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.

Joven agraciado y bellísimo, dotado de 'toda la pasión del espíritu romántico y toda la perfección de lo griego', Dorian Gray es, cuando lo retrata el distinguido pintor Basil Hallward, la encarnación de la armonía vital incorrupta. Sin embargo, inevitablemente, las pasiones, la maldad, el impetuoso torrente de la vida, irrumpen en su existencia. Para su asombro, Gray descubre que es su retrato quien va asumiendo su deterioro físico y moral, protegiendo, en apariencia, su inmaculada imagen.

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.

Los relatos reunidos en este volumen dan cuenta del enorme genio de Oscar Wilde (Dublín, 1854 - París, 1900), una de las figuras más fascinantes y magnéticas de las letras en lengua inglesa, estandarte del dandismo, que consagró vida y obra a un proyecto común cuya máxima aspiración fue cultivar la belleza. Durante toda su vida fue un convencido militante del esteticismo, hasta que su ingreso en prisión, condenado por atentar contra la moral pública, marcó el inicio de su declive. Novelista, poeta, crítico literario y dramaturgo, Wilde debe en buena medida su popularidad a la única novela que escribió, El retrato de Dorian Gray (1890). La presente selección constituye una panorámica fabulosa de la producción del escritor irlandés en el ámbito del cuento, reunida casi toda en los tres libros de relatos que publicó en vida: El príncipe feliz y otros cuentos, El crimen de lord Arthur Savile y otras historias y Una casa de granadas.

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.

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.

Una selección de las mejores narraciones de Wilde, además de El fantasma de Canterville, este volumen incluye: El crimen de lord Arthur Savile, El modelo millonario, El joven rey, El cumpleaños de la infanta, El niño estrella, El príncipe feliz, El pescador y su alma, y otros relatos breves. Dotado de un fino espíritu crítico, el autor desprecia la moral burguesa y busca en sus obras la provocación mediante el humor fino e irónico, creando una atmósfera alegre que le permite dominar la técnica dramática. En El fantasma de Canterville , una familia americana adquiere Canterville Chase, un castillo inglés embrujado; pero lejos de asustarse, la familia hace todo lo que puede para desembarazarse de este fantasma. Con suma maestría, Oscar Wilde parodia el cuento de terror y aprovecha para criticar el materialismo burgués.

Las 'Obras Maestras de Oscar Wilde' reúnen las obras más destacadas de este autor del siglo XIX, combinando ironía, ingenio y crítica social. A través de cuentos, ensayos y teatro, Wilde aborda temas como la moralidad y la hipocresía, ofreciendo diálogos inteligentes y personajes complejos que invitan a la reflexión. Un tesoro literario atemporal.

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.

"Las Grandes Obras de Oscar Wilde" reúne las obras más emblemáticas del autor británico, como "El Retrato de Dorian Gray" y "La Importancia de Llamarse Ernesto". Con un estilo satírico, Wilde critica la hipocresía de la sociedad victoriana, ofreciendo una profunda reflexión sobre el amor, la belleza y la moralidad. Un legado literario imprescindible.

"Una mujer sin importancia" de Oscar Wilde es una comedia de la alta sociedad victoriana que critica las normas sociales hipócritas. Con diálogos agudos y humor irónico, Wilde reflexiona sobre la moralidad y el papel de la mujer. Su estilo elegante y su crítica social hacen de esta obra un clásico imprescindible y entretenido.

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.

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.

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.

The collection features Oscar Wilde's poignant fairytales, beautifully presented in a luxurious hardcover edition. Accompanied by original artwork from Yuko Shimizu, these stories explore themes of love, loss, and morality. An introduction by Michael Cunningham adds depth, offering insights into Wilde's literary significance and the timeless nature of his tales.

One of the greatest playwrights in the English language, Oscar Wilde was also a legendary wit and a poetic provocateur. He was put on trial and sentenced to two years of hard labor for "gross indecency" by the same English society whose hypocrisy he had put on stage to great effect. His refusal to renounce his homosexuality and love for Lord Alfred Douglas ("Bosie") made him first a martyr and later an icon for free love and a myth onto himself. This edition of surviving letters that Wilde wrote to his "own dear darling boy" is a testament to the enduring power and radical force of love. Included are the introductory essays by legendary bookseller A. S. W. Rosenbach and philanthropist William Clark, who first published these letters in 1924, and a little-known letter from Douglas to Wilde.

"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.

