Bøker av Oscar Wilde

Dominando la ciudad, sobre una alta columna, se alzaba la estatua del Príncipe Feliz. Estaba sobredorada con láminas delgadas de oro fino, por ojos tenía dos brillantes zafiros, y ardía un gran rubí en la empuñadura de su espada. Verdaderamente era muy admirado. ¿Es tan bello como una veleta ¿observó uno de los concejales, que quería adquirir fama de tener gustos artísticos¿; sólo que no es tan útil ¿ añadió, temiendo que la gente fuera a pensar que carecía de sentido práctico, lo que en realidad no era el caso. ¿ ¿Por qué no te pareces al Príncipe Feliz? ¿preguntó una madre sensata a un niño que lloraba porque quería la lunä. Al Príncipe Feliz nunca se le ocurriría llorar por nada. ¿Me alegro de que haya alguien en el mundo que sea completamente feliz ¿murmuró un hombre desengañado, mientras contemplaba la maravillosa estatua. ¿Parece un ángel ¿dijeron los niños del hospicio cuando salían de la catedral con sus capas de brillante color escarlata y sus limpios delantales blancos. ¿ ¿Cómo lo sabéis? ¿dijo el profesor de matemáticas¿, nunca habéis visto a ninguno. ¿Ah, pero lo hemos visto en sueños ¿replicaron los niños. Y el profesor de matemáticas frunció el ceño y tomó un aspecto severo, pues no aprobaba que los niños soñaran.

¡Qué triste es!, murmuró Dorian Gray con los ojos aún fijos en su propio retrato. ¡Qué triste es! Me volveré viejo, horrible y espantoso. Pero este retrato permanecerá siempre joven. Nunca será más viejo que este día concreto de junio... ¡Si fuera al revés! ¡Si fuera yo el que fuera siempre joven, y el cuadro el que envejeciera! Por eso... por eso... ¡lo daría todo! Sí, no hay nada en el mundo entero que no daría. ¡Daría mi alma por eso!.Oscar Wilde escribe una sola novela, El retrato de Dorian Gray; ésta fue el objeto de una crítica moralizante mordaz por parte de sus contemporáneos que no pudieron ver que dentro de una trama perfectamente compuesta se escondía toda la tragedia del romanticismo moderno.Cien años después no ha perdido nada de su impacto original y sigue constituyendo un texto fundamental para los debates de la relación entre la estética y la moral. Abordando desde la ficción debates constantes como la lucha del bien contra el mal, el alma y el cuerpo, el arte y la vida logra compenetrar al lector dentro de estos conceptos y sentimientos sin por un momento perder el suspenso de una historia centrada en alguien solitario que no puede pertenecer a la sociedad de su tiempo o alcanzar la felicidad aún si todo está a su alcance.Esta nueva traducción al español permite una lectura amena y atrapante, apta tanto para quienes se llegan a este libro por primera vez como para aquéllos que se sienten listos para su relectura.

The Complete Fairy Stories of Oscar Wilde gathers all nine of Oscar Wilde's whimsical, poignant fabulations from The Happy Prince and Other Tales and The House of Pomegranates. Laced with Wilde's legendary drollery, these fanciful tales touch on the themes of love, devotion, creativity, compassion, friendship, and longing with both irresistible charm and profound insight. As appealing to adults as children, these ingenious gems by a master storyteller provide delightful bedtime reading and an enthralling escape to worlds of Wilde's making. This Warbler Classics edition includes a detailed biographical timeline of Wilde's life and work.

Inspired by symbolist poetry and the frequent appearance of Salome in contemporary art and literature, Oscar Wilde wrote SALOME in French during a Paris stay in 1891-92. The play's sexuality and religious needling-not to mention the final scene in which Salome embraces the decapitated head of a saint-drew censors' ire. No public presentation was given in England until 1931.from the Translator's Note

A Critic in Pall Mall is an Oscar Wilde literary criticism text that examines the works of English literary giants. The Oscar Wilde book includes these literary studies:The tomb of Keats -- Keats's Sonnet on blue -- Dinners and dishes -- Shakespeare on scenery -- 'Henry the Fourth' at Oxford -- A handbook to marriage -- To read or not to read -- The letters of a great woman -- Béranger in England -- The poetry of the people -- 'The Cenci' -- Balzac in English -- Ben Jonson

