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Las 305 cartas de esta Correspondencia de Oscar Wilde son la primera colección que aparece en España de este autor y suponen el testamento biográfico más verídico para contrastar la imagen de dandy que de Wilde se ha venido creando. Se ha dado prioridad a las de mayor interés literario, a las más amenas y a las que arrojan luz sobre su vida y obra. Entre ellas, la extensa y amarga carta, conocida como De Profundis, que escribió a su amigo lord Alfred Douglas desde la prisión de Reading. Oscar Wilde (Dublín 1854-París 1900) vivió de la época victoriana el desafío de quienes estuvieron contra el puritanismo de una sociedad vengativa e hipócrita, y en él, además, se suma una excepcional sensibilidad para apreciar lo que el Arte y la Vida significaban. Jorge Luis Borges aclara que a diferencia de otros escritores que tratan de parecer profundos, Wilde, como Heine, esencialmente lo era y trataba de parecer frívolo.

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. Exponiendo un nuevo tipo de hedonismo, Lord Henry indica que "lo unico que vale la pena en la vida es la belleza, y la satisfaccion de los sentidos". Al darse cuenta de que un dia su belleza se desvanecera, Dorian desea tener siempre la edad de cuando le pinto en el cuadro Basil. El deseo de Dorian se cumple, mientras el mantiene para siempre la misma apariencia del cuadro, la figura retratada envejece por el. Su busqueda del placer lo lleva a una serie de actos de libertinaje y perversion; pero el retrato sirve como un recordatorio de los efectos de cada uno de los actos cometidos sobre su alma, con cada pecado la figura se va desfigurando y envejeciendo.

The wish spoken by Dorian Gray as he looks at his portrait forms the basis of the plot of this story of a gilded and spoilt hedonist who is willing to sell his soul for his beauty.

'To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness ...'Coming on 6 September 2002, the team behind An Ideal Husband brings us a sumptuous classic adaptation of one of Oscar Wilde's most famous and popular plays, The Importance of Being Earnest.Colin Firth, Rupert Everett, Reese Witherspoon and Dame Judi Dench as the indomitable Lady Bracknell, bring The Importance of Being Earnest alive in this new film from Fragile Films, releasing from Buena Vista International.Oscar Wilde's brilliant play makes fun of the English upper classes with light-hearted satire and dazzling humour. It is 1890's England and two young gentlemen are being somewhat limited with the truth. To inject some excitement into their lives, Mr Worthing invents a brother, Earnest, as an excuse to leave his dull country life behind him to pursue the object of his desire, the ravishing Gwendolyn. While across town Algernon Montecrieff decides to take the name Earnest, when visiting Worthing's young ward Cecily. The real fun and confusion begins when the two end up together and their deceptions are in danger of being revealed.As Wilde wrote of his most famous play:'It is exquisitely trivial, a delicate bubble of fancy, and it has its philosophy ... that we should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.'The Importance of Being Earnest is directed by Oliver Parker and produced by Barnaby Thompson.

Translator: Alex. Marpoutzoglou

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)

An amusing chronicle of the tribulations of the Ghost of Canterville Chasewhen his ancestral halls became the home of the American Minister to the Court of St. James

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)

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)

Lord Arthur Saville, un joven acaudalado y de brillante porvenir; durante una fiesta un adivino le lee el futuro en las líneas de la mano y le pronostica un vuelco inesperado: el destino le conducirá a cometer un asesinato. La vida del protagonista se trastoca por completo despues de semejante revelacion, pero su caracter decidido y tenaz pronto le lleva a buscar una solucion: decide posponer su inminente compromiso matrimonial para no perjudicar

Oscar Wilde ens permet descobrir en la bella figura de Willie Hughes el noi enciser, l’herald de primavera i la clau de volta de la força commovedora del dramaturg més cèlebre de tots els temps.

Marta Sanz (Madrid, 1967) es doctora en Filología y profesora de la Universidad Antonio de Nebrija de Madrid. Colabora con el diario El País y con el Instituto Cervantes, así como con el blog de literatura La tormenta en un vaso, la revista digital Literaturas.com y con Mercurio. Ha publicado con la editorial Debate las novelas El frio, Lenguas muertas y Los mejores tiempos (premio Ojo Critico de RNE en 2001). En 2003 publica Animales domesticos, y en 2006 queda finalista del premio Nadal con Susana y los viejos, obra que tambien es finalista del premio Salambo. Recientemente ha aparecido en la coleccion Miniletras una seleccion de tres relatos suyos titulada El canon de normalidad. Acaba de publicar una antologia de poesia española contemporanea, Metalinguisticos y sentimentales, ha recibido los premios Don Quijote, de la Asociacion de Usuarios de laBiblioteca Maria Moliner de Villaverde (Madrid), y Vargas Llosa NH de relatos en su XI edicion.