He was brilliant, flamboyant, and unconventional, one of the great figures of his--or any other--age. Although Oscar Wilde's reputation now rests primarily on his sparkling, sophisticated plays with their razor-sharp wit, his body of work goes far beyond even those. Here, in one volume, is the sum of his artistic genius: all his stories, plays, fairy tales, and poems, complete with period illustrations. To find evidence of Wilde's theatrical savvy, one need look no further than The Importance of Being Earnest and An Ideal Husband, both of which satirize and humorously highlight the hypocrisy of Victorian life. The Picture of Dorian Gray captures a profound knowledge of the depths to which the human soul can plunge, and in the years since it was written, its final moments have lost none of their power. In his fairy stories, including The Happy Prince and Other Tales, written for his own children, Wilde reveals heights of tenderness and beauty. There are classics like the Canterville Ghost and more. More than 850 pages worth!

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.

Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace, artistry and wit, of which the best-known is The Happy Prince. Counterpoints to this were his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, which shocked and outraged many readers of his day, and his stories for adults which exhibited his fascination with the relations between serene art and decadent life. Wilde took London by storm with his plays, particularly his masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest. His essays - in particular De Profundis- and his Ballad of Reading Gaol, both written after his release from prison, strikingly break the bounds of his usual expressive range. His other essays and poems are all included in this comprehensive collection of the works of one of the most exciting writers of the late nineteenth century.

Including some of Oscar Wilde's most well-known and infamous plays, 'Lady Windermere's Fan', 'A Woman of No Importance', 'An Ideal Husband' and 'The Importance of Being Earnest', this collection of the writer's works displays his brilliant, quick wit to its full glory.

This is a graded reading series with language support on every page. These readers are ideal for students who need extra motivation and a more structured reading program.

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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.

Reader mit CD-ROM/Audio-CD Ein unfreundlicher Riese vertreibt alle Kinder aus seinem Garten und errichtet eine hohe Mauer um das Grundstück. Selbstsüchtig wie er ist beschließt er, dass niemand außer ihm selbst den wunderbaren Garten betreten darf. Als der Frühling ins Land zieht, bleibt es im Garten des Riesen jedoch frostig und kalt. Eines Morgens erwartet den Riesen eine wunderbare Überraschung: Was sieht er da in seinem Garten?

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

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.

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?

Though best known for his drama and fiction, Oscar Wilde was also a pioneering critic. He introduced the idea that criticism was an act of creation, not just appraisal. Wilde transformed the genre by extending its ambit beyond art to include society itself, all while injecting it with his trademark wit and style.

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".

This selection includes five of Wilde's wittiest and best-known plays of which the title (play) "The Importance ..." is his most famous

An exceptionally handsome, large-format gift edition of timeless fairy tales by Oscar Wilde. Spectacular full-color paintings illustrate six of Wilde's best-loved stories, including "The Happy Prince", "The Nightingale and the Rose", and "The Selfish Giant". Full-color illustrations.

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.

When Sir Robert Chiltern is threatened with blackmail, his only escape is to turn the tables on the blackmailer. This play is an exploration of social hypocrisy. Ideal for group.

‘I can not think otherwise than in stories.’ By all accounts the stories we know today represent only a fraction of those with which Oscar Wilde enchanted his listeners. Now for the first time in one volume we have a complete collection of all the short fiction he published and it clearly shows his versatility and skill as a storyteller, too often overshadowed by his reputation as dramatist, critical theorist, and novelist. This new edition includes contains such well-known fairy tales as 'The Happy Prince,' 'The Young King', and 'The Fisherman and his Soul'; witty social and literary parody in 'Lord Arthur Savile's Crime' and identification of the mysterious dedicatee of Shakespeare's Sonnets, and some of the parables he most characteristically delivered, which he called 'Poems in Prose'.

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

Featuring a selection of Oscar Wilde's finest poetry, this collection includes the standout piece "My Voice." It showcases the wit and beauty characteristic of Wilde's work, highlighting his significance as a prominent poet of the nineteenth century. This compilation is a celebration of his lyrical talent and enduring influence in the literary world.

Oscar Wilde, the witty Irishman, became a celebrity in Victorian London's salons, where his clever remarks and performances inspired his society comedies. A self-identified socialist, he lived extravagantly and openly embraced his sexuality. Ultimately, he faced a scandalous trial for homosexuality, leading to his artistic and social ruin. His famous quotes are compiled here.

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.