The critic as artist

Featuring the entirety of Oscar Wilde's dramatic works, this collection demonstrates the author's wide range, unerring wit, and unique perspective. Bringing together Wilde's most famous plays, including The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband, and Lady Windermere's Fan, along with rare and incomplete dramas like Salome and Vera, this compendium is an important resource for any fan or student of Wilde's dramatic works. Often considered ahead of his time, the plays of Oscar Wilde continue to resonate with modern audiences and many have been adapted for film and television, including the 2002 film The Importance of Being Earnest, starring Judi Dench and Colin Firth. 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 Plays Of Oscar Wilde

"Le fantôme qui hante le manoir de Canterville depuis trois siècles est désespéré ! Les nouveaux propriétaires, de riches Américains, ne croient pas aux esprits. Vexé, le pauvre fantôme agite ses chaînes et laisse même une trace de sang dans le salon. Parviendra-t-il à prouver son existence en semant la terreur ? Un grand classique de l'humour noir, suivi du Crime de lord Arthur Savile. Edition adaptée facile à lire : malvoyance ; fatigue visuelle ; troubles de l'apprentissage ; troubles cognitifs ; troubles DYS ; dyslexie ; dysgraphie ; TDA/H ; alphabétisation, FLE. "

Le fantôme de Canterville - Suivi de 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

La maison de la courtisane: nouveaux poemes (2e edition) / Oscar Wilde; trad. de l'anglais par Albert SavineDate de l'edition originale: 1919Collection: Bibliotheque cosmopolite; 72

La Maison de la Courtisane: Nouveaux Poèmes 2e Édition

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

Le Portrait de Dorian Gray

"SALOMÉ" has made the author's name a household word wherever the English language is not spoken. Few English plays have such a peculiar history. Written in French in 1892 it was in full rehearsal by Madame Bernhardt at the Palace Theatre when it was prohibited by the Censor. Oscar Wilde immediately announced his intention of changing his nationality, a characteristic jest, which was only taken seriously, oddly enough, in Ireland. The interference of the Censor has seldom been more popular or more heartily endorsed by English critics. On its publication in book form "Salomé" was greeted by a chorus of ridicule, and it may be noted in passing that at least two of the more violent reviews were from the pens of unsuccessful dramatists, while all those whose French never went beyond Ollendorff were glad to find in that venerable school classic an unsuspected asset in their education-a handy missile with which to pelt "Salomé" and its author.

Salomé

En 1895, Oscar Wilde fut condamné à deux ans de travaux forcés pour « actes grossièrement immoraux » accomplis avec une personne de son sexe. Il purgea sa peine principalement dans la prison de Reading. C'est là qu'en juillet 1896 fut pendu le cavalier Charles Thomas Wooldridge, condamné pour le meurtre de sa jeune femme. Wilde évoque dans ce recueil l'exécution qui attend le cavalier : « Cet homme avait tué la chose qu'il aimait / Et donc il lui fallait mourir ». Il raconte également l'expérience de la prison et les douleurs de l'enfermement. Dans cette édition bilingue, la traduction de Bernard Pautrat met en lumière un poète qui rompt avec toute préciosité et retrouve les accents de Villon pour dénoncer les conditions faites aux prisonniers.

On ne présente plus Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), figure du monde littéraire anglais du XIXe siècle, célèbre tant pour ses ouvres diverses (Poèmes, Portrait de Dorian Gray, Salomé, etc.) que pour son homosexualité affiché.

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