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«El crimen de lord Arthur Savile está con toda gracia más allá del Bien y del Mal. Se trata de la historia de un asesinato, pero el hecho se perpetra en un mundo que, por su misma frivolidad, no es m

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde is a philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde. A shorter novella-length version was published in the July 1890 issue of the American periodical Lippincotts Monthly Magazine. The novel-length version was published in April 1891.The story revolves around a portrait of Dorian Gray painted by Basil Hallward, a friend of Dorians and an artist infatuated with Dorians beauty.Through Basil, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton and is soon enthralled by the aristocrats hedonistic worldview: that beauty and sensual fulfillment are the only things worth pursuing in life. Newly understanding that his beauty will fade, Dorian expresses the desire to sell his soul, to ensure that the picture, rather than he, will age and fade.The wish is granted, and Dorian pursues a libertine life of varied amoral experiences while staying young and beautiful; all the while, his portrait ages and visually records every one of Dorians sins.Wildes only novel, it was subject to much controversy and criticism in its time but has come to be recognized as a classic of gothic literature.

Oscar Wilde, um dos maiores nomes da literatura do século XIX, publicou inicialmente O RETRATO DE DORIAN GRAY no periódico norte-americano Lippincotts Monthly Magazine, em 20 de junho de 1890. Esta verso original e o lançamento que a EDITORA LANDMARK promove junto aos seus leitores, em uma ediço bilingue comentada com os 13 capitulos originais publicados pela revista norte-americana, sem as alteraçes posteriores de 1891, que a editora inglesa Ward, Lock and Company exigiu para lança-lo no mercado britanico. Essas exigencias e modificaçes viriam suavizar a trama, abrandando a influencia negativa de lorde Henry e moderando o relacionamento de Gray com os demais personagens, constituindo assim uma segunda verso mais amena. Dorian Gray e um belo e ingenuo rapaz retratado pelo artista Basil Hallward em uma pintura. Mais do que um mero modelo, Dorian Gray torna-se a verdadeira inspiraço para Basil. Devido ao fato de todo seu intimo estar exposto em sua obra prima, Basil no divulga a pintura e decide presentear Dorian Gray com o quadro. Com a convivencia de lorde Henry Wotton, um cinico e hedonista aristocrata muito amigo de Basil, Dorian Gray e seduzido ao mundo da beleza e dos prazeres imediatos e irresponsaveis, espirito que foi intensificado apos, finalmente, conferir seu retrato pronto e apaixonar-se por si mesmo. A partir de ento, o aprendiz Dorian Gray supera seu mestre e cada vez mais se entrega a superficialidade e ao egoismo. O belo rapaz, ao contrario da natureza humana, misteriosamente preserva seus sinais fisicos de juventude enquanto os demais envelhecem e sofrem com as marcas da idade. O desfecho da historia e surpreendente, cujo segredo esta nO RETRATO DE DORIAN GRAY.

O RETRATO DO SR. W. H. é uma história acerca da tentativa de se descobrir a identidade do Sr. W. H., o homenageado enigmático dos sonetos de Shakespeare. Em 1609, foi publicado a primeira edição dos

Das Gespenst von Canterville von Oscar Wilde (englisch The Canterville Ghost) des irischen Schriftstellers Oscar Wilde erschien erstmals im Jahr 1887 in der Londoner Zeitschrift The Court and Society Review sie war das erste erzahlerische Werk des Schriftstellers.Als Gesellschaftssatire beginnend, fuhrt der Autor die Erzahlung im Stil einer Burleske weiter, um sie romantisch-sentimental ausklingen zu lassen. Wilde selbst bezeichnete die Erzahlung als hylo-idealistische romantische Erzahlung.Der amerikanische Botschafter Hiram B. Otis zieht mit seiner Familie in das Schloss Canterville ein, das er trotz der Warnungen vor einem Gespenst gekauft hat.Bei dem Gespenst handelt es sich um einen Vorfahren der Cantervilles, der vor etwa 300 Jahren seine Frau umgebracht hat. Dieses Familiengespenst soll fur zahlreiche Nervenzusammenbruche oder Todesfalle fruherer Besitzer verantwortlich sein.

A cambio de la eterna juventud y la conservación de su belleza, Dorian Gray, el protagonista de esta obra, establece un pacto con las fuerzas más oscuras, mediante el cual el joven aristócrata no sufriria los efectos de una sucesiva y consecuente degradacion moral y fisica. La novela constituye una profunda reflexion filosofica acerca de la naturaleza y el alma humana, al mismo tiempo que una critica a la hipocresia y al furor moralista de la Inglaterra victoriana del siglo XIX. Fuertemente criticada en su epoca, se considera una de las obras mas conocidas de Oscar Wilde.