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Staged in 1893, when Wilde had already achieved fame, wealth and notoriety, A Woman of No Importance was another attempt to fuse comedy of manners with high melodrama. Gerald Arbuthnot is a young man on the make, with an American heiress and the post of secretary to the brilliant but dissolute Lord Illingworth within his reach. When he asks his mother to celebrate with them, it turns out that Illingworth is Gerald's father, who seduced and abandoned his mother twenty years earlier. Loyalty weighs heavier than ambition, and Gerald declines the association with Illingworth. This edition, which also analyses Wilde's various drafts and revisions of the play, argues that the playwright here continued to explore the rivalry between an older man and woman for the affection of a beautiful young man.

The Picture of Dorian Gray is a Gothic and philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of Lippincotts Monthly Magazine. Fearing the story was indecent, the magazines editor deleted roughly five hundred words before publication without Wildes knowledge. Despite that censorship, The Picture of Dorian Gray offended the moral sensibilities of British book reviewers, some of whom said that Oscar Wilde merited prosecution for violating the laws guarding public morality. In response, Wilde aggressively defended his novel and art in correspondence with the British press, although he personally made excisions of some of the most controversial material when revising and lengthening the story for book publication the following year.

El retrato de Dorian Gray (original en inglés: The Picture of Dorian Gray) es una novela que escribió el autor irlandés Oscar Wilde, publicada en el Lippincotts Monthly Magazine el 20 de junio de 1890. Posteriormente, Wilde revisaria la obra, haria varias modificaciones y agregaria nuevos capitulos.

It was Lady Windermere’s last reception before Easter, and Bentinck House was even more crowded than usual. Six Cabinet Ministers had come on from the Speaker’s Levée in their stars and ribands, all

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

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

Quan el senyor Hiram B. Otis, ministre america, va comprar Canterville Chase, tothom va advertir-li que feia una bogeria, perque no hi havia dubte que el lloc estava embruixat. Tanmateix, qui realment havia de temer l''arribada de la familia Otis era el pobre fantasma que habitava la casa, perque sempre acabava sent la joguina dels dos fills dels nous propietaris.Quan el senyor Hiram B. Otis, ministre america, va comprar Canterville Chase, tothom va advertir-li que feia una bogeria, perque no hi havia dubte que el lloc estava embruixat. Tanmateix, qui realment havia de temer l''arribada de la familia Otis era el pobre fantasma que habitava la casa, perque sempre acabava sent la joguina dels dos fills dels nous propietaris.

Era éste, y no la Afrodita de Louys, según refieren testigos confiables, el libro de tapas amarillas que Wilde tomó consigo al ser conducido a la cárcel de Reding: posiblemente, a la vez como consuelo erotico, y como explicacion simbolica de sus tragicos amores con el hijo de Lord Queensberry.Las tempestuosas relaciones entre el rico heredero Camille des Grieux y el pianista Rene Teleny, podrian, en efecto, ser consideradas una suerte de transposicion del inconfesable vinculo con Lord Alfred Oouglas, que llevo a Wilde a la carcel. Pero son, sobre todo, la plasmacion ti'pico-literaria de determinado aspecto oculto de la sociedad victoriana, que Wilde no podia ironizar en sus mas celebradas obras, por su personal y flagrante inmediatez con los hechos.Teleny, en este sentido, puede considerarse una especie de reverso o negativo de Donan Grey: todo cuanto en esta aparece nimbado de reticente y maligna perversidad, se aclara en Teleny en forma de equivocos sociales, fundados en simples deseos carnales. Lo que evidentemente condenaba al secreto a la novela en exceso explicita, que hasta fechas recientes circulo solo en ediciones privadas, de las que la primera, de 1893, es precisamente el libro de amarilla cubierta antes mencionado.En cuanto a la autoria del mismo, son varias las hipotesis barajadas por los crit...

The novel begins on a beautiful summer day with Lord Henry Wotton, a strongly-opinionated man, observing the sensitive artist Basil Hallward painting the portrait of a handsome young man named Dorian Gray, who is Basils ultimate muse. After hearing Lord Henrys world view, Dorian begins to think beauty is the only worthwhile aspect of life. He wishes that the portrait Basil painted would grow old in his place.

El crítico artista es un ensayo de Oscar Wilde que contiene las declaraciones más completas sobre su filosofía estética. Es un diálogo en dos partes, de lejos, el más extenso incluido en su colección de ensayos titulada Intenciones publicada en mayo de 1891. Es una version ampliamente revisada de articulos que aparecieron por primera vez en los numeros de julio y septiembre de la revista literaria The Nineteenth Century, titulada originalmente La

The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde, appearing as the lead story in Lippincotts Monthly Magazine on 20 June 1890, printed as the July 1890 issue of this magazine. The magazines editors feared the story was indecent as submitted, so they censored roughly 500 words, without Wildes knowledge, before publication.