Les pensees

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

This   carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Short Stories: The Model Millionaire +   The Canterville Ghost + The Happy Prince + The Star-Child + The Fisherman And   His Soul + The Selfish Giant + The Nightingale And The Rose + The Sphinx   Without A Secret + many more..." is formatted for your eReader with a   functional and detailed table of contents.
Oscar Wilde's shorter fiction includes best-loved stories such as 'The   Happy Prince', 'The Selfish Giant', and 'Lord Arthur Savile's Crime' as well   as the innovative 'Portrait of Mr W. H.', about the mysterious dedicatee of   Shakespeare's sonnets.
Table of Contents:
The Portrait Of Mr. W. H.
The Happy Prince And Other Tales:
The Happy Prince
The Nightingale And The Rose
The Selfish Giant
The Devoted Friend
The Remarkable Rocket
A House Of Pomegranates:
The Young King
The Birthday Of The Infanta
The Fisherman And His Soul
The Star-Child
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime And Other Stories:
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
The Canterville Ghost
The Sphinx Without A Secret
The Model Millionaire
Oscar 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, his only novel (The Picture of Dorian Gray), his plays, and the   circumstances of his imprisonment and early death.

The Complete Short Stories: The Model Millionaire + The Canterville Ghost + The Happy Prince + The Star-Child + The Fisherman And His Soul + The Selfish Giant + The Nightingale And The Rose + The Sphinx Without A Secret + many more...

Wilde, socialiste revolutionnaire ? Assurement, mais tendance dandy, ironique, forcement deviante, comme l annonce son programme: - Le socialisme lui-meme n aura de valeur que parce qu il conduira a l individualisme - ! Les socialistes orthodoxes comme les tenants de l ordre etabli (capitaliste et victorien) en seront pour leurs frais.En 1891, un an apres le retentissant Portrait de Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde developpe dans cet essai tres corrosif sa theorie esthetique, sous une apparence politique: l homme ne doit se soucier que du beau et gagner ainsi sa liberte individuelle."

L'Ame de L'Homme Sous Le Socialisme

The canterville ghost and other stories

Alors qu'il rend visite à son ami peintre Basil Hallward, Lord Henry rencontre le jeune Dorian Gray. Emerveillé par sa jeune beauté et sa naïveté, il se lie rapidement d'amitié avec lui et dit, en plaisantant, qu'une fois le portrait terminé, seul celui-ci gardera à jamais cette beauté tandis que Dorian vieillira peu à peu. Le jeune homme déclare alors qu'il donnerait son âme pour que ce portrait vieillisse à sa place. A ces mots, tous rirent... sur le moment.

Effrayé par ce portrait si parfait, Dorian le laissera chez lui, protégé de la vue de tous, cachant honteusement le secret de son âme...

Le Portrait de Dorian Gray a été rédigé en 1890 puis complété en 1891. Ce roman fantastique est à la fois un manifeste esthétique et un récit moral. Bien qu'Oscar Wilde y développe l'idée d'un art dégagé de toute éthique, le jeune Dorian Gray va faire face à sa conscience morale à travers son portrait qui porte à sa place les traces de sa perversité et la décadence que le temps inflige aux esprits les plus purs.

Le portrait de Dorian Gray

The world is revealed as a cruel place when the Infanta of Spain is gifted a hunchbacked child for entertainment on her twelfth birthday. 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 Birthday Of The Infanta - Short Story

In The Soul of Man under Socialism Oscar Wilde expounds on an anarchist world view. Wilde argues that under capitalism the majority of people spoil their lives by an unhealthy and exaggerated altruism-are forced, indeed, so to spoil them: instead of realizing their true talents, they waste their time solving the social problems caused by capitalism, without taking their common cause away. Thus, caring people seriously and very sentimentally set themselves to the task of remedying the evils that they see in poverty, but their remedies do not cure the disease: they merely prolong it because, the proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

L'âme humaine et le socialisme

Ce recueil d'essais inédits regroupe des écrits sur les écrivains et les artistes (Keats, Walt Whitman, Walter Pater, Whistler), des critiques de théâtre (principalement sur Shakespeare) et enfin des polémiques au sujet de Salomé qui fut interdite de représentation à Londres et sur Le portrait de Dorian Gray qui rencontra de fortes critiques.

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