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Oscar Wilde es el Nietzsche correspondiente a la historia y cultura inglesas. En común tiene su inmenso genio, su admirable capacidad y facilidad para escribir, su cultura clásica, su potencia creadora, su estilo inconfundible, su implantacion volitiva sobre una realidad que solo es tomada en serio como plataforma para la propia afirmacion, su decision de no servir a nada y a nadie, su afirmacion, ingenua en un sentido y violenta en otro, de medir la realidad por su estatura. Frente a toda la racionalidad moderna... ellos reaccionan contra esos ideales por considerarlos determinados desde una aceptacion de la realidad soberana sobre el hombre y desde un ideal moral al que el hombre tiene que servir. Nietzsche y Oscar Wilde son los padres de la actitud postmoderna.

Classic / British English (Available March 2008) Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful politician and an honest man. He is an ideal husband for the beautiful and serious Lady Chiltern. But somebody knows a dangerous secret about Sir Robert. Can Sir Roberts charming Society friends save his job and his marriage? This Penguin Reader play is written for acting making English come alive

The Happy Prince and Other Tales (sometimes called The Happy Prince and Other Stories) is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde first published in May 1888. It contains five stories, "The Happy Prince", "The Nightingale and the Rose", "The Selfish Giant", "The Devoted Friend", and "The Remarkable Rocket". It is most famous for its title story, "The Happy Prince".

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.

Classic / British English (Available May 2008) An artist paints a picture of the young and handsome Dorian Gray. When he sees it, Dorian makes a wish that changes his life. As he grows older, his face stays young and handsome. But the picture changes. Why cant Dorian show it to anybody? What is its terrible secret?

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

A House of Pomegranates is a collection of whimisical short stories by Oscar Wilde. This collections includes the following tales: The Young King, The Birthday of the Infanta, The Fisherman and his Soul, and The Star-child. Readers of all ages will be delighted by these fanciful tales.

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

"De Profundis" trata de la vida de su autor, Oscar Wilde, desde la gloria como escritor hasta su estancia en prisión.

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.

Cuando se publicó El retrato de Dorian Gray, los críticos reaccionaron como de costumbre acusando a su autor de inmoralidad. Wilde se defendió diciendo que su novela era “una verdadera obra de arte”,

This is a story of moral corruption. A gothic melodrama, it is full of subtle impression and epigram. It touches on many of Wilde's recurring themes, such as the nature and spirit of art, aestheticis

The dramatist, critical theorist, and novelist displays his versatility and skill as a storyteller in this collection of short stories, fairy tales, and poems in prose.

Piedra de escándalo para la mojigata sociedad victoriana cuando fue publicada originalmente en el Lippincotts Monthly Magazine en junio de 1890, El retrato de Dorian Gray, que adoptaría su forma definitiva como libro al año siguiente, narra la fabula, de raiz faustica, del individuo que explora en los rincones mas oscuros de la existencia con aparente inmunidad, protegido por un retrato que va asumiendo su degradacion fisica y moral. Articulada en torno a la dialectica entre ser y apariencia, realidad e imagen, vida y arte, Oscar Wilde plasmo en ella la novela esteticista por excelencia.

En su única novela, el divino Oscar Wilde puso al día el mito de Fausto. En este caso, la víctima es Dorian Gray, un bello y joven presuntuoso a quien un amigo hace un retrato al óleo. Cuando Dorian trabe amistad con lord Henry Wotton, un cinico filosofo, este le convencera de que sus mas valiosas posesiones son su belleza y su juventud. Y a partir de ahi, su deseo de que su retrato envejezca mientras el permanezca joven se hace realidad.Estamos, simple y llanamente, ante uno de los libros mas bellos e ingeniosos de todos los tiempos.

Ognuno vede il proprio peccato in Dorian Gray afferma Oscar Wilde. La sua opera piu nota e diventata il manifesto del decadentismo e dellestetismo, ma e soprattutto uno dei romanzi piu raffinati e impetuosi mai scritti. Gli atelier di pittori, il teatro, le cene della nobilta londinese, la ricerca del piacere portata alle estreme conseguenze: questi gli ingredienti di una storia intramontabile. Dorian Gray, ossessionato dalla paura di perdere la bellezza, lunica risorsa per cui valga la pena di vivere, ottiene grazie a un sortilegio che il tempo non segni il suo corpo ma soltanto il suo ritratto. Cosi puo abbandonarsi agli eccessi mantenendo intatta la giovinezza e la perfezione del suo viso. Ma che ne e dellanima?