A haunting, magical fairy-tale collection, in which Oscar Wilde beautifully evokes (among others) The Happy Prince who was not so happy after all, The Selfish Giant who learned to love little children and The Star Child who did not love his parents as much as he should. Each of the stories shines with poetry and magic and will be enjoyed by children of every age.  A perfect collection for children young and old, introduced by Markus Zusak, bestselling author of  The Book Thief.

Happy prince & other stories, the

Le Portrait de Dorian Gray (The Picture of Dorian Gray) est un roman d'Oscar Wilde, publie en 1890 (revise en 1891) et ecrit dans le contexte de l'epoque victorienne. L'auteur y inclut des themes relevant de l'esthetique tels que l'art, la beaute, la jeunesse, la morale et l'hedonisme. Le roman est fantastique, mais aussi philosophique, et met en lumiere la personnalite equivoque du dandy irlandais ainsi que le courant decadentiste, ce qui suscite de virulents echanges de lettres entre Wilde et plusieurs journaux tres critiques jugeant l' uvre repugnante . C'est egalement l'unique roman de Wilde dans toute sa carriere."

Le Portrait de Dorian Gray

It was the night before the day fixed for his coronation, and the young King was sitting alone in his beautiful chamber. His courtiers had all taken their leave of him, bowing their heads to the ground, according to the ceremonious usage of the day, and had retired to the Great Hall of the Palace, to receive a few last lessons from the Professor of Etiquette; there being some of them who had still quite natural manners, which in a courtier is, I need hardly say, a very grave offence.

The lad-for he was only a lad, being but sixteen years of age-was not sorry at their departure, and had flung himself back with a deep sigh of relief on the soft cushions of his embroidered couch, lying there, wild eyed and open mouthed, like a brown woodland Faun, or some young animal of the forest newly snared by the hunters.

And, indeed, it was the hunters who had found him, coming upon him almost by chance as, bare limbed and pipe in hand, he was following the flock of the poor goatherd who had brought him up, and whose son he had always fancied himself to be. The child of the old King?s only daughter by a secret marriage with one much beneath her in station-a stranger, some said, who, by the wonderful magic of his lute-playing, had made the young Princess love him; while others spoke of an artist from Rimini, to whom the Princess had shown much, perhaps too much honour, and who had suddenly disappeared from the city, leaving his work in the Cathedral unfinished-he had been, when but a week old, stolen away from his mother's side, as she slept, and given into the charge of a common peasant and his wife, who were without children of their own, and lived in a remote part of the forest, more than a day's ride from the town.

A House of Pomegranates

Lors de leur première publication, en 1880, les Contes d'Oscar Wilde eurent un succès immédiat. Le lyrisme, la sensibilité, l'esprit et l'humour de Wilde sont exceptionnels. De telles qualités ont séduit des générations de lecteurs. Nous avons retenu pour cette magnifique édition six contes, parmi les plus populaires qu'ait écrits Wilde. Ils sont accompagnés de superbes illustrations en couleur de Patrick James Lynch. Ces six contes sont écrits dans des styles et des tonalités très variés : - Le Prince Heureux - et - Le Rossignol et la Rose - sont d'un caractère poignant. - La Fusée Extraordinaire - et L'Ami Dévoué sont porteurs d'un humour très subtil. Le Géant Egoïste - et - Le Jeune Roi - véhiculent des émotions et des sentiments très forts. Des aquarelles qui révèlent une grande imagination illustrent chaque conte. Elles stimulent l'attention du lecteur et hanteront longtemps sa mémoire. Ce livre enchantera à jamais les enfants, qui y trouveront un plaisir inoubliable. Offrez ce livre, c'est un cadeau irremplaçable.

