Oscar Wilde demuestra una vez más su maestría en las letras, esta vez a través de cinco relatos infantiles, publicados por primera vez en 1888. Relatos que se han convertido ya en historias universales como "El gigante egoísta" o "El ruiseñor y la rosa". Y como Wilde decía: "Los buenos novelistas son mucho más raros que los buenos hijos. Quizá sería lícito añadir que los buenos cuentistas son aún más raros que los buenos novelistas". Y sin duda este recopilatorio es una buena muestra de un excelente cuentista......

El príncipe feliz y otros cuentos

Wie treibt man ein Gespenst zur Verzweiflung? Die amüsante Geistergeschichte von Oscar Wilde ist ein Lesegenuss für Jung und Alt. Die Erzählung wurde sorgfältig und liebevoll editiert. Eine Einführung erläutert den historischen Hintergrund und Interpretationsansätze.

Dieser Band beinhaltet eine neue, erheblich verbesserte Übersetzung, die exklusiv für ofd edition erstellt wurde.

Das Gespenst von Canterville - Neu bearbeitet und übersetzt (Klassiker der ofd edition)

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

Abandoned as an infant and raised by a poor woodcutter, The Star-Child grows up to be vain and cruel. But when he rejects a beggar who is revealed to be his mother, The Star-Child is punished, and sets out to seek forgiveness for his actions. Victorian author Oscar Wilde is known both as a playwright and prose author. Among his most famous works are The Picture of Dorian Gray, his only novel, the plays An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, and the short story collections Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories and The Happy Prince and Other Stories. 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 Star-Child - Short Story

Mrs. Allonby. What a comfort it is to have got rid of the men for a little!

Lady Stutfield. Yes; men persecute us dreadfully, don't they?

Mrs. Allonby. Persecute us? I wish they did.

Lady Hunstanton. My dear!

Mrs. Allonby. The annoying thing is that the wretches can be perfectly happy without us. That is why I think it is every woman's duty never to leave them alone for a single moment, except during this short breathing space after dinner; without which I believe we poor women would be absolutely worn to shadows.

[Enter Servants with coffee.]

Lady Hunstanton. Worn to shadows, dear?

Mrs. Allonby. Yes, Lady Hunstanton. It is such a strain keeping men up to the mark. They are always trying to escape from us.

Lady Stutfield. It seems to me that it is we who are always trying to escape from them. Men are so very, very heartless. They know their power and use it.

Lady Caroline. [Takes coffee from Servant.] What stuff and nonsense all this about men is! The thing to do is to keep men in their proper place.

Mrs. Allonby. But what is their proper place, Lady Caroline?

Lady Caroline. Looking after their wives, Mrs. Allonby.

A Woman of No Importance

Although Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) created a wide range of poetry, essays, and fairy tales (and one novel) in his brief, tragic life, he is perhaps best known as a dramatist. His witty, clever drama, populated by brilliant talkers skilled in the art of riposte and paradox, are still staples of the theatrical repertoire.An Ideal Husband revolves around a blackmail scheme that forces a married couple to reexamine their moral standards — providing, along the way, a wry commentary on the rarity of politicians who can claim to be ethically pure. A supporting cast of young lovers, society matrons, an overbearing father, and a formidable femme fatale continually exchange sparkling repartee, keeping the play moving at a lively pace.Like most of Wilde's plays, this scintillating drawing-room comedy is wise, well-constructed, and deeply satisfying. An instant success at its 1895 debut, the play continues to delight audiences over one hundred years later. An Ideal Husband is a must-read for Wilde fans, students of English literature, and anyone delighted by wit, urbanity, and timeless sophistication.

Un mari idéal

Guido

[Taking a letter from his pocket and reading it.] "The hour noon; the city, Padua; the place, the market; and the day, Saint Philip's Day."

Ascanio

And what of the man, how shall we know him?

Guido [reading still]

"I will wear a violet cloak with a silver falcon broidered on the shoulder." A brave attire, Ascanio.

Ascanio

I'd sooner have my leathern jerkin. And you think he will tell you of your father?