"The Ballad of Reading Gaol and De Profundis" collects together some of Oscar Wilde's most important writings during and concerning his two-year-long incarceration for "gross indecency". In the words of Oscar Wilde, we see his recognition for the part that he plays in his own downfall. While he never directly admits to his crimes, numerous contemporary witnesses seem to validate the charges against him. Yet Wilde could have avoided his fate if he had not chosen to sue the Marquess of Queensberry for libel. The harsh experience of prison life is recounted in these works with sensitivity towards reform. As a person of a weaker constitution, it is believed that Wilde's prison infirmities may have contributed to his decline and death just a few years after his release. In "The Ballad of Reading Gaol", the last work published before Wilde's death, we have an eloquent and sensitive concern for the insufferable conditions of prison life juxtaposed with the execution of a man convicted of killing his wife. The 1926 edition of "De Profundis" is presented here with introductory matter by Wilde's literary executor, Robbie Ross, and several of Wilde's letters from prison that were collected in that edition. Together these works give the reader an intimate picture of the writer at the most trying point of his life and the spiritual awakening that it produced. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

The Picture of Dorian Gray is written by Oscar Wilde and is based on one innocent, eventual downfall, and moral corruption of a young man's seduction. The story begins in the studio of painter Basil Hallward with his friend Lord Henry. Basil confides to Henry that he is working on a portrait of Dorian Gray, who had an extraordinary influence on him. Basil Hallward's portrait of Dorian Gray is admired by Lord Henry Wotton, but Dorian has an extreme response to the portrait, wishing he could trade with it. In between the story of this portrait creation, Dorian begins to seek every experience of life and falls in love with Sybil Vane, a beautiful young actress who embodies Shakespeare's heroines. However, Sybil is in love with her 'Prince Charming' and is determined to marry him. Dorian becomes obsessed with his portrait, leading to his murder of Basil and the destruction of the painting. Dorian killed Basil in frustration but why and then what happened to Sybil? Did she marry Dorian? To know the complete story readers should read The Picture of Dorian Gray!

Salomé est une tragédie d'Oscar Wilde dont la version originale de 1891 est en français. Une traduction en anglais a suivi trois ans plus tard. La pièce, en un acte, repose sur l'épisode biblique de Salomé1, belle-fille du tétrarque de Galilée Hérode Antipas, qui, à la consternation de son beau-père, mais au grand plaisir de sa mère Hérodiade, demande qu'on lui apporte la tête de Iokanaan (Jean le Baptiste) sur un plateau d'argent comme récompense pour avoir exécuté la danse des sept voiles.Versions et premièresWilde écrivit cette pièce à Paris, où il s'était retiré après avoir achevé L'Éventail de Lady Windermere. Il la dédia à Pierre Louÿs, qui apporta quelques corrections au texte mais n'intervint que très peu. Séduite par le rôle-titre, Sarah Bernhardt décida de l'interpréter elle-même, et les répétitions commencèrent au Palace Theatre de Londres. Ces répétitions durent toutefois s'interrompre lorsque la censure du Lord Chamberlain eut interdit Salomé au motif qu'il était illégal de représenter sur scène des personnages bibliques. Indigné, Wilde envisagea de renoncer à sa nationalité britannique et de devenir français afin de ne plus avoir à subir de telles restrictions.Le texte de la pièce fut publié pour la première fois en français en 1893. Dans un article intitulé « The Censure and Salomé », publié dans la Pall Mall Gazette du 29 juin 1892, interrogé sur la raison pour laquelle il avait écrit Salomé en français, Wilde déclare : « I have one instrument that I know I can command, and that is the English language. There was another instrument to which I had listened all my life, and I wanted once to touch this new instrument to see whether I could make any beautiful thing out of it. Of course, there are modes of expression that a Frenchman of letters would not have used, but they give a certain relief or color to the play. A great deal of the curious effect that Maeterlinck produces comes from the fact that he, a Flamand by grace, writes in an alien language. The same thing is true of Rossetti, who, though he wrote in English, was essentially Latin in temperament. »3,a La traduction en anglais parut en 1894 chez les éditeurs Charles Elkin Mathews & John Lane, avec des illustrations dues à Aubrey Beardsley. Sur la page de dédicace, Wilde indique comme traducteur lord Alfred Douglas. En fait, Wilde s'était querellé avec lui au sujet de la traduction, peu satisfait de ce travail dont « le résultat fut décevant4 ». Il semble que le texte anglais soit l'¿uvre de Wilde lui-même, qui s'est fondé sur ce qu'avait fait Alfred Douglas.

