Il était une fois, des enfants qui, chaque après-midi, en revenant de l'école, allaient jouer dans le jardin du géant, parti depuis sept ans déjà. Le jardin était ravissant. Ca-et-là poussaient poussaient de belles fleurs qui ressemblaient à des étoiles. Un jour, le géant revint et comme il était très égoiste, il fit fuir les enfants avec sa grosse voix.

Le géant égoïste

It has constantly been made a subject of reproach against artists and men of letters that they are lacking in wholeness and completeness of nature. As a rule this must necessarily be so. That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation. To those who are preoccupied with the beauty of form nothing else seems of much importance. Yet there are many exceptions to this rule. Rubens served as ambassador, and Goethe as state councillor, and Milton as Latin secretary to Cromwell. Sophocles held civic office in his own city; the humourists, essayists, and novelists of modern America seem to desire nothing better than to become the diplomatic representatives of their country; and Charles Lamb's friend, Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, the subject of this brief memoir, though of an extremely artistic temperament, followed many masters other than art, being not merely a poet and a painter, an art-critic, an antiquarian, and a writer of prose, an amateur of beautiful things, and a dilettante of things delightful, but also a forger of no mean or ordinary capabilities, and as a subtle and secret poisoner almost without rival in this or any age.

Intentions

Excerpt from La Maison des Grenades: ContesLe jeune garcon ce n'etait, en effet, qu'un jeune garcon, puisqu'il n'avait pas plus de seize ans n'etait pas fache de leur de part;il s'etait jete avec un soupir de satis faction sur les doux coussins de sa cou che brodee et demeurait la, les yeux fixes et la bouche grande ouverte, comme un faune ou comme un animal des forets tout nouvel lement capture par les chasseurs.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

La Maison Des Grenades: Contes

Ce recueil rassemble une trentaine de chroniques et d'articles publiés par Oscar Wilde entre 1877 et 1895. Voici l'auteur du Portrait de Dorian Gray à son meilleur, spirituel, brillant, cocasse et profond. Le journaliste observe la jeune Amérique. Le critique d'art s'occupe de Whistler. Le styliste dissèque une mauvaise traduction de Balzac. Le gastronome n'élude pas " l'importante question des macaronis ". Le politique réfléchit aux rapports de la poésie et du peuple. Le dandy vante les avantages de la cape courte. Le dramaturge règle ses comptes avec la censure. Ceux qui mettent la beauté au-dessus de tout seront comblés par le ton et l'optique wildiens. Paradoxal, charmeur et toujours inattendu, le théoricien de la vérité des masques n'a pas mis son génie que dans sa vie.

Aristote à l'heure du thé

This lighthearted play tells the farcical tale of Jack Worthing and Algernon Montcrieff-two men who falsely claim to be named Ernest when they fall in love with two women whose affections are illogically but irrevocably tied to the name. The Importance of Being Earnest was popular upon its debut in 1895, but the reputation of Oscar Wilde's works declined when he was imprisoned for accusations of homosexual behaviour. It was not until the twentieth century that Wilde's work was once again recognized both for its literary worth and comedic genius, and subsequently The Importance of Being Earnest has been adapted many times for film and theatre, most recently in the 2002 film starring Colin Firth, Rupert Everett, Reese Witherspoon, and Dame Judy Dench. 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 Importance Of Being Earnest - A Trivial Comedy for Serious People

«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

Paru en 1887, « Le Crime de Lord Arthur Savile » est à la fois l'une des nouvelles les plus extravagantes d'Oscar Wilde et une satire féroce de la noblesse victorienne. Il est complété par deux autres nouvelles beaucoup plus courtes parues la même année : « Le Sphinx sans Secret » et « Le Millionnaire modèle ». Trois bijoux de légèreté parfaitement représentatifs de l'oeuvre de l'un des plus célèbres écrivains irlandais.

Le crime de Lord Arthur Savile

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

In The Soul of Man under Socialism Oscar Wilde expounds on an anarchist world view. Wilde argues that under capitalism the majority of people spoil their lives by an unhealthy and exaggerated altruism-are forced, indeed, so to spoil them: instead of realizing their true talents, they waste their time solving the social problems caused by capitalism, without taking their common cause away. Thus, caring people seriously and very sentimentally set themselves to the task of remedying the evils that they see in poverty, but their remedies do not cure the disease: they merely prolong it because, the proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

Le géant égoïste

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