Ce jeune dandy cherchait à être quelqu'un, plus qu'à faire quelque chose. Il comprenait que la vie elle-même est un art ayant ses propres styles, tout comme les arts qui cherchent à l'exprimer. Thomas Griffith Wainewright (1794-1847) fut une figure clé du Londres littéraire des années 1820. Ami de nombreux écrivains et poètes, il fut critique d'art, chroniqueur, collectionneur... mais il fut aussi escroc, faussaire et empoisonneur, et c'est à ce titre qu'il entra dans la postérité, sous la plume de Wilde. Cet esprit brillant et pervers, personnage fin-de-siècle avant l'heure, connut une chute aussi brutale que son ascension fut rapide. Le destin de ce dandy assassin ne pouvait que fasciner Oscar Wilde, qui en dresse ici un portrait subtil et nuancé.

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This carefully crafted ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents of the complete works of Oscar Wilde, containing more than 150 works.
Content:
The Plays: Vera, The duchess of Padua, Lady Windermere's fan, A Woman of no importance, Salomé, Selome (English Version), An ideal husband, The importance of being earnest.
The Poetry: more than 100 poems.
The Novel: The picture of Dorian Gray, including the revised 20 chapter version.
The Short Stories: The Portrait of Mr. W. H., The happy prince and other tales, A house of pomegranates, Lord Arthut Savile's crime and other stories.The non-fiction: The decay of lying, Pen, Pencil and poison - a study in green, The critic as artist, The truth of masks, The rise of historical criticism, The english renaissance of art, House decoration, Art and the handicraftsman, Lecture to art students, London models, Poems in prose, The soul of man under socialism, Phrases and philosophies for the use of the young, A few maxims for the instruction of the over-educated, De Profundis, Oscar Wilde's letter to Robert Browning, Personal impressions of America, The decorative arts, The house beautiful, The truth of masks.
The journalism: A handbook to marriage, A ride through morocco, Aristotle at afternoon tea, Balzac in english, Dinners and dishes, Hamlet at the lyceum, London models, Mr. Morris on tapestry, Mr. Whistler's ten o'clock, Mrs. Langtry as Hester Grazebrook, Olivia at the lyceum, The american invasion, Two biographies of Keats, Two letters to the Daily Chronicle, Woman's dress.
Apocrypha: Teleny.
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 - 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams and plays, and the circumstances of his imprisonment which was followed by his early death. At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). The opportunity to construct aesthetic details precisely, and combine them with larger social themes, drew Wilde to write drama. He wrote Salome (1891) in French in Paris but it was refused a licence. Unperturbed, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London. At the height of his fame and success, while his masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), was still on stage in London, Wilde had the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, prosecuted for libel, a charge carrying a penalty of up to two years in prison. The trial unearthed evidence that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own arrest and trial for gross indecency with other men. After two more trials he was convicted and imprisoned for two years' hard labour. In 1897, in prison, he wrote De Profundis which was published in 1905, a long letter which discusses his spiritual journey through his trials, forming a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure. Upon his release he left immediately for France, never to return to Ireland or Britain. There he wrote his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life. He died destitute in Paris at the age of forty-six.

The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: +150 Works in 1 eBook

"The portrait of Mr W.H." is a short story written by Oscar Wilde and published  in Blackwood's magazine in 1891. The story is the attempt by Oscar Wilde to  uncover the identity of W.H., the mysterious individual to whom Shakespeare  dedicates his Sonnets. Is Wilde's The portrait of Mr W.H. a beautiful theory,  the most spectacular literary essay ever written, or has Wilde found the answer  to one of the most famous English mysteries? Discover The portrait of Mr W.H.  with its original preface and biography in this new edition by Les Éditions de  Londres.

The Portrait of Mr W.H.

