Oscar Wilde Libros

Las obras clásicas de literatura en cada volumen son una representación de los mejores y más famosos escritos de los autores. Una introducción maravillosa a la literatura universal, esta serie hermosamente diseñada pone las obras de los autores mundialmente conocidos al alcance de todos. En este volumen se incluye una selección de sus mejores obras: Canción de navidad y otros cuentos, El retrato de Dorian Gray, De profundis, La importancia de llamarse Ernesto, y por último, El abanico de lady Windermere.

Der Riese ist ein furchtbar selbstsüchtiger Kerl. So schrecklich, dass es nur Sturm, Hagel und Eis bei ihm aushalten. Ein Kind bringt sein Herz zum Schmelzen und holt die Sonne wieder in den Garten. Mit allen Kindern fröhlich in der Sonne zu spielen wird nun seine liebste Beschäftigung. Wie es dazu kam, erzählt das Kunstmärchen von Oscar Wilde: Der selbstsüchtige Riese.

La larga carta de Oscar Wilde desde la prisión a su antiguo amante Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas es una confesión de vida. Para ganarlo, Wilde arriesgó todo: su matrimonio, su familia, su reputación, su fama y su fortuna. En contraste con el rígido espíritu victoriano, Wilde defendió su dandyismo y la celebración de los placeres terrenales, incluso hasta la extravagancia. Esto lo llevó a una caída estrepitosa: un juicio público en el que fue despojado de su identidad. "De profundis" es una conmovedora historia de pasión traicionada y una inigualable declaración de amor. El volumen incluye además otras cartas desde la prisión y la "Balada de la prisión de Reading".

Cuando se publicó El retrato de Dorian Gray, la crítica moralizante acusó a su protagonista de ser una figura satánica, corrompida y corruptora, sin comprender que era el héroe de una novela que reflejaba la fatalidad de los románticos: Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) había querido hacer de la belleza un refinamiento de la inteligencia; y para ello sumió a su protagonista en una atmósfera de perversión dominada por el arte y los poderes de un misterio que está más allá de la realidad. Pero el autor va más allá de la simple descripción: incrusta a su personaje en un crimen y, como Edgar Allan Poe en sus relatos, lo rodea de un misterio que la razón no puede explicar. Dorian Gray sigue siendo, más de cien anos después de la muerte de su autor, una piedra angular en los debates entre la ética y la estética, en las relaciones que mantienen el bien y el mal, el alma y el cuerpo, el arte y la vida. Presidida por la ley de la fatalidad, Dorian Gray no deja de alcanzar el objetivo que el propio Wilde quería para su libro: «Venenoso si ustedes quieren, pero no podrán negar que también es perfecto, y la perfección es la meta a la que apuntamos nosotros los artistas».

Las dos obras que integran este libro son, sin duda, en la producción teatral del autor de El retrato de Dorian Gray, de las más significativas y definitorias.Se caracterizan por su brillante animación, fluidez en los diálogos, acción rápida, y una corriente subterránea de amarga concienciade sí. Esto último abre la vía para una crítica del orden social y moral, que si bien otros concretaron más, en ninguno estuvo acompañada de la calidad que Wilde le imprime.Irlandés, educado en Oxford, Oscar Wilde frecuentó, por su posición y relaciones, los encumbrados círculos de la aristocracia británica, y su crítica mordaz a la sociedad victoriana fue tolerada e incluso celebrada por ésta, hasta que su despreocupación y la intrepidez con que sostuvo su peculiar conducta provocaron la repulsa y un largo proceso cuyo resultado fue su ruina física e intelectual.

En esta colección, se reúnem quatro livros de contos de Oscar Wilde: "O Príncipe Feliz e outros Contos", "O Retrato do Sr. W. H.", "O Crime de Lorde Arthur Savile e outros Contos" y "A Casa das Romãs". La antología incluye algunas de sus historias más famosas, como "O Fantasma de Canterville" y "O Pescador e sua Alma", escritas entre 1888 y 1891, durante uno de los períodos más felices de la vida de Wilde. Él encantaba a los círculos ingleses con sus ironías y la precisión formal de sus textos. Aunque no se adentraba en cuestiones sociales, Wilde abordaba el sufrimiento de los estratos más bajos de la sociedad inglesa, revelando la distancia entre la futilidad de la nobleza y la miseria de los vassalos. Con fina ironía, disecaba los costumbres de la alta burguesía, exponiendo intrigas y traiciones. Sus cuentos, claros y a veces extravagantes, conquistaron a muchos, pero también irritaron a la alta burguesía con sus críticas sutiles. Wilde se preocupaba por los marginalizados de la sociedad, que eran ignorados en la vida cotidiana.

