red rose. The nightingale visits all the rose-trees in the garden, and one of the white roses tell her that theres a way to produce a red rose, but only if the nightingale is prepared to sing the sweetest song for the rose all night, and sacrifice her life to do so. Seeing the student in tears, the nightingale carries out the ritual, and impales herself on the rose-trees thorn so that her hearts blood can stain the rose. The student takes the rose to the professors daughter, but she again rejects him because another man has sent her some real jewels, and "everybody knows that jewels cost far more than flowers." The student angrily throws the rose into the gutter, returns to his study of metaphysics, and decides not to believe in true love anymore.

This ebook contains all of Oscar Wildes plays (including the fragments), his only novel, his fairy tales and short stories, the poems, all of his essays, lectures, reviews, and other newspaper articles, based on the 1909 edition of his works.For easier navigation, there are tables of contents for each section and one for the whole volume. At the end of each text there are links bringing you back to the respective contents tables. I have also added an alphabetical index for the poems and a combined one for all the essays, lectures, articles, and reviews.-------------------------------------Contents:THE PLAYS.Vera or the Nihilists, The Duchess of Padua, Lady Windermeres Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, The Importance of Being Earnest, Salome (the French original and Bosies translation, and the fragments of La Sainte Courtisane and A Florentine Tragedy.THE NOVEL.The Picture of Dorian Gray.THE STORIES.All the stories and tales from The Happy Prince and Other Tales, Lord Arthur Saviles Crime and Other Stories (incl. The Portrait of Mr. W.H.), and A House of Pomegranates.THE POEMS.The Collected Poems of O.W.THE ESSAYS etc.The four essays from Intentions, The Soul of Man under Socialism, De Profundis (the unabridged version!), The Rise of Historical Criticism, the lectures (The English Renaissance in Art, House Decoration, Art and the Handicraftsman, Lecture to Art Students)

Spellbound before his own portrait, Dorian Gray utters a fateful wish. In exchange for eternal youth he gives his soul, to be corrupted by the malign influence of his mentor, the aesthete and hedonist Lord Henry Wotton. The novel was met with moral outrage by contemporary critics who, dazzled perhaps by Wilde's brilliant style, may have confused the author with his creation, Lord Henry, to whom even Dorian protests, 'You cut life to pieces with your epigrams.'. Encouraged by Lord Henry to substitute pleasure for goodness and art for reality, Dorian tries to watch impassively as he brings misery and death to those who love him. But the picture is watching him, and, made hideous by the marks of sin, it confronts Dorian with the reflection of his fall from grace, the silent bearer of what is in effect a devastating moral judgement.

Desde el alto pedestal que ocupa en el centro de la ciudad, El príncipe feliz, una estatua recubierta de oro y piedras preciosas, puede contemplar la miseria y el dolor de los más pobres y desprotegidos. Solo una golondrina que ha extraviado su rumbo, puede comunicarse con el princuoe y compartir su tristeza. Aplazando su migracion y poniendo en peligro su vida, la golondrina ayudara al principe a socorrer a los pobres y mitigar su dolor.

Tr.: Albert Savine

Translator: Albert Savine

Oscar Wilde (Dublín, 1854-París, 1900) poseía un sentido del humor y una extraordinaria personalidad, adornada por un cierto barniz de preciosismo decadente, que le abrieron muy pronto las puertas de los circulos literarios de Londres y Paris, ciudad en la que fijaria su residencia a partir de 1882. Este volumen ofrece toda su narrativa breve, pequeñas joyas literarias que el calificaba de estudios en prosa, pensadas tanto para niños como para adultos. Sus primeros relatos (El principe feliz, El ruiseñor y la rosa...), con ecos de Andersen, Hoffmann y la tradicion popular, son fabulas de exquisita prosa, cuyo encanto reside en la ingenuidad y la bondad que exaltan. En El crimen de lord Arthur Savile y otras historias, entre las que destaca el famoso relato El fantasma de Canterville, Wilde da rienda suelta a su vena satirica y humoristica, mientras que en La casa de granadas, influido por el simbolismo decadente frances, se muestra morbido, pagano y sensual, caminando triunfal por la belleza. Al final de su vida, vio derrumbarse su mundo de lujo y escarlata y adopto una etica franciscana, casi a la mistica, al lado de los humildes y los marginados. Falto de estimulo creador, y decepcionado ante el mundo, acabo convertido en uno de sus personajes y murio abandonado, tras alcanzar la bondad despues de una vida de fasto y fulgor.

Translator: Albert Savine