Le personnage principal de ce roman, Lord Arthur Savile, est présenté, à l'occasion d'une soirée donnée par Lady Windermere, à un chiromancien, Septimus R. Podgers. Ce dernier lit dans la paume de la main de Lord Arthur, un funèbre destin. On apprend au chapitre suivant qu'il s'agit d'un crime et par diverses circonstances, Lord Arthur croit comprendre qu'il sera l'auteur d'un crime. Alors qu'il voulait se marier avec Sybil Merton, sa fiancée, il décide qu'il n'a pas le droit de le faire avant d'avoir commis ce meurtre.Sa première tentative porte sur une tante âgée, Lady Clementina Beauchamps, qui souffre de brûlures d'estomac. Arthur lui donne une capsule empoisonnée à l'aconitine, qu'il présente comme un remède américain d'un nouveau genre, à prendre en cas de crise. Recevant un télégramme quelques semaines plus tard, il apprend sa mort et retourne victorieusement à Londres, pour apprendre qu'elle lui a légué une propriété. En triant les affaires de sa tante, Sybil trouve la pilule de poison, intacte ; ainsi, Lady Clem, sa tante est morte de manière naturelle et lui se trouve dans le besoin d'une nouvelle victime.Après réflexion, il contacte un ami anarchiste, qui lui procure une bombe dissimulée dans une pendule. Arthur l'envoie anonymement à un parent éloigné, le Doyen de Chichester. Malheureusement l'engin se révélera défectueux, réjouissant la fille du Doyen qui passera ses après-midis à produire des explosions minuscules et inoffensives avec l'horloge.Désespéré, Lord Arthur croit ses plans de mariage condamnés quand il rencontre Podgers, en pleine nuit, au bord de la Tamise. Il précipite alors le chiromancien dans le fleuve du haut d'un parapet. Quelques jours plus tard un journal annonce le suicide, puisque tel a été le résultat de l'enquête, de sa victime. Assuré maintenant du succès de son entreprise, Lord Arthur peut enfin se marier !Quelques années plus tard, en visite chez le couple, lady Windermere confie en aparté à Sybil que M. Podgers était un horrible et avide imposteur et qu'elle même n'avait jamais cru en la chiromancie. Lord Arthur reste, quant à lui, persuadé qu'il doit tout le bonheur de sa vie à la chiromancie.

Oscar Wilde: Ein idealer Gatte. Ein Schauspiel in vier AktenLesefreundlicher Großdruck in 16-pt-SchriftGroßformat, 210 x 297 mmBerliner Ausgabe, 2023Durchgesehener Neusatz bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Theodor Borken»An Ideal Husband«, Erstdruck 1894 mit der Widmung an Frank Harris: »A slight tribute to his power and distinction as an artist, his chivalry and nobility as a friend«. Erstaufführung am 3. Januar 1895 im Haymarket Theater zu London. Hier in der Übersetzung von Alfred Neumann (1874-1939), Erstdruck in »Oscar Wildes sämtliche Werke in deutscher Sprache«, Band 10, Wien / Leipzig, Wiener Verlag, 1908.Der Text dieser Ausgabe wurde behutsam an die neue deutsche Rechtschreibung angepasst.Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unter Verwendung des Bildes: Illustration von Henry Wright zur Premiere des Stücks, abgedruckt in »Illustrated Londown News«, 12. Januar 1895: Mrs. Chevely beschuldigt Sir Robert, mit den Schauspielern Lewis Waller, Florence West und Julia Neilson.Gesetzt aus der Minion Pro, 16 pt.Henricus - Edition Deutsche Klassik GmbHÜber den Autor:1854 in Dublin als zweites von drei Kindern eines bekannten Augenarztes und einer Schriftstellerin geboren, lässt sich Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde nach dem Literaturstudium in Dublin und Oxford in London nieder. Der schlagfertig humorvolle Freimaurer entwickelt sich zu einem berühmt berüchtigten Skandalautor, genießt seinen schlechten Ruf als Dandy und pflegt einen extravaganten Auftritt in samtenen Kniebundhosen mit Seidenstrümpfen. Er wird gehässig karikiert und zugleich für seine Bonmots gefeiert. 30-jährig heiratet der inzwischen weltberühmte Dichter die wohlhabende und bildschöne Kinderautorin Constance Mary Loyd, mit der er zwei Söhne haben wird. 1895 zettelt der Vater seines langjährigen Liebhabers Lord Alfred Douglas einen Prozess wegen der damals schwer bestraften Homosexualität gegen ihn an, der ihn für zwei Jahre ins Zuchthaus bringt. Die menschenverachtenden Haftbedingungen in Isolation und Dunkelheit mit harter Zwangsarbeit ruinieren seine Gesundheit. Nach seiner Entlassung lebt er verarmt, vereinsamt und krank in Paris. Am 30. November 1900 stirbt mit Oscar Wilde ein charismatischer Repräsentant der Dekadenz und eine der schillerndsten Figuren des viktorianischen Englands. 1917 schreibt Alfred Kerr über Oscar Wilde »Seine langsame Hinrichtung bleibt der letzte Akt des Mittelalters.«

