Le Déclin du mensonge

Une famille américaine achète en Angleterre un château « hanté », dont les bruits de chaînes et les taches de sang terrorisent la région depuis des siècles. Mais que peut un pauvre fantôme contre le bon sens d'un homme d'affaires, contre les détachants super-actifs de sa femme et la malice de ses enfants, toujours prêts à lui faire des farces ?

Le fantÃ´me de Canterville et autres nouvelles

The ideals and opinions of Lord Henry Wotton, who believes that the only purpose of life is the pursuit of beauty, greatly affect the young, handsome Dorian Gray. Lamenting that one day his own good looks will diminish, Dorian offers to sell his soul if a beautiful painting of ages instead of his physical self. As Dorian pursues a hedonistic and reckless lifestyle, he soon realizes that his offer has been accepted, and with every sin he commits, the painting becomes more and more hideous. The Picture of Dorian Gray was British author Oscar Wilde's only novel. It was originally rejected by publishers for its scandalous content, and has been censored many times over the life of its publication. Since the twentieth century, The Picture of Dorian Gray has been praised as a masterpiece, and has been adapted for film and television numerous times. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

The Picture Of Dorian Gray

" Un artiste, Monsieur, n'a aucune espèce de sympathies éthiques. La vertu et la scélératesse sont simplement pour lui ce que sont pour le peintre les couleurs sur sa palette. " Oscar Wilde

Essais de littérature et d'esthétique

Wilde the writer is known to us from his plays and prose fiction, but apparently it was in his conversation that his genius reached its summit. His talk is lost and his autobiography was never written, but his letters reveal him at his spontaneous, sparkling best.

 Wilde the writer is known to us from his plays and prose fiction, yet it was in his conversation that his genius reached its summit. His talk is lost, his autobiography was never written, but his letters reveal him at his spontaneous, sparkling best.

 Of all nineteenth-century letter writers Oscar Wilde is, predictably, one of the most brilliant. Wonderfully fluent in style, the letters bear that most familiar of Wildean hallmarks - the lightest of touches for the most serious of subjects. He comments openly on his life and his work from the early years of undergraduate friendship, through his year-long lecture tour in America as a striving young 'Professor of Aesthetics', to the short period of fame and success in the early 1890s, when he corresponded with many leading political, literary and artistic figures of the time. Disgrace and imprisonment followed, but even in adversity his humour does not desert him.

 In this beautifully produced volume Merlin Holland has brought together his most revealing letters with an illuminating commentary. Together they form the closest thing we shall ever have to Wilde's own memoir.

Oscar Wilde - A Life in Letters

Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde’s story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author’s most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray’s moral disintegration caused a scandal when it ﬁrst appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel’s corrupting inﬂuence, he responded that there is, in fact, “a terrible moral in Dorian Gray.” Just a few years later, the book and the aesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trials occasioned by Wilde’s homosexual liaisons, which resulted in his imprisonment. Of Dorian Gray’s relationship to autobiography, Wilde noted in a letter, “Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be—in other ages, perhaps.

Le Portrait De Dorian Gray ;Nouvelles Fantastiques

Une petite hirondelle en route pour l'Égypte décide de passer la nuit à l'abri d'une statue dominant la ville. Couverte de minces feuilles d'or fin, des yeux faits de saphirs, un gros rubis ornant le pommeau de son épée, c'est la statue du Prince heureux. Soudain, une goutte d'eau glisse sur son aile : la statue pleure ! Le Prince heureux pleure sur les misères de sa ville...

Le prince heureux ; le géant égoïste ; et autres contes

This is Oscar Wilde's tale of the American family moved into a British mansion, Canterville Chase, much to the annoyance its tired ghost. The family -- which refuses to believe in him -- is in Wilde's way a commentary on the British nobility of the day -- and on the Americans, too. The tale, like many of Wilde's, is rich with allusion, but ends as sentimental romance. . .

Le Fantôme de Canterville

"She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses, " cried the young Student ; "but in all my garden there is no red rose. " From her nest in the holm-oak tree the Nightingale heard him, and she looked out through the leaves, and wondered. "No red rose in all my garden ! " he cried, and his beautiful eyes filled with tears. "Ah, on what little things does happiness depend ! ... "

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