Le crime de lord arthur savile et autres contes

Une petite hirondelle en route pour l'Égypte décide de passer la nuit à l'abri d'une statue dominant la ville. Couverte de minces feuilles d'or fin, des yeux faits de saphirs, un gros rubis ornant le pommeau de son épée, c'est la statue du Prince heureux. Soudain, une goutte d'eau glisse sur son aile : la statue pleure ! Le Prince heureux pleure sur les misères de sa ville...

Le prince heureux ; le géant égoïste ; et autres contes

Lord Darlington. How do you do, Lady Windermere?

Lady Windermere. How do you do, Lord Darlington? No, I can't shake hands with you. My hands are all wet with these roses. Aren't they lovely? They came up from Selby this morning.

Lord Darlington. They are quite perfect. [Sees a fan lying on the table.] And what a wonderful fan! May I look at it?

Lady Windermere. Do. Pretty, isn't it! It's got my name on it, and everything. I have only just seen it myself. It's my husband's birthday present to me. You know today is my birthday?

Lord Darlington. No? Is it really?

Lady Windermere. Yes, I'm of age today. Quite an important day in my life, isn't it? That is why I am giving this party tonight. Do sit down. [Still arranging flowers.]

Lord Darlington. [Sitting down.] I wish I had known it was your birthday, Lady Windermere. I would have covered the whole street in front of your house with flowers for you to walk on. They are made for you.

[A short pause.]

Lady Windermere. Lord Darlington, you annoyed me last night at the Foreign Office. I am afraid you are going to annoy me again.

Lord Darlington. I, Lady Windermere?

[Enter Parker and Footman C., with tray and tea things.]

Lady Windermere. Put it there, Parker. That will do. [Wipes her hands with her pocket-handkerchief, goes to tea-table, and sits down.] Won't you come over, Lord Darlington?

[Exit Parker C.]

Lord Darlington. [Takes chair and goes across L. C.] I am quite miserable, Lady Windermere. You must tell me what I did. [Sits down at table L.]

Lady Windermere. Well, you kept paying me elaborate compliments the whole evening.

Lord Darlington. [Smiling.] Ah, nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay.

Lady Windermere's Fan

OSCAR WILDE (1854-1900) Nouvelles Short Stories Traduites et présentées par Gérard Hardin Le Fantôme de Canterville - The Canterville Ghost La savoureuse rencontre d'un fantôme très britannique avec une famille américaine !
 

 
Le Milliardaire modèle - The Model Millionaire Que l'on s'adresse à un clochard ou à un millionnaire, un bienfait n'est jamais perdu...
 

 
Le Prince heureux - The Happy Prince Le sacrifice émouvant de deux créatures hors du commun : un oiseau et un prince.
 
 
 La série BILINGUE propose :

 
 
Une traduction fidèle et intégrale, accompagnée de nombreuses notes ;
 
Une méthode originale de perfectionnement par un contact direct avec les oeuvres d'auteurs étrangers.

Nouvelles ; short stories

Oscar Wilde reste le maître incontesté du trait cinglant, de la formule assassine et de la maxime
meurtrière. Aristocrate de l'esprit, dandy provocateur, il a frappé là où il le fallait, sur la " bonne " société, son hypocrisie et ses masques. Maître du paradoxe, il a passé sa vie à lutter de façon toujours subtile et brillante contre les idées reçues, les convenances ridicules et l'universelle bêtise. C'est à un véritable feu d'artifice que nous convie cet ouvrage qui rassemble le meilleur de l'un des hommes les plus captivants de l'histoire de la littérature, qui avait coutume de dire : Il n'a qu'une chose au monde pire que de faire parler de soi, c'est de ne pas
faire parler de soi.

Les Pensees

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Lord Arthur Savile, jeune noble anglais, a tout pour être heureux : une vie facile, la perspective d'un mariage agréable, jusqu'au jour où le chiromancien d'une de ses amies lui prédit qu'il commettra un meurtre. Voyant ses projets contrariés, il décide de prendre le destin de vitesse en commettant ce crime inéluctable coûte que coûte. Mais qui tuer ? Et comment s'y prendre ? Cette nouvelle originale, drôle et piquante, emplie de l'esprit et de l'humour d'Oscar Wilde, séduira les élèves en leur apprenant à dégager l'ironie d'un texte. Elle leur permettra également d'étudier toutes les caractéristiques de la nouvelle (ici savamment exploitées par un maître du genre), de découvrir l'art du portrait et d'aborder la notion de point de vue.

Le Crime de Lord Arthur Savile

L'éventail de Lady Windermere - Comédie en quatre actes

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.

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