Guido

Why, yes! It is a month ago now, you remember; I was in the vineyard, just at the corner nearest the road, where the goats used to get in, a man rode up and asked me was my name Guido, and gave me this letter, signed "Your Father's Friend, " bidding me be here today if I would know the secret of my birth, and telling me how to recognise the writer! I had always thought old Pedro was my uncle, but he told me that he was not, but that I had been left a child in his charge by some one he had never since seen.

The Duchess of Padua

Bello e tenebroso come un capitolo dell'Apocalisse. Pierre Loti Questa edizione contiene la traduzione in italiano, il testo originale francese e le illustrazioni di Aubrey Beardsley Cette édition contient la traduction italienne, le texte original en français et et les illustrations de Aubrey Beardsley Textes en Français/Italien - Testo in Italiano/Francese Scritto da Oscar Wilde in francese nel 1892 per la grande attrice Sarah Bernhardt e tradotto in inglese dal giovane amante dall'autore, Lord Alfred Douglas ("Bosie"), il dramma in un atto "Salomè" destò scandalo e l'intervento della censura nell'Inghilterra vittoriana. Nel 1905 fu utilizzato come testo, in forma abbreviata, per l'omonima opera di Richard Strauss, riscuotendo un successo internazionale. La mitica Salomè, figura fondamentale nell'immaginario decadente, esercitò sugli artisti dell'epoca un fascino impareggiabile, ispirando poeti, romanzieri e pittori (si pensi alla "Salomé" di Gustave Moreau). Baudelaire riteneva che la principessa di Giudea incarnasse la donna "al naturale, ossia abominevole". Di questa danzatrice fatale, Wilde ci ha lasciato una delle più importanti rappresentazioni nella storia della letteratura, in quella che è innegabilmente la sua opera teatrale più alta. La crescente tensione del dramma fa leva sull'ascesa del mostruoso desiderio di Salomè, figlia di Erodiade, per il profeta Iokanaan (Giovanni Battista). Salomè, per lo sgomento del patrigno, il tetrarca Erode Antipa, e per la gioia di sua madre Erodiade, chiede il capo di Jokanaan su un piatto d'argento come premio per aver ballato la danza dei sette veli. Crudeltà, sacrilegio, eccentricità ed erotismo si mescolano in questo dramma "dai perpetui lineamenti abbaglianti", secondo la definizione che ne diede Mallarmé, e di cui Pierre Loti ha potuto dire: "È bello e tenebroso come un capitolo dell'ApocalisseLa presente edizione, basata sulla traduzione di Carmen Margherita Di Giglio, in linea con limpida modernità dell'originale francese di Wilde, contiene anche il testo in francese e le illustrazioni che Aubrey Beardsley fornì per l'edizione inglese del 1894. In esse è rappresentata la Donna così come l'artista la percepiva, ossia erotica, perversa, prepotente e pericolosa. Considerate all'epoca inquietanti e decadenti, le illustrazioni di Bearsley prendevano di mira l'ipocrisia e il materialismo della società vittoriana, svelando un mondo in cui le donne erano in grado di vivere pienamente la loro sessualità e mettevano in luce la paura maschile nei confronti dalla superiorità femminile. Possiamo legittimamente chiederci quanto le immagini dell'illustratore inglese siano pertinenti al testo. Lo stesso Wilde le definì "degli insolenti scarabocchi fatti da un giovane studente sul margine dei suoi taccuini." Tuttavia, nel tempo, il dramma di Wilde e i disegni di Beardsley, con la loro linea grafica nitida ed essenziale e la loro sofisticata sensualità, si sono identificati l'uno con gli altri così profondamente da diventare indissolubili.

Salomè - Edizione bilingue italiano-francese

A young fisherman's life is irrevocably changed when he severs his soul in order to live underwater with his love, a beautiful mermaid. Victorian author Oscar Wilde is known both as a playwright and prose author. Among his most famous works are The Picture of Dorian Gray, his only novel, the plays An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, and the short story collections Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories and The Happy Prince and Other Stories. 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.

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