"Elle m'a dit qu'elle danserait avec moi si je lui apportais des roses rouges, gémissait le jeune Etudiant. Mais dans tout mon jardin il n'y a pas une seule rose rouge". De son nid dans l'yeuse le Rossignol l'entendit et le regarda à travers le feuillage et s'étonna. "Pas de rose rouge dans tout mon jardin," s'écria l'Etudiant, et ses beaux yeux s'emplirent de larmes. "Ah ! de quelles petites choses dépend le bonheur ! J'ai lu tout ce que les sages ont écrit, et tous les secrets de la philosophie sont à moi, et pourtant faute d'une rose rouge voilà ma vie brisée".

Le Rossignol et la Rose

When Lady Windermere begins to suspect her husband of infidelity, she confronts him, accusing him of having an affair with a woman known as Mrs. Erlynne. Lord Windermere denies her accusations, but the true identity of Mrs. Erlynne is even more shocking than Lady Windermere expects. Lady Windermere's Fan has become one of Oscar Wilde's most well-known plays, and is the origin of the famous literary quote, "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." It has been adapted several times for film, most recently for the 2009 film A Good Woman, starring Helen Hunt and Scarlett Johansson. 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.

Lady Windermere's Fan

Collection « Classiques » dirigée par Michel Zink et Michel Jarrety Oscar Wilde Contes et récits En 1888, lorsque Oscar Wilde publie Le Prince heureux et autres contes, il attend de ce livre qu'il assoie une réputation encore mince - et c'est bien en effet son premier succès de librairie. Certains de ces textes sont des contes merveilleux, d'autres mettent en scène des animaux, d'autres encore sont satiriques : pages pleines d'humour où se fait jour souvent le ton joyeusement désabusé qui sera plus tard celui de ses comédies.
Cette diversité inventive et brillante se retrouve dans tous les récits des années suivantes qui se moquent du sérieux et se jouent du devoir : histoire policière avec Le Crime de Lord Arthur Savile, histoire  d'amour avec Le Fantôme des Canterville, mais histoires aussi de supercherie avec Le Millionnaire modèle et Le Portrait de Mr W. H., car la vérité n'est pas plus authentique que l'apparence. Wilde prend le parti de l'ironie et de la satire, et l'élégance l'emporte sur la morale dans un monde où rien n'échappe jamais au truquage - pas même la mort.

Ce volume comprend tous les contes et récits de Wilde : Le Prince heureux et autres contes, Une maison de grenades, Le Crime de Lord Arthur Savile et autres histoires, Le Portrait de Mr W. H.

Edition de Pascal Aquien.

Traductions de Jules Castier, Marcel Schwob, Stuart Merrill et Francis Viélé-Griffin.

Contes et recits

"Un artiste, Monsieur, n'a aucune espèce de sympathies éthiques.
La vertu et la scélératesse sont simplement pour lui ce que sont pour le peintre les couleurs sur sa palette."

Une série d'articles d'Oscar Wilde sur la peinture, la littérature, le théâtre et lui-même.

Recueil traduit par Albert Savine et préfacé par Laure Defiolles

Essais de litterature et d'esthetique

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

À 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 a 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 l'une des interpretations les plus marquantes de l'histoire de la littérature. La tension croissante de ce drame en un acte traduit la montée du desir monstreux de Salomé, la fille d'Herodias, pour le prophete Iokanaan. Cruaté, sacrilege, étrangeté et érotisme se mêlent dans cette piece 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

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

This   carefully crafted ebook: "Teleny: a pornographic novel attributed to Oscar   Wilde" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of   contents.
Teleny is an authorless and explicitly homoerotic novel often attributed to   Oscar Wilde. It is an important antithesis to the prudish idealism of the   neo-classic and neo-romantic lyric love poetry of the end of the century. It   is a work of unmasking the cynical double moral standards of the Victorian   era: The love of Camille and Teleny is shattered by social reprisals. The   book was published in 1893 in 200 copies by Leonard Smithers who praised it   as being "the most powerful and cleverly written erotic romance which   has appeared in the English language" during that era".
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) is a central figure in aesthetic writing. Wilde   was a poet, fiction writer, essayist and editor. Oscar Wilde is often seen as   a homosexual icon although as many men of his day he was also a husband and   father. Wilde's life ended at odds with Victorian morals that surrounded him.   He died in exile.

Teleny: a pornographic novel attributed to Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray is a Gothic and philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine.

Fearing the story was indecent, the magazine's editor deleted roughly five hundred words before publication without Wilde's knowledge. Despite that censorship, The Picture of Dorian Gray offended the moral sensibilities of British book reviewers, some of whom said that Oscar Wilde merited prosecution for violating the laws guarding public morality. In response, Wilde aggressively defended his novel and art in correspondence with the British press, although he personally made excisions of some of the most controversial material when revising and lengthening the story for book publication the following year.

(from wikipedia.org)

Le Rossignol et la Rose

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