Este libro reúne los cuentos más hermosos y conmovedores de Oscar Wilde, sus relatos más preñados de valores morales. Los protagonistas de estos cuentos alcanzan la felicidad y el amor cuando, renunciando al egoísmo, se muestran amables y generosos y se preocupan por el bien de los demás.

"No deploro ni un solo instante de los que he dedicado al placer. Lo hice plenamente, como deberíamos hacer todo lo que hacemos. No hubo placer que yo no experimentase; eché la perla de mi alma en una copa de vino; descendí por el sendero florido de margaritas al son de las flautas; viví de panales de miel. Pero continuar la misma vida hubiera sido un error, pero habría sido una limitación. Debía ir adelante; la otra mitad del jardín tenía también sus secretos para mí" Los cinco relatos reunidos en este volumen exploran esa otra mitad del jardín, la del dolor, la impiedad, el cinismo, así como la belleza, la ternura y el amor en su más pura expresión, todo matizado a través de su fino sentido del humor.

Una estrella cae del cielo invernal en un bosque, y allí dos pastores encuentran a un extraño infante. Aunque es exquisitamente bello de rostro y forma, el Niño Estrella resulta ser un niño cruel y egoísta. Un día, se burla de una pobre mujer mendiga que, para su horror, luego afirma ser su madre.

Lord Arthur Savile recibe una fuerte impresión durante una fiesta a la que acude junto a su prometida. Un quiromántico lee en su mano que va a cometer un asesinato. Como no hay nada como el deber cumplido, lord Arthur decide posponer su matrimonio para después de cometido el crimen e inicia una estrategia urgente para matar a algún familiar próximo, camuflando el delito como si fuera un accidente. Esta novela corta, o relato largo, ganó admiración y reconocimiento al joven escritor Oscar Wilde, por envidiable capacidad irónica, la brillantez de su trama y la riqueza de su estilo narrativo.

Despite multiple warnings, Horace B. Otis and his family move to Canterville Chase, a sprawling English manor with a dark history and a lingering guest. The Canterville Ghost is an irreverent mix of horror and humor. Canterville Chase is known for its troubled past, having been previously owned by Sir Simon de Canterville, who mysteriously disappeared after the murder of his wife. When the Otis family buys the property, they begin to notice a supernatural presence. However, unlike previous residents, they are more annoyed than afraid. Sir Simon's scare tactics fall flat, leading to a ghostly identity crisis. This entertaining story subverts the expectations of the horror genre, presenting a family-friendly tale with Gothic elements balanced by slapstick humor. Since its publication in 1887, The Canterville Ghost has been adapted across multiple mediums, showcasing its enduring appeal and versatility.

Ensayos y artículos en ellos se expone con fina ironía sus teorías sobre el arte, la literatura, la música, el teatro e incluso la moda, en especial la femenina, como colaborador de la revista The Woman's World. Se extiende también en consideraciones sobre la sociedad victoriana de su tiempo, así como algunas otras del ocaso del siglo XIX que le tocó en suerte vivir.

Quintaesencia del "dandismo", tenemos la imagen de un Oscar Wilde ajeno por completo a las querellas terrenales y consagrado por entero al "arte por el arte". Este volumen de ensayos y notas periodísticas desmienten ese tópico. El escritor irlandés se muestra aquí como intelectual comprometido y muy crítico con las injusticias de este mundo. Wilde aboga por la reconstrucción de la sociedad a partir de unos nuevos cimientos "donde la pobreza sea imposible"

A once selfish giant welcomes the children to his previously forbidden garden and is eventually rewarded by an unusual tiny child.

Jazyková úroveň - Středně pokročilí Wildovy pohádky nejsou odvozeny z lidových pramenů, ale jsou tvorbou výlučně literární. Ne vždy v nich vítězí dobro a zlo nebývá vždy potrestáno, je však souzeno autorovým výsměchem a ironií. Sbírka obsahuje kromě Šťastného prince dále povídky Salvík a růže, Sobecký obr, Oddaný přítel, Podivuhodná raketa, Mladý král a Dítě hvězdy.