Contes

L'art n'a pas à être moral, l'artiste n'a pas à s'occuper des conséquences sociales de son chemin vers le beau.
Oscar Wilde y laissera la vie. Aura de scandale qui le poursuit toujours.
Paru en 1891 dans le Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, c'est une version épurée par la morale d'époque qui paraît en roman, et qui sera traduite en français dès 1895. Il était temps de rebattre les cartes.
Un roman du désir. Mais avant tout un conte fantastique, et qui fait mal: le portrait que réalise du jeune Dorian Gray le peintre Basil Hallward serait un tel idéal de la beauté que le tableau devient insupportable à celui qui en fut le modèle.
Et s'il était possible que ce soit le tableau qui vieillisse, et que lui, Dorian Gray, garde à jamais ce visage tel qu'il a été transcendé et fixé ? L'incroyable puissance du récit tient à ce noeud, jusqu'au coup de couteau final.
Il était temps, plus que temps, de présenter le livre en français dans sa version originale, celle du Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, avant les coupes subies par le roman - le monde anglophone a fait aussi cette révision. L'occasion pour Christine Jeanney de reprendre entièrement un récit universel, et l'aiguiser pour la langue d'aujourd'hui, en exclusivité pour publie.net.
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Le portrait de Dorian Gray

Et tout le temps la chaux brûlante Lui mange la chair et les os, Mange la nuit les os cassants Et le jour mange la chair tendre, Mange os et chair chacun leur tour, Mais le coeur, le mange toujours. Oscar Wilde

La Ballade de la geôle de Reading

600 citations des grands écrivains du XXe siècle

One of the world's best loved presenters meets one of the world's greatest authors in this beautiful selection of timeless, haunting stories. Vividly brought to life through abundant illustrations and Stephen's masterly introductions, Oscar Wilde's short stories are here made accessible to an entirely new generation.

 Whether you know it or not, the stories in this book are familiar. Like old friends whose charm and warmth never fade, Oscar Wilde's short stories have enchanted generations of readers, and this beautiful book makes them accessible to an entirely new readership.

 Selected and presented by one of Wilde's biggest fans, the book includes a foreword from Stephen Fry, who will also supply short introductions to the stories themselves, explaining why they mean so much to him and why they should mean a lot to you too.

 Meet the selfish giant, whose garden was cloaked in perpetual winter until he allowed the children to enter and play, the happy prince whose statue stood overlooking his city, who gave the rubies and sapphires embedded in his eyes and clothing to feed the poor, and the tiny swallow who helped him. And let's not forget the remarkable rocket who was so convinced that he would be the brightest, most remarkable rocket of all, yet who ended up in a ditch. There's also the Canterville ghost, so inept at being scary that every attempt to spook his American visitors results in failure.

 Stephen Fry has always been passionate about Oscar Wilde's writing but he has a particular fondness for his short stories. In this beautifully illustrated book he shares with us what each story means to him and what he feels the reader can take away with them, whether they're five or fifty years old. As well as a general introduction, Stephen offers introductions to the stories themselves, taking the reader through his selection. Illustrated by Nicole Stewart, stunning artwork accompanies each story to give shape to the reader's imagination.

 Whether you are buying this for yourself, for your wife, your son or daughter, for your nephew, your niece, your mother, your brother or your sister, the book will be a gift that you or they will cherish forever and return to time and time again. These are stories for adults and children of all ages, for all time.

Oscar Wilde’s Stories for All Ages

Être entraîné à la dérive de toute passion jusqu'à ce que mon âme devienne un luth aux cordes tendues dont peuvent jouer tous les vents, c'est pour cela que j'ai renoncé à mon antique sagesse, à l'austère maîtrise de moi-même.A ce qu'il me semble, ma vie est un parchemin sur lequel on aurait écrit deux fois, ou en quelque jour de vacances, une main enfantine aurait griffonné de vaines chansons pour la flûte ou le virelai, sans autre effet que de profaner tout le mystère.Fruit d'une sélection réalisée au sein des fonds de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, Collection XIX a pour ambition de faire découvrir des textes classiques et moins classiques dans les meilleures éditions du XIXe siècle.

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