Oscar Wilde
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"Aprender ingles de la mano de los autores mas importantes de la literatura universal es posible con esta coleccion. Los Clasicos Bilingues contienen el texto en castellano acompąado pagina a pagina por su version en ingles. Para completar la experiencia de aprendizaje se incluyen una serie de ejercicios para poner en practica los nuevos conocimientos del idioma. Esta novela filosofica fue victima de la censura de la epoca por indecente y con el...
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El señor Otis, Ministro de los Estados Unidos de América, viaja a Inglaterra con su familia y se instala en una casa de campo encantada. Lord Canterville, el anterior propietario de la casa, le advierte que el fantasma de Sir Simon de Canterville la habita desde que mató a su esposa, hace más de tres siglos. El Ministro descarta la historia del fantasma como una patraña y hace caso omiso de las advertencias de Lord Canterville. Cuando los Otis...
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Dorian Gray est un jeune homme d'une très grande beauté. Son ami artiste peintre Basil Hallward est obsédé par cette dernière et en tire toute son inspiration. Sa fascination pour le jeune homme le mène à faire son portrait, qui se révèle être la plus belle œuvre qu'il ait jamais peinte, et qu'il ne souhaite pas exposer : « J'y ai mis trop de moi-même ».
Dorian va faire la connaissance de Lord Henry, dit Harry, un ami de Basil.
4) De Profundis
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Oscar Wilde's autobiographical work on suffering, self-realization, and the artistic process De Profundis (Latin for "from the depths") is Oscar Wilde's reconciliation from a life full of pleasure. In 1891 the author began an intimate relationship with the young aristocrat Lord Alfred Douglas, known to his friends as Bosie. This affair led to speculations about Wilde's sexuality just as his career was reaching its apex. Ultimately, Bosie's father,...
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Oscar Wilde presents a libertarian socialist view of the economic disparities caused by capitalism, that lead to futile acts of charity instead of definitive solutions. Wilde encourages an overhaul of the structures that allow such inequalities to exist.
The Soul of Man Under Socialism is an insightful look into Wilde's personal and political beliefs. Within the essay, he emphasizes individualism over group think, using Jesus Christ as a prime example....
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Gerald Arbuthnot receives a promotion from Lord Illingworth, a worldly politician who has a sordid history of women, one of whom is Gerald's widowed mother. When their connection is revealed, the young man questions his past, present and future aspirations.
A Woman of No Importance opens with a high-class party featuring a group of society's most illustrious citizens. In the midst of the event, Gerald Arbuthnot enters and announces his new position...
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Duke Classics
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2013
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While Oscar Wilde is now strongly associated with the tone of whimsy that imbues his breezy, effortlessly witty epigrams and essays, the Irish writer and playwright was also a serious thinker who, having been sentenced to two years of hard labor as a punishment for his homosexuality, was deeply engaged with the social issues of his day. This essay, penned as a letter to a newspaper soon after Wilde's release from prison, takes up the moral issue
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It is thought that a selection from Oscar Wilde’s early verses may be of interest to a large public at present familiar only with the always popular Ballad of Reading Gaol, also included in this volume. The poems were first collected by their author when he was twenty-sex years old, and though never, until recently, well received by the critics, have survived the test of NINE editions. Readers will be able to make for themselves the obvious and...
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Duke Classics
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"The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People" is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed in February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae to escape burdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play's major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage,...
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Biting wit and lush descriptions combine in this striking new edition of Oscar Wilde's short story collection, which contains Wilde's most famous story, "The Canterville Ghost." Originally published in 1887 in the British literary magazine, The Court and Society Review. "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime: A Study of Duty" headlines this anthology, first published in 1891. In addition to the title work, Wilde added "The Canterville Ghost," "The Model Millionaire,"...
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- Esta edição é única;
- A tradução é completamente original e foi realizada para a Ale. Mar. SAS;
- Todos os direitos reservados.
Dorian Gray, um jovem de extraordinária beleza, teve seu retrato pintado por um pintor. Obcecado pelo medo da velhice, ele consegue, por meio de um feitiço, que todas as marcas que o tempo deixaria em seu rosto apareçam apenas no retrato....
- A tradução é completamente original e foi realizada para a Ale. Mar. SAS;
- Todos os direitos reservados.
Dorian Gray, um jovem de extraordinária beleza, teve seu retrato pintado por um pintor. Obcecado pelo medo da velhice, ele consegue, por meio de um feitiço, que todas as marcas que o tempo deixaria em seu rosto apareçam apenas no retrato....
14) Salomé
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Salomé - Original French text
libreka classics — Ce sont des classiques de l'histoire littéraire, réédités et mis à la disposition d'un large public.
Plongez-vous dans des titres connus et populaires!
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Dover Publications
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2012
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This comprehensive collection showcases Oscar Wilde's brilliant storytelling skills and his amazing stylistic versatility, ranging from fairy tales and ghost stories to detective yarns and comedies of manners. It includes the complete texts of "The Happy Prince and Other Tales," "A House of Pomegranates," "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories," "Poems in Prose," and the critical essay "The Portrait of Mr. W. H."
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BookRix
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2017
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Cette édition contient la traduction française et le texte original en anglais.
"Le Portrait de Dorian Gray" ("The Picture of Dorian Gray") est un roman d'Oscar Wilde, publié en 1890 (révisé en 1891) et écrit dans le contexte de l'époque victorienne. L'auteur y inclut des thèmes relevant de l'esthétique tels que l'art, la beauté, la jeunesse, la morale, l'hédonisme, etc. Le roman est fantastique, mais aussi philosophique, et met en...
"Le Portrait de Dorian Gray" ("The Picture of Dorian Gray") est un roman d'Oscar Wilde, publié en 1890 (révisé en 1891) et écrit dans le contexte de l'époque victorienne. L'auteur y inclut des thèmes relevant de l'esthétique tels que l'art, la beauté, la jeunesse, la morale, l'hédonisme, etc. Le roman est fantastique, mais aussi philosophique, et met en...
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Penguin Publishing Group
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Oscar Wilde’s infamous wit, taste for scandal, and gift for revealing the hypocrisies of fashionable society are on display here in this collection of his finest plays. A genius both of and ahead of his time, he built his craft on the eternal questions of right and wrong—with pithy dialogue as fresh today as when it was written.
In addition to Wilde’s five major plays, this Signet Classics edition contains:
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A young man known as Guido is set upon revenge, planning to murder the duke of Padua, who murdered Guido's father years before. However, Guido soon finds that he has fallen in love with the duke's wife, the duchess of Padua, and their romance complicates Guido's intentions.
Originally composed for a particular actress, Mary Anderson, who eventually rejected the play, The Duchess of Padua was not performed on the stage until years after its composition....
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After becoming involved with the Nihilist movement and being trained as an assassin, Vera falls in love with Alexis, another member of the group. But Vera soon finds out that the truth about Alexis puts the two of them at odds, and she will have to choose between him and her cause.
Loosely based on the life of Russian revolutionary Vera Zasulich, Vera was not performed until years after it was written, when an American actress, Marie Prescott, and...
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Extrait : "Nous perçûmes le bruit cadencé de pas de danseurs ; nous suivîmes, en flânant, la rue éclairée par la lune et nous arrêtâmes devant la maison de la Courtisane. De l'intérieur, à travers le tumulte, le désordre, nous entendions les musiciens jouer à grand bruit le Cœur cher et fidèle de Strauss."
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