This edition marks the centenary of Oscar Wilde’s death, and is the most complete ever to appear. It contains over 1500 of his letters, and anyone unfamiliar with Wilde as a correspondent will find it packed with unexpected delights. This magnificent collection is a major publishing event. Of all nineteenth-century letter writers Oscar Wilde is, predictably, one of the most sparkling. Wonderfully fluent in style, the letters bear that most familiar of Wildean hallmarks – the lightest of touches for the most serious of subjects. He knew and corresponded with many leading political, literary and artistic figures of the time including William Gladstone, George Curzon, W. B. Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Frank Harris, Aubrey Beardsley and Max Beerbohm. Wilde’s letters show him at his informal best. They comment openly on his life and his work from the early years of undergraduate friendship, through his year-long lecture tour in America as a striving and ambitious young ‘Professor of Aesthetics’, to the short period of fame and success in the early 1890s followed by his disgrace and imprisonment. The last and most poignant section covers the five long years between his downfall and his early death in exile at forty-six. Even in adversity his humour does not desert him and he is able to share with his readers that greatest of gifts – the ability to smile at one’s own misfortune.

Oscar Wilde was Ireland’s greatest and most inspired wit. The brilliance of his writing is collected in this complete volume. Readers will relish his only novel The Portrait Dorian Gray; all of his plays including A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and The Importance of being Earnest; essays; poems and stories for both children and adults.

This single volume contains all his work, and demonstrates his range as playwright, story-teller, poet and essayist.

Treachery, blackmail, theft, and above all, self-interest abound in An Ideal Husband, the first drawing-room comedy to address political sleaze. In Wilde's more light-hearted comedy masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest, nothing is sacred. Wilde's dazzling barbed epigrams are directed at all that English high-society holds dear. 'The only pure verbal opera in English' (W.H. Auden), this play presents some of the most celebrated comic scenes in English drama -- Publisher's note on back cover.

"Like two doomed ships that pass in storm We had crossed each other's way: But we made no sign, we said no word, We had no word to say" -Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898) The poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898) by Oscar Wilde, was inspired by the two years he spent in the jail of Reading Gaol, England. There he experienced the hanging of Royal Horse Guards trooper Charles Thomas Wooldridge, convicted for the murder of his wife. This poem, dedicated to Wooldridge, describes not only his execution, but is also an indictment of the Victorian penal system and a plea for reform of prison conditions. This poem, Wilde's last publication, was very successful and assured he had a steady income until his death at a young age in 1900.

This collection contains all the stories, plays and poems by Oscar Wilde, and includes the novel "A Picture of Dorian Gray".

Includes the following works: Novels- The Portrait of Dorian Gray; Plays-Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest; Writings-De Profundis, Critic as Artist, and Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Very Young; and selections from Lady Windermere's Fan, An Ideal Husband, and A Woman of No Importance. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest are accompanied by Wilde's prison memoirs, poems, and selected correspondence

A volume incorporating much of the best of Wilde's The Critic As Artist; The Picture of Dorian Grey; The Soul of Man Under Socialism; Lady Windermere's Fan; The Importance of Being Ernest; The Ballad of Reading Gaol; The Harlot's House; The Sphinx; The Artist; The House of Judgment; A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over Educated.

In print since 1948, this is a single-volume collection of Oscar Wilde's texts. It contains his only novel, The Portrait of Dorian Gray as well as his plays, stories, poems, essays and letters. Illustrated with many photographs, the book includes introductions to each section by Wilde's grandon, Merlin Holoand, Owen Dudley Edwards, Declan Kibertd and Terence Brown. A comprehensive bibliography of works by and about Oscar Wilde together with a chronological table of his life and work are also included.

Here is a collection of this witty and irreverent author's works--all in their most authoritative texts. Includes The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest, and other stories and essays.

This volume contains everything Wilde wrote in dramatic form including his masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest -- printed here in its usual three-act form, but with an appendix containing the best material from the original four-act version. Also included are his three 'problem plays', Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband, as well as his once-banned Salomé and several other little-known but fascinating dramas.

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This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Wilde's poetry and prose short stories, plays, critical dialogues and his only novel - to give the essence of his work and thinking.

A once selfish giant welcomes the children to his previously forbidden garden to play and is eventually rewarded by an unusual tiny child.

