The established three-act version, with excised portions of the once four-act play included in the appendix. Annotations and preface by Michael Patrick Gillespie. Background materials on London in the 1890s, Wilde and his idea of theater, and creating an audience. Contemporary reviews by George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, and others along with seven wide-ranging critical essays. A Bibliography and a Chronology of Wilde's life and work.

The importance of being Earnest

The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass.

The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass. The moral life of man forms part of the subject-matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium. No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything. Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art. From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician. From the point of view of feeling, the actor's craft is the type. All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself. We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

All art is quite useless.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

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. . .

El Fantasma De Canterville

Le crime de lord arthur savile et autres contes

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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L'Anniversaire de l'infante suivi de "L'Enfant de l'étoile"

Lisez, écoutez, écrivez ! Pocket et Nathan s'associent et proposent "Une oeuvre, une voix", une collection qui engage l'élève dans une lecture active et personnelle, à la manière d'un carnet de lecteur.

" L'expression était d'une cruauté atroce. Là, son âme même, émergeant de la toile, le dévisageait et l'appelait à son tribunal. "
Devant son portrait, ouvre d'un de ses amis, Dorian Gray, jeune homme d'une immense fortune et d'une exceptionnelle beauté, fait le vou de rester tel qu'il est peint, tandis que son image vieillira à sa place. Exaucé par une intervention magique et fatale, Dorian cède alors à tous ses caprices et à toutes ses folies. Dans les quartiers élégants de Londres et les bouges du port, sous le masque de sa beauté intacte, il mène une vie de débauche et de crime. Esthète, monstre, dandy, il a décidé de faire de sa vie une ouvre d'art. Une vie qui ressemble à celle d'Oscar Wilde, que la société victorienne lui fit payer en le condamnant aux travaux forcés...

Le Portrait de Dorian Gray

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 ! ».

Oscar Wilde's only novel is the dreamlike story of a young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty.

In this celebrated work Wilde forged a devastating portrait of the effects of evil and debauchery on a young aesthete in late-19th-century England. Combining elements of the Gothic horror novel and decadent French fiction, the book centers on a striking premise: As Dorian Gray sinks into a life of crime and gross sensuality, his body retains perfect youth and vigor while his recently painted portrait grows day by day into a hideous record of evil, which he must keep hidden from the world. For over a century, this mesmerizing tale of horror and suspense has enjoyed wide popularity. It ranks as one of Wilde's most important creations and among the classic achievements of its kind.

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