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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

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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.

«Lo único con valor en la vida es la belleza.» El joven Dorian Gray hace suya esta máxima y desea con todas sus fuerzas permanecer siempre tan hermoso como se le ve en el retrato que le ha pintado su

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".

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

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.

El rey va a casar a su hijo con una princesa rusa y prepara una gran fiesta en la que habrá de todo, incluso fuegos artificiales. En palacio reina la alegría, hasta los cohetes que serán lanzados durante la noche de la boda estan encantados de estallar con motivo de acontecimiento tan feliz. Los petardos, la girandula, la traca, la bola de fuego desean iluminar el cielo con su polvora de colores. Pero un cohete que presume de ilustres antepasados, dejandose llevar por la antipatica vanidad, a punto esta de aguar la celebracion. El dibujante Miguel Angel Martin ha elegido este cuento de Oscar Wilde para ilustrarlo a todo color y Catalina Martinez Muñoz lo ha vuelto a traducir al español para esta edicion, como maravilloso regalo destinado a los lectores.

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)

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.

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?

¿Quién ha menester de ser congruente? El aburrido y el doctrinario, que llevan sus principios al amargo fin de la acción, a la reductio ad absurdum de la práctica. No yo. Como Emerson, yo escribo sobre la puerta de mi biblioteca la palabra "capricho". Además, mi artículo es la más saludable y valiosa advertencia. Si reparan en él, puede haber un nuevo renacimiento en el arte... ¡Cuán diferente es el temple del verdadero mentiroso con sus francos, impávidos asertos, su soberbia irresponsabilidad, su sano, natural desdén por toda clase de pruebas! En resumen, ¿qué es una hermosa mentira? La que es su propia evidencia, simplemente.

In The Decay of Lying Oscar Wilde uses his decadent ideology in an attempt to reverse and therefore reject his audiences' "normal" conceptualizations of nature, art and morality. Calling on diverse examplesfrom ancient Greek sculpture to contemporary paintings Wilde's brilliant essay creates a witty, paradoxical world in which the only Art worth loving is that built on complete untruths.

Publicado dos meses después de "La importancia de no hacer nada", "La importancia de discutirlo todo" insiste en que criticar es mucho más difícil que crear y que «no hacer nada es la cosa más difícil del mundo»,reservada a un grupo de privilegiados intelectualmente. Oscar Wilde vuelve a provocar con sus ácidas reflexiones: Inglaterra «ha inventadoy establecido la opinión pública, que es un intento de organizar la ignorancia de la sociedad y de elevarla a la categoría de fuerza física». Vivimos «una época en la que las gentes son tan laboriosas que se han vuelto rematadamente estúpidas». Defiende por encima de todo la inmoralidad del arte y asegura que «sólo las teorías peligrosas tienen algo de valorintelectual. Una idea que nosea peligrosa no merece llamarse idea».

The Importance of Being Earnest is the final play of Oscar Wilde, and it is considered his masterpiece. The play is a farcical comedy with the theme of switched identities: the plays two protagonists engage in "bunburying" (the maintenance of alternative personas in the town and country) which allows them to escape Victorian social mores. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the plays major motives are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage, and the resulting satire of Victorian ways.

Salome is a tragedy by Oscar Wilde an it tells the Biblical story of Salome, stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas, who, to her stepfathers dismay but to the delight of her mother Herodias, requests the head of Jokanaan (John the Baptist) on a silver platter as a reward for dancing the dance of the seven veils. Wilde wrote Salome in French and translated it to English several years later. The play was refused a license by the Lord Chamberlain, since it was illegal to depict biblical characters. It was eventually performed in Paris, but the ban in England stood for almost forty years. This edition contains both French and English version of the play.

During his prolific career, Oscar Wilde also wrote several stories for children and fairy tales. In these stories Wilde really expressed his affection for aesthetic writing. The Happy Prince and Other Tales 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".