Oscar Wilde's "Lord Arthur Savile's crime" was originally published in 1891 as a collection of short stories. A fun crime story, when the criminal tries to beat his future by embracing it in his own way, with a marvellous twist at the end, it is one of the best examples of Wilde's multifaceted talent. Rediscover "Lord Arthur Savile's crime" in this new edition with an original preface and biography by Les Éditions de Londres.

Lord Arthur Savile’s crime

Wilde the writer is known to us from his plays and prose fiction, but apparently it was in his conversation that his genius reached its summit. His talk is lost and his autobiography was never written, but his letters reveal him at his spontaneous, sparkling best.

 Wilde the writer is known to us from his plays and prose fiction, yet it was in his conversation that his genius reached its summit. His talk is lost, his autobiography was never written, but his letters reveal him at his spontaneous, sparkling best.

 Of all nineteenth-century letter writers Oscar Wilde is, predictably, one of the most brilliant. Wonderfully fluent in style, the letters bear that most familiar of Wildean hallmarks - the lightest of touches for the most serious of subjects. He comments openly on his life and his work from the early years of undergraduate friendship, through his year-long lecture tour in America as a striving young 'Professor of Aesthetics', to the short period of fame and success in the early 1890s, when he corresponded with many leading political, literary and artistic figures of the time. Disgrace and imprisonment followed, but even in adversity his humour does not desert him.

 In this beautifully produced volume Merlin Holland has brought together his most revealing letters with an illuminating commentary. Together they form the closest thing we shall ever have to Wilde's own memoir.

Oscar Wilde - A Life in Letters

A House of Pomegranates is a collection of whimisical short stories by Oscar Wilde. This collections includes the following tales:- "The Young King", - "The Birthday of the Infanta", - "The Fisherman and his Soul", - "The Star-child". Readers of all ages will be delighted by these fanciful tales.

La maison des Grenades: contes

"Una casa de granadas" reúne cuatro relatos del indiscutible Oscar Wilde. Éstos fueron escritos en la mejor época del autor y pueden considerarse bellos ejemplos de relatos mágicos del simbolismo. Esta edición incluye: "El joven rey", "El cumpleaños de la infanta", "El pescador y su alma" y "El niño estrella".

Una casa de granadas

The happy prince

Le fantôme de Canterville

Que c'est triste ! Je vais devenir vieux, horrible et épouvantable. Mais ce portrait, lui, demeurera toujours jeune. [...] Si seulement c'était moi qui devais rester éternellement jeune et le portrait qui devait vieillir ! Pour cela, je donnerais tout ! [...] Je donnerais mon âme ! Toute l'intrigue de l'unique roman d'Oscar Wilde est en germe dans ce vœu aux accents de pacte faustien. Dorénavant, Dorian Gray ne vieillira plus : c'est son portrait qui portera les stigmates de son âge, de ses vices et de ses crimes.En 1890, lorsque paraît Le Portrait de Dorian Gray, les adjectifs ruissellent sous la plume des critiques pour crier à l'immoralité : lascif, pernicieux, répugnant, empoisonné, le livre respire une atmosphère " chargée des odeurs méphitiques de la putréfaction morale et spirituelle ". Mais pour Wilde, la qualité du style est le seul critère pour juger d'une œuvre : " Il n'existe pas de livre moral ou immoral. Les livres sont bien ou mal écrits. Voilà tout. "

Le Portrait de Dorian Gray

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.

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.

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