Flamboyant and controversial, Oscar Wilde was a dazzling personality, a master of wit, and a dramatic genius whose sparkling comedies contain some of the most brilliant dialogue ever written for the English stage. Here in one volume are his immensely popular novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray; his last literary work, “The Ballad of Reading Gaol,” a product of his own prison experience; and four complete plays: Lady Windermere’s Fan, his first dramatic success, An Ideal Husband, which pokes fun at conventional morality, The Importance of Being Earnest, his finest comedy, and Salomé, a portrait of uncontrollable love originally written in French and faithfully translated by Richard Ellmann. Every selection appears in its entirety–a marvelous collection of outstanding works by the incomparable Oscar Wilde, who’s been aptly called “a lord of language” by Max Beerbohm.

Selected poems, prose fiction, plays, lectures and essays, and letters. With contemporary photographs and illustrations.

The graded readers in this series aim to provide learners of English with a pleasurable reading experience. The series, which should appeal to a wide age range, exposes students to a variety of styles and kinds of English and the books contain puzzles and exercises based on the text.

One of a series designed as an introduction to literature. It is graded into six levels, and each book contains an introduction and exercises. It is designed for students of English as a foreign or as a second language, and for reluctant readers. This book contains two stories by Oscar Wilde.

Reprint. Originally published: New York: Random House, [1969]

"I have the simplest tastes," remarked Oscar Wilde. "I am always satisfied with the best." In this superlative collection of quotations by the great Irish playwright and wit, readers will find the very best of Wilde's scintillating comments on art, human nature, morals, society, politics, history, and numerous other subjects. Epigrams, aphorisms, and other bon mots gleaned from Wilde's enduringly popular plays, essays, and conversation offer amusing, thought-provoking observations that resonate with truth and profundity beneath their comic surface.Widely acknowledged as the most brilliant talker of his age, Wilde once explained to André Gide, "I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works." This fine collection of nearly 400 quotes, organized by category, contains quotations from both his works and his conversation, including gems from his personal life with which even devotees may be unfamiliar. The result is a splendid introduction to Wilde's mind and personality, embodied in a feast of the English language's most brilliant and perceptive witticisms.

This Vintage edition of The Plays of Oscar Wilde contains the plays that made Wilde one of the most important dramatists of his time, including The Importance of Being Earnest, one of the great works of modern literature. Oscar Wilde's plays demonstrate once again why their author must be seen as both an inaugurator and a master of modernism. In his best work, the subversive insights embedded in his wit continue to challenge our common assumptions. Wilde's ability to unsettle and startle us anew with his radical vision of the artifice inherent in the self's construction makes him our contemporary. This edition is introduced by John Lahr, author of Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton. The plays included are Lady Windermere's Fan, Salome, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and The Importance of Being Earnest.

Einem Fischer geht eine wunderschöne Meerjungfrau ins Netz. Er verliebt sich in sie und will sie heiraten. Doch der Preis dafür ist seine Seele. Ist seine Liebe wirklich so groß, dass er ohne Seele leben kann?

Between 1892 and 1895, Oscar Wilde's drawing-room comedies Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest made his name as a playwright who fearlessly mocked the hypocrisy and snobbery of Victorian society and took gleeful delight in appearing to trivialize its most sacred institutions. With its premiere on Valentine's Day 1895, The Importance of Being Earnest – a hilarious comedy of mistaken identities and coruscating language – was a phenomenal success, but its run was cut short prematurely by Wilde's court case and subsequent incarceration, and the play was not published until 1899, after Wilde had been released from prison. Also including the powerful Salome, originally written in French and banned by the British censor, this collection displays Wilde at his provocative and witty best, and demonstrates why he was a playwright who delighted audiences and infuriated critics in equal measure.

A collection of works by Wilde, describing his thoughts on literature and social principles. It includes "The Soul of Man", a manifesto on Individualism, and "De Profundis", an attempt at self-analysis. Also two letters on prison injustices, and "The Ballad of Reading Gaol".

Who would have thought a comedy of manners written more than a hundred years ago would still be so apt and so funny? Oscar Wilde was a genius of play-writing, and his deftness, wit and sharp eye for social satire keep audiences in thrall to this day. Alongside Earnest, discover a biblical tragedy retold, Lady Windermere and her infamous fan and Wilde's take on an ideal husband, in his selection of Wilde's most important plays.

