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Para entender el profundo sentimiento de búsqueda del autor al escribir, entre otros muchos, los tres cuentos seleccionados: El amigo fiel, El ruiseñor y la rosa y El millonario modelo.Selección Doce Uvas ofrece doce pequeños grandes libros cada año. Nace de las numerosas sugerencias de decenas de intelectuales que han propuesto titulos de lectura indispensable.Todos estamos en la cloaca, pero algunos miramos hacia las estrellas. Este aforismo de Wilde puede ayudar a entender el profundo sentimiento de busqueda del autor al escribir, entre otros muchos, los tres cuentos que recoge este breve volumen: El amigo fiel, El ruiseñor y la rosa y El millonario modelo.Oscar Wilde (Dublin, 1854-Paris, 1900) es uno de los dramaturgos mas destacados de la epoca victoriana tardia, ademas de poeta y escritor. Su agudo ingenio -reflejado en sus epigramas-, su extravagancia y su brillante conversacion le hizo gozar de gran celebridad. Su filosofia hedonista cambia, tras varios años en la carcel, donde experimenta una crisis espiritual. Morira indigente, a los cuarenta y siete años, tras convertirse al catolicismo.

La decadència de la mentida (1898) no és només un dels diàlegs de més abast teòric d’Oscar Wilde, sinó que representa el seu manifest antinaturalista i una contribució tan notable com polèmica, fins

Este volume traz, em edição bilíngue, cinco das nove peças escritas por Oscar Wilde - Salomé, Uma Mulher sem Importância, O Marido Ideal, Uma Tragédia Florentina e A Santa Cortesã. Salomé é um drama

Un artiste est un créateur de belles choses.Révéler lArt en cachant lartiste, tel est le but de lArt.Le critique est celui qui peut traduire dans une autre manière ou avec de nouveaux procédés limpre

A Casa das Romãs é uma coleção de contos de fadas, escrita por Oscar Wilde, que foi publicada como uma segunda coleção de O Príncipe Feliz e Outras Histórias (1892). As histórias incluídas nesta cole

. . . Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one centre of pain. The paralysing immobility of a life every circumstance of which is regulated after an unchangeable pattern, so that we eat and drink and lie down and pray, or kneel at least for prayer, according to the inflexible laws of an iron formula: this immobile quality, that makes each dreadful day in the very minutest detail like its brother, seems to communicate itself to those external forces the very essence of whose existence is ceaseless change.

O conto principal dessa edição é "O Crime de Lorde Arthur Savile" onde o protagonista é apresentado por Lady Windermere ao Sr. R. Septimus Podgers, um quiromante, que lê sua mão e lhe diz que está em

Esta obra procura reunir todos os contos de Oscar Wilde. Esta edição bilíngue reúne seus quatro livros de contos - O príncipe feliz e outros contos; O retrato do Sr. W. H.; O crime de Lorde Arthur Sa

Quando o milionário norte-americano Hiram B. Otis comprou a histórica mansão Canterville Chase, não fazia ideia que estava também adquirindo um inquilino para lá de excêntrico, Sir Simon Canterville,

Between 1891 and 1895 Oscar Wilde produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance of the 1890s, and retain their power today. The social comedies, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband offer a moving as well as witty dissection of society and its morals, with a sharp focus on sexual politics. By contrast, the experimental, symbolist Salome, written originally in French, was banned for public performance by the English censor. Wilde's final dramatic triumph was his 'trivial' comedy for serious people, The Importance of Being Earnest, probably the greatest farcical comedy in English. Aubrey Beardsley, the illustrator of Salome, emphasized the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. His contribution to the development of the Art Nouveau and poster styles was significant.

Playwright, novelist, essayist, poet and epigrammatist, Oscar Wilde was Ireland's greatest and most inspired wit. Renowned equally for his espousal of aestheticism and art for art's sake, he became notorious for his affairs with Lord Alfred Douglas and others. Today he is remembered for the brilliance of his writing, and this complete edition of his works contains all his plays, his only novel, "The Portrait of Dorian Gray, "as well as his essays, poems and stories for children, "The Happy Prince and Other Tales, "and his more worldly stories for adults, "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories. "The juxtaposition of "his jeux d'esprits "such as "The Soul of Man under Socialism "and "The Portrait of Mr. W.H. "contrast sharply with "The Ballad of Reading Gaol "and "De Profundis, "while "Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband "and "The Importance of Being Earnest "still enchant readers and theatre audiences today.

Beautiful, aristocratic, an adored wife and young mother, Lady Windermere is ''a fascinating puritan'' whose severe moral code leads her to the brink of social suicide. The only one who can save her is the mysterious Mrs Erlynne whose scandalous relationship with Lord Windermere has prompted her fatal impulse. And Mrs Erlynne has a secret - a secret Lady windermere must never know if she is to retain her peace of mind.

El niño estrella cuenta la misteriosa aparición en un bosque nevado de un niño caído del cielo, que revolucionará la aldea de leñadores que lo acogen. Wilde escribe sobre la bondad y la maldad, sobre el egoismo y sus consecuencias, sobre la lucha por enmendar los errores llevada al extremo, hasta arriesgar la propia vida; y sobre la recompensa que puede obtener esa lucha. Una recompensa material y, sobre todo, moral.

Contiene Marvel Illustrated: The Picture Of Dorian Gray 1-6 USA La adaptación al cómic del clásico inmortal escrito por Oscar Wilde. El artista Basil Hallward ha retratado a Dorian Gray, un misterio

A «Balada do Cárcere de Reading» é uma longa carta escrita por Oscar Wilde durante os dois anos em que esteve preso sob a acusação de homossexualidade. Nesta obra, Wilde divaga sobre a importância do

It is thought that a selection from Oscar Wildes early verses may be of interest to a large public at present familiar only with the always popular Ballad of Reading Gaol, also included in this volume. The poems were first collected by their author when he was twenty-six years old, and though never, until recently, well received by the critics, have survived the test of NINE editions. Readers will be able to make for themselves the obvious and striking contrasts between these first and last phases of Oscar Wildes literary activity. The intervening period was devoted almost entirely to dramas, prose, fiction, essays, and criticism.

Publicado em 1890, «O Retrato de Dorian Gray» é uma das obras-primas da literatura mundial e uma narrativa inigualável acerca da decadência moral e da perda da alma em troca dos prazeres mundanos.

Joven agraciado y bellísimo, dotado de "toda la pasión del espíritu romántico y toda la perfección de lo griego", Dorian Gray es, cuando lo retrata el distinguido pintor Basil Hallward, la encarnació