Une des principales causes du caractère curieusement banal de toute la littérature de notre époque est de toute évidence le déclin du mensonge considéré comme art, comme science et comme plaisir social.

Le déclin du mensonge

Contes extraits d’Œuvres (Bibliothèque de la Pléiade)Comment résister à la tentation lorsque même notre âme essaie de nous corrompre? Pour rester auprès de la sirène qu'il aime éperdument, un pêcheur va devoir aller à l'encontre de l'éthique et affronter la noirceur de son âme.

Le pêcheur et son âme

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.

Le Portrait De Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray

A selfish miller proves to be the downfall of his devoted friend and gardener, Hans, even as he benefits from the fruits of Hans's labour. 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 Devoted Friend - Short Story

Longue nouvelle de l'écrivain irlandais Oscar Wilde (auteur du célèbre Portrait de Dorian Gray), Le Crime de Lord Arthur Savile, est une satire, en l'occurrence ici celle de la noblesse victorienne. L'intrigue - comment un individu honorable peut se laisser embobiner par les prédictions d'un charlatan qui lui annonçât un beau jour un funeste destin - n'est que prétexte à laisser courir l'imagination, la finesse, la légéreté, l'humour (noir) de l'auteur. Un bijou par le raffinement et le charme du style reconnaissable entre tous. Faut-il s'en étonner alors que Wilde lui-même l'avouait : "La vérité est entièrement et absolument une affaire de style".

Le crime de lord Arthur Savile

Poésie et fantastique se mêlent dans cette histoire d'hébergement par une famille londonienne d'un fantôme appelé sir Simon de Canterville. Mais les rôles sont inversés et ce sont les enfants de cette respectable famille qui sèment la terreur et tentent de faire fuir le fantôme.

Le Fantôme De Canterville Et Autres Nouvelles (French Edition)

On the surface, Sir Robert Chiltern is an ideal husband-he has an impressive role as a member of the House of Commons and is always respectable in public and in private. His wife, Lady Chiltern, is proud of their privileged life. What she does not know is that Sir Robert's initial rise to power was founded in slightly shady circumstances, and over the course of twenty-four hours, these past indiscretions threaten to come to light, and the fate of the Chiltern's marriage is soon at stake. 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.

An Ideal Husband

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Le déclin du mensonge

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