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he Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People by Oscar Wilde is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St Jamess Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae to escape burdensome social obligations.Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the plays major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage, and the resulting satire of Victorian ways. Some contemporary reviews praised the plays humour and the culmination of Wildes artistic career, while others were cautious about its lack of social messages.Its high farce and witty dialogue have helped make The Importance of Being Earnest Wildes most enduringly popular play.The successful opening night marked the climax of Wildes career but also heralded his downfall. The Marquess of Queensberry, whose son Lord Alfred Douglas was Wildes lover, planned to present the writer with a bouquet of rotten vegetables and disrupt the show.Wilde was tipped off and Queensberry was refused admission. Their feud came to a climax in court when Wilde sued for libel. The proceedings provided enough evidence for his arrest, trial and conviction on charges of gross indecency. Wildes homosexuality was revealed to the Victorian public and he was sentenced to two years imprisonment with hard labour.Despite the plays early success, Wildes notoriety caused the play to be closed after 86 performances. After his release from prison, he published the play from exile in Paris, but he wrote no more comic or dramatic works.

Las tres obras seleccionadas en el presente volumen: El Fantasma de Canterville, El Pescador y su alma y El cumpleaños de la Infanta, componen una excelente muestra de narrativa corta de Oscar Wilde, un genero para el que estaba especialmente dotado y que destaca por su peso especifico en su produccion literaria.La belleza, a la que el autor consagra desde muy joven su existencia y su alma, se pasea por estas tres pequeñas muestras como el fantasma de Canterville lo hacia por los corredores del castillo. Ella es el denominador comun de estos relatos de diversa tematica e inspiracion, a ellos da vida y en ellos - y esta es la razon ultima que movio a Wilde a escribirlos - deja su marca imperecedera.

Five of Oscar Wilde''s wittiest and best-known plays, including Lady Windermere''s Fan, his first great stage success, and Lord Alfred Douglas''s translation of Salome, which Wilde originally wrote in French. Of The Importance of Being Ernest, his most famous play, Wilde wrote: ''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 studtied triviality.''

O PRÍNCIPE FELIZ E OUTRAS HISTÓRIAS é uma coleção de 1888 de histórias para crianças escrita por Oscar Wilde, onde as histórias transmitem uma apreciação para o exótico e para a beleza. O autor escre

The Happy Prince and Other Tales (or Stories) is a collection of stories specially 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".Contents Inside -The Happy Prince.The Nightingale and the Rose.The Selfish Giant.The Devoted Friend.The Remarkable Rocket.

O livro "O príncipe feliz e outras histórias" reúne três importantes contos infantis de Oscar Wilde, um reconhecido autor irlandês. Suas obras retratam as diferenças entre pessoas de diferentes real

TEATRO COMPLETO traz a produção teatral da vida do escritor Oscar Wilde, nome de um dos maiores autores da língua inglesa.Neste primeiro volume da coleção são apresentadas quatro das peças escritas p

El brillante ensayista que es Oscar Wilde, con su prosa ágil y certera, profunda y desenfadada, a menudo irónica y siempre amena y desbordante de inteligencia, nos ofrece, en estos breves ensayos sobre arte, una deliciosa muestra de su sabiduria. Wilde fue cofundador del movimiento Arts and Crafts (Artes y Oficios), que anticipo las vanguardias artisticas del siglo xx, y expone aqui las ideas centrales de una forma de ver al arte que sigue teniendo hoy pleno vigor. Preconiza la unidad espiritual de las artes y las vincula estrechamente con la artesania, devolviendo a esta la dignidad artistica y la pulsion creativa que clasicismo y romanticismo le habian negado. Vincula el arte a la vida, como algo que otorga sentido a lo cotidiano y que entraña y desentraña sus secretos; pone en relacion el arte, la arquitectura, el diseño y la artesania en sentido amplio; aborda temas como la decoracion, la escultura, la tapiceria, la impresion y la encuadernacion de libros, el diseño de ropa...En definitiva, este libro constituye un breve tratado del buen gusto, una sencilla y magistral leccion de estetica aplicada al arte, al diseño, y a nuestra vida; una invitacion a abrir los ojos a la belleza que nos rodea y a mirar la vida con la inteligencia estetica que predico Wilde.

Hey Girl... Id sell my soul for you Dorian Gray might be as pretty as a picture, but hes paid a devilishly high price for it. Hell stay drop-dead gorgeous, but theres something nasty festering in the

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)

The Happy Prince and Other Tales is a collection of five stories: The Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose, The Selfish Giant, The Devoted Friend, and The Remarkable Rocket. The Happy Prince stars the statue of the Prince, who persuades a swallow to deliver his gold and jewels to the poor and needy in his city.

Se trata de una novela con diálogos llenos de ingenio e ironía- tramados sobre una estructura novelística muy sólida, que se adé n tra en el mito de la eterna juventud. Escrita en 1891, esta obra recrea el tema de un pacto diabolico para conservar la belleza eterna.

Inspiring two films (the latest featuring Emmerdales Conner Chapman, and Shameless star, Sean Gilder), The Selfish Giant is a classic childrens fairytale from the pen of Oscar Wilde. While he might be better known for his biting wit and cynical observations, this story is both beautiful and timeless. It centres around a giant, who builds a wall around his garden in order to keep children out. As a result, his garden is frozen in perpetual winter. However, a young boy has hidden himself away there and gives the giant a chance to redeem himself. Touching and wonderfully written, this is an ideal read for children and the young at heart.