Playwright, novelist, essayist, poet and epigrammatist, Oscar Wilde was Ireland's greatest and most inspired wit. Renowned equally for his espousal of aestheticism and art for art's sake, he became notorious for his affairs with Lord Alfred Douglas and others. Today he is remembered for the brilliance of his writing, and this complete edition of his works contains all his plays, his only novel, The Portrait of Dorian Gray, as well as his essays, poems and stories for children, The Happy Prince and Other Tales, and his more worldly stories for adults, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories. The juxtaposition of his jeux d'esprits such as The Soul of Man under Socialism and The Portrait of Mr. W.H. contrast sharply with The Ballad of Reading Gaol and De Profundis, while Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest still enchant readers and theatre audiences today.

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Oscar Wilde's well-turned phrases and spontaneous insults still cause much amusement and admiration. This book contains quotes most of which are taken from Wilde's plays, novels and essays.

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More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA.

Includes The Portrait of Mr W H, Wilde's defence of Dorian Gray, reviews, and the writings from Intentions (1891): The Decay of Lying, Pen, Pencil, Poison, and The Critic as Artist. This volume presents Wilde as a deep and serious reader of literature and philosophy, and an eloquent thinker about society and art. schovat popis

This Penguin collection contains Oscar Wilde's five wittiest and best known plays. He himself described Lady Windermere's Fan his first great stage success, as 'one of those modern drawing-room plays with pink lampshades'. Its combination of polished social drama and corruscatingly with dialogue was repeated in A Woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband both of which were enthusiastically received by the public but savaged, much to Wilde's delight, by affronted critics. His greatest play, The Importance of Being Earnest was first produced in 1895. Wilde wrote of it : 'It is exquisitely trivial, a delicate bubblue of fancy, and it has its philosophy... that we should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.'This volume also includes Lord Alfred Douglas's translation of Salomé a short drama which Wilde wrote in French.

Двуезични разкази на английски и български език.Тази книга на издателство "Веси" е предназначена за читатели, които са начинаещи в обучението си по английски език.Тук читателят може да се запознае с английския текст в оригинал, без адаптации, като на нечетните страници е преводът на български. Той е направен с цел максимална точност спрямо оригинала на четната страница.

This volume features the works of Oscar Wilde, an influential Irish writer and poet. His only novel, a classic of gothic horror fiction, follows Dorian Gray, a young man whose beauty captivates artist Basil Hallward. Basil becomes infatuated with Dorian, believing his beauty inspires a new artistic vision. Upon meeting Lord Henry Wotton, Dorian is seduced by Henry's hedonistic worldview, which prioritizes beauty and sensory fulfillment. Fearing the loss of his youth, Dorian wishes to sell his soul so that his portrait ages instead of him. This wish leads him into a life of debauchery, with the portrait reflecting the toll of his sins. The collection also includes Wilde's short stories and plays, showcasing his storytelling prowess and stylistic range. Notable selections are "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime," "The Canterville Ghost," and "The Importance of Being Earnest," which humorously critiques Victorian society through characters who adopt false identities. Additionally, "De Profundis," a letter written during Wilde's imprisonment, expresses his disillusionment with Lord Alfred Douglas. "The Ballad of Reading Gaol," composed after his release, memorializes a fellow inmate facing execution. Wilde believed art should guide life by pursuing beauty, emphasizing the importance of the soul and individual self-understanding.

More than 1,000 ripostes, paradoxes, wisecracks: "Work is the curse of the drinking classes," "I can resist everything except temptation," etc.

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, almost a short novel, is a small masterpiece of gentle cynicism where poison, explosive watches, and ultimately the crime are essential preludes to the marriage between the protagonist and a sweet girl. In The Canterville Ghost, a brilliant tale filled with humorous epiphanies, one of the key themes of Wilde's thought appears suddenly: the possibility of redemption. The prophet of neopaganism weighs the exact weight of sin and discovers the mysterious paths of redemption and forgiveness. The Sphinx Without a Secret is a brief narrative with a Maupassant flavor, where all of Wilde's masculinity explodes, while The Model Millionaire is a sort of salon anecdote, pleasing to the Victorian bourgeoisie, told with inimitable grace.

Spellbound before his own portrait, Dorian Gray utters a fateful wish. In exchange for eternal youth he gives his soul, to be corrupted by the malign influence of his mentor, the aesthete and hedonist Lord Henry Wotton.

