Le fantôme de Canterville

Dorian Gray est un jeune dandy d'une rare beauté. L'un de ses ami et peintre, Basil Hallward, décide de faire son portrait et, fasciné par ce modèle, parvient au paroxysme de son art. Dorian Gray, lui-même, tombe amoureux de son propre reflet. Il fait ainsi le vœu de conserver l'éclat de sa jeunesse, et le portrait accuse l'outrage du temps à sa place... Le Portrait de Dorian Gray est l'unique roman d'Oscar Wilde. Il est publié dans sa version définitive en avril 1891. Sa parution déchaîna les passions et heurta de front la prude société victorienne qui ne vit dans ce conte fantastique et philosophique que l'immoralité du héros. C'est pourtant cette variante du mythe de Faust qui fera le succès d'Oscar Wilde.

Le Portrait de Dorian Gray d'Oscar Wilde

L'ame humaine sous le regime socialiste, publie en 1891, est une longue meditation de Wilde sur l'interet et les consequences qu'aurait l'instauration du socialisme sur l'epanouissement de l'individu, et en particulier de l'artiste.

L’âme humaine sous le régime socialiste

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

When Mr. Hiram B. Otis, the American Minister, bought Canterville Chase, every one told him he was doing a very foolish thing, as there was no doubt at all that the place was haunted. Indeed, Lord Canterville himself, who was a man of the most punctilious honour, had felt it his duty to mention the fact to Mr. Otis when they came to discuss terms.

"We have not cared to live in the place ourselves, " said Lord Canterville, "since my grandaunt, the Dowager Duchess of Bolton, was frightened into a fit, from which she never really recovered, by two skeleton hands being placed on her shoulders as she was dressing for dinner, and I feel bound to tell you, Mr. Otis, that the ghost has been seen by several living members of my family, as well as by the rector of the parish, the Rev. Augustus Dampier, who is a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. After the unfortunate accident to the Duchess, none of our younger servants would stay with us, and Lady Canterville often got very little sleep at night, in consequence of the mysterious noises that came from the corridor and the library."

The Canterville Ghost

Une édition de référence du Portrait de Dorian Gray d'Oscar Wilde, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.« J'établis une grande différence entre les gens. Je choisis mes amis pour leur bonne mine, mes simples camarades pour leur caractère, et mes ennemis pour leur intelligence ; un homme ne saurait trop attacher d'importance au choix de ses ennemis ; je n'en ai point un seul qui soit un sot ; ce sont tous hommes d'une certaine puissance intellectuelle et, par conséquent, ils m'apprécient. Est-ce très vain de ma part d'agir ainsi ! Je crois que c'est plutôt. vain. » (Extrait du chapitre 1.)

Le Portrait de Dorian Gray

Lisez, écoutez, écrivez ! Pocket et Nathan s'associent et proposent "Une oeuvre, une voix", une collection qui engage l'élève dans une lecture active et personnelle, à la manière d'un carnet de lecteur.

" L'expression était d'une cruauté atroce. Là, son âme même, émergeant de la toile, le dévisageait et l'appelait à son tribunal. "
Devant son portrait, ouvre d'un de ses amis, Dorian Gray, jeune homme d'une immense fortune et d'une exceptionnelle beauté, fait le vou de rester tel qu'il est peint, tandis que son image vieillira à sa place. Exaucé par une intervention magique et fatale, Dorian cède alors à tous ses caprices et à toutes ses folies. Dans les quartiers élégants de Londres et les bouges du port, sous le masque de sa beauté intacte, il mène une vie de débauche et de crime. Esthète, monstre, dandy, il a décidé de faire de sa vie une ouvre d'art. Une vie qui ressemble à celle d'Oscar Wilde, que la société victorienne lui fit payer en le condamnant aux travaux forcés...

High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince. He was gilded all over with thin leaves of fine gold, for eyes he had two bright sapphires, and a large red ruby glowed on his sword hilt.

He was very much admired indeed. "He is as beautiful as a weathercock, " remarked one of the Town Councillors who wished to gain a reputation for having artistic tastes; "only not quite so useful, "he added, fearing lest people should think him unpractical, which he really was not.

"Why can't you be like the Happy Prince?" asked a sensible mother of her little boy who was crying for the moon. "The Happy Prince never dreams of crying for anything."

"I am glad there is some one in the world who is quite happy, " muttered a disappointed man as he gazed at the wonderful statue.

The Happy Prince

This carefully crafted ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents of the complete works of Oscar Wilde, containing more than 150 works.
Content:
The Plays: Vera, The duchess of Padua, Lady Windermere's fan, A Woman of no importance, Salomé, Selome (English Version), An ideal husband, The importance of being earnest.
The Poetry: more than 100 poems.
The Novel: The picture of Dorian Gray, including the revised 20 chapter version.
The Short Stories: The Portrait of Mr. W. H., The happy prince and other tales, A house of pomegranates, Lord Arthut Savile's crime and other stories.The non-fiction: The decay of lying, Pen, Pencil and poison - a study in green, The critic as artist, The truth of masks, The rise of historical criticism, The english renaissance of art, House decoration, Art and the handicraftsman, Lecture to art students, London models, Poems in prose, The soul of man under socialism, Phrases and philosophies for the use of the young, A few maxims for the instruction of the over-educated, De Profundis, Oscar Wilde's letter to Robert Browning, Personal impressions of America, The decorative arts, The house beautiful, The truth of masks.
The journalism: A handbook to marriage, A ride through morocco, Aristotle at afternoon tea, Balzac in english, Dinners and dishes, Hamlet at the lyceum, London models, Mr. Morris on tapestry, Mr. Whistler's ten o'clock, Mrs. Langtry as Hester Grazebrook, Olivia at the lyceum, The american invasion, Two biographies of Keats, Two letters to the Daily Chronicle, Woman's dress.
Apocrypha: Teleny.
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie 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 and plays, and the circumstances of his imprisonment which was followed by his early death. At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). The opportunity to construct aesthetic details precisely, and combine them with larger social themes, drew Wilde to write drama. He wrote Salome (1891) in French in Paris but it was refused a licence. Unperturbed, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London. At the height of his fame and success, while his masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), was still on stage in London, Wilde had the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, prosecuted for libel, a charge carrying a penalty of up to two years in prison. The trial unearthed evidence that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own arrest and trial for gross indecency with other men. After two more trials he was convicted and imprisoned for two years' hard labour. In 1897, in prison, he wrote De Profundis which was published in 1905, a long letter which discusses his spiritual journey through his trials, forming a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure. Upon his release he left immediately for France, never to return to Ireland or Britain. There he wrote his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life. He died destitute in Paris at the age of forty-six.

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