Oscar Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. The Happy Prince and Other Tales is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde first published in May 1888. It contains five stories: "The Happy Prince", "The Nightingale and the Rose", "The Selfish Giant", "The Devoted Friend", and "The Remarkable Rocket". These stories explore the ideals of friendship, love, kindness and charity. This collection can be enjoyed both by children as well as adults as underlying the simplistic themes lay metaphorical and allegorical relevant comments on our society.

Lord Illingworth wants to hire Gerald Arbuthnot, a charismatic and flirty male politician, as his secretary. The first scene of the play takes place at a party on a patio on Lady Hunstanton's estate, and the high-class visitors spend the majority of Act I exchanging small chats and social gossip. After some small conversation, they get to discuss Hester's puritanical outlook and her need for privacy.The wealthy women learn that Gerald is the illegitimate child of a scandalous single mother and an aristocracy. Her son is all she has, she begs him to leave him alone.Gerald speaks highly of his mother and wonders why she has never told him about his father as Act III starts. The drama examines a wide range of topics, including humor, tragedy, savages, and global culture. In the last scene, Gerald tries to take his mother home when she requests him to do so. Gerald arrives home alone and is upset that his mother won't acknowledge him as her son. Hester departs to avoid her judgmental mother when he brings his mother home.With the intention of seeing Mrs. Arbuthnot, Lady Hunstanton and Mrs. Allonby are seen entering. When the maid informs them that she has a headache, the two quickly leave after complimenting her taste.

Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray, wurde als ein Hauptwerk in der gesamten Menschheitsgeschichte anerkannt, und wir haben Vorkehrungen getroffen, um seine Bewahrung zu gewährleisten, indem wir dieses Buch in moderner Weise für gegenwärtige und zukünftige Generationen neu herausgeben. Dieses Buch wurde komplett neu abgetippt, überarbeitet und neu formatiert. Der Text ist lesbar und klar, da diese Bücher nicht aus gescannten Kopien erstellt werden.

La grenade, ce fruit généreux, de couleur rouge et aux grains nombreux, euxmêmes couleur de rubis, apparait de manière récurrente dans les quatre contes de ce recueil. Pour Wilde, ce fruit est le symbole du luxe, de la sensualité et d'un orient fabuleux. Dans ces textes, l'auteur traite les thèmes essentiels tels que l'amour, la solitude, la liberté, le culte de l'image, la douleur, la sagesse, la richesse, la séduction et la misère.

Although Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) created a wide range of poetry, essays, and fairy tales (and one novel) in his brief, tragic life, he is perhaps best known as a dramatist. His witty, clever drama, populated by brilliant talkers skilled in the art of riposte and paradox, are still staples of the theatrical repertoire. An Ideal Husband revolves around a blackmail scheme that forces a married couple to reexamine their moral standards - providing, along the way, a wry commentary on the rarity of politicians who can claim to be ethically pure. A supporting cast of young lovers, society matrons, an overbearing father, and a formidable femme fatale continually exchange sparkling repartee, keeping the play moving at a lively pace. Like most of Wilde's plays, this scintillating drawing-room comedy is wise, well-constructed, and deeply satisfying. An instant success at its 1895 debut, the play continues to delight audiences over one hundred years later. An Ideal Husband is a must-read book for Wilde fans, students of English literature, and anyone delighted by wit, urbanity, and timeless sophistication.

""The Soul of Man Under Socialism"" is an 1891 essay by Oscar Wilde in which he expounds a libertarian socialist worldview and a critique of charity. The writing of ""The Soul of Man"" followed Wilde's conversion to anarchist philosophy, following his reading of the works of Peter Kropotkin. In ""The Soul of Man"" 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 realising 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, as Wilde puts it, ""the proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.""

