Mrs. marchmont. Going on to the Hartlocks' tonight, Margaret?

lady basildon. I suppose so. Are you?

mrs. marchmont. Yes. Horribly tedious parties they give, don't they?

lady basildon. Horribly tedious! Never know why I go. Never know why I go anywhere.

mrs. marchmont. I come here to be educated.

lady basildon. Ah! I hate being educated!

mrs. marchmont. So do I. It puts one almost on a level with the commercial classes, doesn't it? But dear Gertrude Chiltern is always telling me that I should have some serious purpose in life. So I come here to try to find one.

lady basildon. [Looking round through her lorgnette.] I don't see anybody here tonight whom one could possibly call a serious purpose. The man who took me in to dinner talked to me about his wife the whole time.

An Ideal Husband

Quels rapports existent-ils entre un dandy comme Oscar Wilde et un ermite oriental, un auteur de pièces à succès et un saint rustique, l'ascétisme de l'un et l'hédonisme de l'autre oe
Cet éloge percutant de Tchouang-tseu, l'un des plus grands penseurs taoistes ; nous en apprend autant sur le compte de l'auteur de Dorian Gray que sur celui de son modèle, le « sage chinois ». Voici donc la rencontre inattendue, et pleine d'esprit, de deux tempéraments anticonformistes avant toute chose.

Un sage chinois

Un apres-midi, j'etais assis a la terrasse du cafe de la Paix, contemplant la splendeur et les dessous de la vie parisienne. Tout en prenant mon vermouth, j'etudiais avec curiosite l'etrange panorama ou l'orgueil et la pauvrete defilaient devant moi, quand je m'entendis appeler par mon nom. Je fis demi-tour et je me vis en face de lord Murchison. Nous ne nous etions pas revus depuis que nous avions ete au college ensemble, il y avait dix ans de cela. Aussi fus-je charme de cette rencontre. Nous echangeames une chaude poignee de main. A Oxford, nous avions ete grands amis. Je l'aimais enorme-ment. Il etait si bon, si plein d'entrain, si plein d'honneur. Nous disions souvent de lui qu'il serait le meilleur garcon du monde sans son penchant a dire toujours la verite, mais je crois que reellement nous ne l'en admirions que davantage pour sa franchise. Je le trouvai bien un peu change."

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Poésie et fantastique se mêlent dans cette histoire d'hébergement par une famille londonienne d'un fantôme appelé sir Simon de Canterville. Mais les rôles sont inversés et ce sont les enfants de cette respectable famille qui sèment la terreur et tentent de faire fuir le fantôme.

Le Fantôme De Canterville Et Autres Nouvelles (French Edition)

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.

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A la fin du XIXe siècle, le mythe de Salomé suscite chez les artistes une fascination à nulle autre pareille : la princesse de Judée, qui incarne la femme " naturelle, c'est-à-dire abominable " selon le mot de Baudelaire, devient une figure majeure de l'imaginaire décadent, inspirant indifféremment peintres, poètes et romanciers. De cette danseuse fatale, Wilde donna dans Salomé (1893) l'une des interprétations les plus marquantes de l'histoire de la littérature. La tension croissante de ce drame en un acte traduit la montée du désir monstrueux de Salomé, la fille d'Hérodias, pour le prophète Iokanaan. Cruauté, sacrilège, étrangeté et érotisme se mêlent dans cette pièce dont Mallarmé salua les perpétuels traits éblouissants et dont Pierre Loti a pu dire : " C'est beau et sombre comme un chapitre de l'Apocalypse.”

Salomé

In love with a mysterious woman, Lord Murchison one day follows her in order to learn her secrets. But when, after the lady's death, her secret is revealed, Murchison is left to ponder its meaning. 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 Sphinx Without A Secret - Short Story

La présente édition propose au lecteur de plonger au coeur de l'oeuvre d'Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) - des contes, histoires et nouvelles qu'il écrit et publie jusqu'au grand roman Le Portrait de Dorian Gray, version moderne du mythe de Faust. Le volume est enrichi des illustrations de F. H. Townsend (Le Fantôme des Canterville et Le Crime de Lord Arthur Savile), de Walter Crane et George Percy Jacomb-Hood (Le Prince Heureux et autres contes) et de Charles Ricketts (Une maison de grenades) , toutes parues du vivant de l'auteur. Wilde, qui "pense en contes" , n'a jamais cessé de raconter. Aux contes, histoires et nouvelles célèbres s'ajoute, en appendice, une collection de "contes parlés" tels qu'ils sont restés dans la mémoire d'un auditoire conquis. Enfin, par les lettres de Wilde à ses proches, aux journaux, à ses détracteurs, à son amant (dans son De profundis), cette édition Quarto donne à voir combien l'esthétisme embrasse sa vie et son oeuvre.

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