Set in Padua, this five-act tragedy follows Guido, a young man grappling with his lineage and the murder of his father by the Duke of Padua. Initially driven by revenge, Guido's feelings shift when he falls in love with Beatrice, the Duchess. The narrative unfolds with themes of betrayal and love, culminating in a tragic misunderstanding. Although written for actress Mary Anderson, the play has rarely been performed and is often overshadowed by Wilde's more celebrated works. Critics note its melodramatic tone and Shakespearean influences, yet some appreciate its artistic merit.

Dramatic, full-color artwork highlights nine classic fairy tales by Oscar Wilde that include such poignant favorites as "The Selfish Giant" and "The Happy Prince," collected in this breathtaking new Signature edition.

Oscar Wilde, glamorous and notorious, more famous as a playwright or prisoner than as a poet, invites readers of his verse to meet an unknown and intimate figure.

Wilde's short fiction features masterpieces like 'The Happy Prince', 'The Selfish Giant', and 'The Canterville Ghost', alongside innovative works such as 'The Portrait of Mr. W. H.' and 'Poems in Prose'. This edition highlights their enduring ability to captivate and provoke thought in readers.

A beautifully illustrated collection of Oscar Wilde's favourite children's tales known and loved throughout the world. It includes: The Happy Prince The Selfish Giant The Nightingale and the Rose This gorgeous production brings Wilde's magical stories to a whole new generation.

Oscar Wilde is one of the most quotable of authors, as this collection of extracts from his prose clearly demonstrates. It also illustrates the breadth of interest, from the delightfully comic to the profoundly serious, of this supremely talented but ultimately tragic figure.

These special fairy tales, which Oscar Wilde made up for his own sons, include 'The Happy Prince', who was not as happy as he seemed; 'The Selfish Giant', who learned to love little children; 'The Star Child', who suffered bitter trials when he rejected his parents. . . . Often whimsical and sometimes sad, they all shine with poetry and magic.

'Happy Prince' brings the story of a small swallow that, interrupting their journey toward the sun, decides to help a Prince to bring the happiness to your kingdom.'The Nightingale and The Rose', tells reader about a bird singer that believes much more of love than a boy.

This riverrun edition includes the hitherto uncollected works by one of the twentieth century's most celebrated writers.

A thrillingly spooky tale based upon the story by Oscar Wilde for children growing in reading confidence and ability. The Canterville Ghost has been scaring away new residents in his castle for 500 years, but when the Otis family move in it becomes clear they are just as determined to make him leave. But who will succeed?

These two essays by Oscar Wilde are true literary gems and are part of the collection Intentions from 1891. The Critic as Artist (1890), originally titled The True Function and Value of Criticism, is written in the form of a dialogue between two friends on a starry night. Gilbert (who embodies Wilde's ideas) and Ernest discuss the meaning of art criticism. Wilde argues that all art is immoral and all thought is dangerous; criticism is more creative than creation; the highest criticism reveals in the work of art what the artist did not put there; the true critic is unjust, insincere, and irrational. For Wilde, art and criticism have a subversive value and stand in opposition to society. This leads to the second essay, The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891), where Wilde expresses, perhaps in response to George Bernard Shaw's socialism, his anarchistic ideas (as he admired the Russian anarchist Kropotkin): the abolition of private property, but also of marriage; an attack on all forms of government and all forms of economic organization (including collectivism).

Oscar Wilde is arguably the most quoted man in history. He arrived in New York with nothing to declare but his genius in 1882. On his return to England he had London at his feet. In 1895 he was charged and convicted of homosexual activities. He was born in Dublin in October 1854 and died a broken man in exile in Paris on 30th November 1900. He always said his memory would live on.The importance of being well quoted. The quotes cover Wilde's life from when he was a man sitting on his throne to when he went into the gutter.Full of dazzling with from his plays, stories, poems, essays and letters. For business and everyday life, "nothing succeeds like excess". Quote your genius. - the ForewordNB: Incorrectly there is no apostrophe in the word 'Worlds' [sic] in the title so the book is catalogued accordingly.

Jane Ray poignantly brings to life Oscar Wilde's enchanting masterpiece; the tale of the relationship between a beautiful statue and a little swallow. Perched on high, the prince can see all the misery of the poor, and begs the swallow to help.