Salome is a one-act tragedy by Oscar Wilde. The original 1891 version of the play was in French; an English translation was published three years later. The play depicts the attempted seduction of Jokanaan (John the Baptist) by Salome, step-daughter of Herod Antipas; her dance of the seven veils; the execution of Jokanaan at Salome's instigation; and her death on Herod's orders. The first production was in Paris in 1896. Because the play depicted biblical characters it was banned in Britain and was not performed publicly there until 1931. The play became popular in Germany, and Wilde's text was taken by the composer Richard Strauss as the basis of his 1905 opera Salome, the international success of which has tended to overshadow Wilde's original play. Film and other adaptations have been made of the play. About the author:Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer, poet and prominent aesthete. Born in Dublin, his parents were successful intellectuals, and from an early age he showed his intelligence, becoming bilingual in French and German, then an outstanding classicist, first at Dublin, then at Oxford. After university, Wilde moved around trying his hand a various literary activities: he published a book of poems, lectured extensively, and wrote journalism prolifically. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress, and glittering conversation Wilde had become one of the most well-known personalities of his day. Though it was his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray - still widely read - that brought him more lasting recognition. He became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London with a series of hilarious social satires which continue to be performed, especially The Importance of Being Earnest. At the height of his fame and success, he suffered a dramatic downfall in a sensational series of trials. Wilde was imprisoned for two years' hard labor after being convicted of "gross indecency" with other men. In prison he wrote De Profundis, a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure. After release from prison he set sail for Dieppe by the night ferry, never to return to Ireland or Britain. In France he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol, a long, terse poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life, but no further creative work. He died in Paris a broken, penniless man. He was only forty-six years old.

""The Canterville Ghost"" is a humorous short story by Oscar Wilde.An American family named Otis moves into an old English mansion called Canterville chase. The owner, Lord Canterville, warns Mr. Otis about the house being haunted. But that does not deter the family, who do not believe in ghosts. But when the notorious Canterville Ghost makes his appearance, the family is not afraid at all. In a role reversal, the ghost is scared after scaring people for more than three hundred years. The ghost considers it a great insult that the American family is not scared of him. He hates them all, except the teenaged Virginia, who is different from the rest of her family. Virginia encounters the ghost at the end of the novel, and accepts his plea for help to lift the curse on him. At the risk of her own life, Virginia travels with the ghost to another dimension, and helps him to finally rest in peace.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.A perfect depiction of fin-de-siècle decadence, Oscar Wilde's only novel highlights the tension between the polished surface and murky depths of Victorian high society.The picture of Dorian Gray is Oscar Wilde's classic story of a young man whose beauty prompts a painter to paint a life-like portrait of him. However, all is not what it seems...Dorian expresses the desire to sell his soul, to ensure that the picture, rather than he, will age andfade. The novel is a social satire as well as a key Explorer of Victorian norms. We are made to observe human emotions like love, jealousy, hate and the forces of evil and good. Oscar Wilde propagates his 'art for art's sake' theory, even as he weaves a narrative around a beautiful young man (Dorian Gray) and his friends (Lord Henry and Basil). The book is a classic in the true sense of the word, as it appeals to the universal instincts of man.

The Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde contains entries from his short sonnets, essays, plays, and letters. There is an immense number of poems from de Profundis which was written while Wilde was in jail. Wilde composed many essays on different authors in which he would reprimand them or acclaim them. Contents:Preface by Robert Ross The Quality of George Meredith Life in the Fallacious Model Life the Disciple Life the Plagiarist The Indispensable East The Influence of the Impressionists on Climate An Exposure to Naturalism Thomas Griffiths Wainewright Wainewright at Hobart Town Cardinal Newman and the Autobiographers Robert Browning ...

Lady Windermere's Fan' is a social satire or a comedy that glances at the social practices, assumptions, and mannerisms of a time frame. It is likewise a satire or a piece that utilizes humour to condemn what is going on. Written by the well-known and infamous, Oscar Wilde, the play was first placed in London in 1892. Wilde is mocking the privileged and moral perspectives (or scarcity in that department) of that time frame. In the play, the standard tropes of mixed-up personality and lost child found are never settled, and it's inferred that characters don't change, proceeding with their obscure ways. The play jabs fun at the social assumptions of Victorian England's high society and the affinity for its 'do as we say, not as we do attitudes.'