«Mr. Otis commença à soupçonner qu'il avait été trop dogmatique dans sa dénégation de l'existence des spectres.» Depuis des siècles, Sir Simon, fantôme de son état, règne sur le manoir de Canterville Chase en terrorisant ses habitants. Mais son numéro d'épouvante, pourtant bien rôdé, est compromis par l'arrivée de nouveaux propriétaires : la turbulente famille Otis. Avec esprit et finesse, Oscar Wilde s'empare du fantastique pour en parodier les codes et s'amuse, dans un joyeux choc des cultures, à renvoyer dos à dos le romantisme superstitieux de l'Angleterre et le matérialisme tenace du Nouveau Monde. Ce recueil rassemble Le Fantôme de Canterville, Le Prince Heureux, Le Géant égoïste, L'Ami dévoué et Le Rossignol et la Rose. • Objet d'étude : La fiction pour interroger le réel • Dossier pédagogique spécial nouveaux programmes • Prolongement : Découvrir une nouvelle fantastique (Le Portrait ovale, E. A. Poe). Classe de quatrième.

Le fantôme de Canterville et autres contes

(Une grande terrasse dans le palais d'Hérode donnant sur la salle de festin. Des soldats sont accoudés sur le balcon. A droite il y a un énorme escalier. A gauche, au fond, une ancienne citerne entourée d'un mur de bronze vert. Clair de lune.)

LE JEUNE SYRIEN

Comme la princesse Salomé est belle ce soir !

LE PAGE D'HÉRODIAS

Regardez la lune. La lune a l'air très étrange. On dirait une femme qui sort d'un tombeau.

Fruit d'une sélection réalisée au sein des fonds de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, Collection XIX a pour ambition de faire découvrir des textes classiques et moins classiques dans les meilleures éditions du XIXe siècle.

Salomé - Drame en un acte

It was the night before the day fixed for his coronation, and the young King was sitting alone in his beautiful chamber. His courtiers had all taken their leave of him, bowing their heads to the ground, according to the ceremonious usage of the day, and had retired to the Great Hall of the Palace, to receive a few last lessons from the Professor of Etiquette; there being some of them who had still quite natural manners, which in a courtier is, I need hardly say, a very grave offence.

The lad-for he was only a lad, being but sixteen years of age-was not sorry at their departure, and had flung himself back with a deep sigh of relief on the soft cushions of his embroidered couch, lying there, wild eyed and open mouthed, like a brown woodland Faun, or some young animal of the forest newly snared by the hunters.

And, indeed, it was the hunters who had found him, coming upon him almost by chance as, bare limbed and pipe in hand, he was following the flock of the poor goatherd who had brought him up, and whose son he had always fancied himself to be. The child of the old King?s only daughter by a secret marriage with one much beneath her in station-a stranger, some said, who, by the wonderful magic of his lute-playing, had made the young Princess love him; while others spoke of an artist from Rimini, to whom the Princess had shown much, perhaps too much honour, and who had suddenly disappeared from the city, leaving his work in the Cathedral unfinished-he had been, when but a week old, stolen away from his mother's side, as she slept, and given into the charge of a common peasant and his wife, who were without children of their own, and lived in a remote part of the forest, more than a day's ride from the town.

A House of Pomegranates

HÉRODE 

Salomé, Salomé, dansez pour moi. Je vous supplie de danser pour moi. Ce soir je suis triste. Oui, je suis très triste ce soir. Quand je suis entré ici, j'ai glissé dans le sang, ce qui est d'un mauvais présage, et j'ai entendu, je suis sûr que j'ai entendu un battement d'ailes dans l'air, un battement d'ailes gigantesques. Je ne sais pas ce que cela veut dire... Je suis triste ce soir. Ainsi

dansez pour moi. Dansez pour moi, Salomé, je vous supplie. Si vous dansez pour moi, vous pourrez me demander tout ce que vous voudrez et je vous le donnerai. Oui, dansez pour moi, Salomé, je vous donnerai tout ce que vous me demanderez, fût-ce la moitié de mon royaume. 

SALOMÉ, se levant. 

Vous me donnerez tout ce que je vous demanderai, tétrarque ?

Salomé

Le fantôme des Canterville a fort à faire pour prouver à la famille Otis qu'il peut faire peur : entre les blagues des insupportables jumeaux et les pièges que lui tend le fils aîné, il n'a guère le temps de se montrer aussi terrifiant qu'il le souhaiterait... Savoureux pastiche des romans gothiques, Le Fantôme des Canterville est suivi de deux autres contes tout aussi cocasses et tendres : Le Sphinx sans secret et Le Millionnaire modèle.

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