Le Portrait de Dorian Gray a été rédigé en 1890 puis complété en 1891. Ce roman fantastique est à la fois un manifeste esthétique et un récit moral. Bien qu'Oscar Wilde y développe l'idée d'un art dégagé de toute éthique, le jeune Dorian Gray va faire face à sa conscience morale à travers son portrait qui porte à sa place les traces de sa perversité et la décadence que le temps inflige aux esprits les plus purs.

Le portrait de Dorian Gray

Dorian Gray est un jeune dandy d'une rare beauté. L'un de ses ami et peintre, Basil Hallward, décide de faire son portrait et, fasciné par ce modèle, parvient au paroxysme de son art. Dorian Gray, lui-même, tombe amoureux de son propre reflet. Il fait ainsi le vœu de conserver l'éclat de sa jeunesse, et le portrait accuse l'outrage du temps à sa place... Le Portrait de Dorian Gray est l'unique roman d'Oscar Wilde. Il est publié dans sa version définitive en avril 1891. Sa parution déchaîna les passions et heurta de front la prude société victorienne qui ne vit dans ce conte fantastique et philosophique que l'immoralité du héros. C'est pourtant cette variante du mythe de Faust qui fera le succès d'Oscar Wilde.

Le Portrait de Dorian Gray d'Oscar Wilde

When an illegitimate shepherd is revealed as the only heir to a unnamed country, the truth of the young boy's coronation regalia is revealed to him through three nightmares. With this in mind, the new king fashions a new coronation costume. 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 Young King - Short Story

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

Oscar Wilde, dont le nom complet est Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, est un ecrivain irlandais, ne a Dublin le 16 octobre 1854 et mort a Paris le 30 novembre 1900. Ne dans la bourgeoisie irlandaise et protestante de Dublin, d'un pere ophtalmologiste renomme et d'une mere poetesse, Oscar Wilde se distingue par un parcours scolaire brillant. Nourri de culture classique, couronne de prix au sein du Trinity College de Dublin, il integre le Magdalene College de l'universite d'Oxford, ou il se construit un personnage d'esthete et de dandy, sous l'influence des preraphaelites et des theories de L'art pour l'art de Walter Pater, John Ruskin ou Whistler. A l'issue de ses etudes, Wilde s'installe a Londres, ou il parvient a s'inserer dans la bonne societe et les cercles cultives, s'illustrant dans plusieurs genres litteraires.

La Maison de la Courtisane

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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.

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The Plays: VERA, THE DUCHESS OF PADUA, LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN, A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE, SALOMÉ, SALOME (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 ARTHUR 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.

The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (more than 150 Works)

A selfish giant reforms his ways when the laughter of children brings the beauty of spring to his garden. 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 Selfish Giant - Short Story

Dorian Gray est un jeune homme d'une très grande beauté. Son ami artiste peintre Basil Hallward est obsédé par cette dernière et en tire toute son inspiration. Sa fascination pour le jeune homme le mène à faire son portrait, qui se révèle être la plus belle oeuvre qu'il ait jamais peinte, et qu'il ne souhaite pas exposer. Va naître dès lors en lui une profonde jalousie à l'égard de son propre portrait peint par Basil Hallward. Il souhaite que le tableau vieillisse à sa place pour que lui, Dorian Gray, garde toujours sa beauté d'adolescent. « Si le tableau pouvait changer tandis que je resterais ce que je suis ! ».

Le Portrait de Dorian Gray

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