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  • The Happy Prince and other tales
    Oscar Wilde
    'I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.' Oscar WildeThe Happy Prince and Other Tales is a collection of stories for all ages 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''. This ...
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  • Cuentos completos
    Oscar Wilde
    Antes de alcanzar fama universal como autor de teatro y brillante conferencista, Oscar Wilde ganó prestigio con la publicación de sus primeros cuentos. La aparición de El crimen de lord Arthur Saville y El fantasma de Canterville, en 1887, le granjeó cierta notoriedad por su irónica manera de abordar dos géneros puramente británicos: la novela de detectives y la novela gótica. ...
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    19,95 €

  • El crimen de Lord Arthur Savile
    Oscar Wilde
    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...
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  • El secreto de la vida
    Oscar Wilde
    Este volumen recoge una amplia selección, ordenada cronológicamente, de los mejores ensayos de Oscar Wilde, un género que el autor subvirtió y enriqueció con recursos propios del teatro y la novela. A lo largo de estos espléndidos textos, el célebre autor indaga en sus obsesiones estéticas, desde los años de su juventud que lo mostraban ya como agudo observador, hasta su trágic...
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  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (Deluxe Library Edition)
    Oscar Wilde
    Dorian Gray is the subject of a full-length portrait in oil by Basil Hallward, an artist who is impressed and infatuated by Dorian’s beauty; he believes that Dorian’s beauty is responsible for the new mode in his art as a painter. Through Basil, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, and he soon is enthralled by the aristocrat’s hedonistic worldview: that beauty and sensual fulfilment...
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    41,68 €

  • The Happy Prince, and other Tales
    Oscar Wilde
    'Wilde’s first authentic work...marked the beginning of his true creativity...Wilde’s stories are splendid.' -Jeanette Winterson'...partly for children and partly for those who have kept the childlike faculties of wonder and joy.'-Jack ZipesOscar Wilde’s The Happy Prince and Other Stories(1888) is an inscrutable, magical fairy tale collection that has filled readers of all ages...
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    6,51 €

  • The Decay of Lying
    Oscar Wilde
    The Decay of Lying: An Observation By Oscar Wilde'The Decay of Lying - An Observation' is an essay by Oscar Wilde included in his collection of essays titled Intentions, published in 1891. This is a significantly revised version of the article that first appeared in the January 1889 issue of The Nineteenth Century.Wilde presents the essay in a Socratic dialogue between with Viv...
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    18,01 €

  • Salomé A Tragedy in One Act
    Oscar Wilde
    Salomé A Tragedy in One Act By Oscar WildeSalome (French: Salomé) is a tragedy by Oscar Wilde. The original 1891 version of the play was in French. Three years later an English translation was published. The play tells in one act the Biblical story of Salome, stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas, who, to her stepfather’s dismay but to the delight of her mother Herodias, r...
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    18,26 €

  • The importance of Being Earnest. A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
    Oscar Wilde
    The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James’s Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personæ to escape burdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play’s major themes are t...
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    17,13 €

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray
    Oscar Wilde
    The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray is a Gothic and philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine. Fearing the story was indecent, the magazine’s editor deleted roughly five hundred words before publication without Wilde’s knowledge. Despite that censorship, The Picture of Dor...
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    17,78 €

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray
    Oscar Wilde
    'How sad it is!' murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. 'How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June. ... If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that-for tha...
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  • The Picture of Dorian Gray
    Oscar Wilde
    'How sad it is!' murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. 'How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June. ... If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that-for tha...
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    20,99 €

  • The Ballad of Reading Gaol
    Oscar Wilde
    'Like two doomed ships that pass in stormWe 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...
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  • The Importance of Being Earnest
    Oscar Wilde
    Jack Worthington is an upstanding gentleman in Victorian society. He just has one secret-he tells everyone that he has a brother named Earnest, when, in reality, Earnest is his alter ego. This allows him a certain duality; he can go out and party as Earnest, but have a sterling reputation as Jack. However, he must merge the two when Jack discovers that his lover, Gwendolyn, wil...
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    6,81 €

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (Royal Collector’s Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
    Oscar Wilde
    Dorian Gray is the subject of a full-length portrait in oil by Basil Hallward, an artist who is impressed and infatuated by Dorian’s beauty; he believes that Dorian’s beauty is responsible for the new mode in his art as a painter. Through Basil, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, and he soon is enthralled by the aristocrat’s hedonistic worldview: that beauty and sensual fulfilment...
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    53,90 €

  • The Portrait of Mr. W. H.
    Oscar Wilde
    The Portrait of Mr. W. H. By Oscar Wilde'The Portrait of Mr. W. H.' is a story written by Oscar Wilde, first published in Blackwood’s Magazine in 1889. It was later added to the collection Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories, though it does not appear in early editions. An enlarged edition planned by Wilde, almost twice as long as the Blackwood’s version, with cover il...
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    18,04 €

  • The Soul of Man
    Oscar Wilde
    The Soul of Man By Oscar Wilde'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 ...
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  • Essays and Lectures
    Oscar Wilde
    Essays and LecturesOscar Wilde***HISTORICAL criticism nowhere occurs as an isolated fact in the civilisation or literature of any people. It is part of that complex working towards freedom which may be described as the revolt against authority. It is merely one facet of that speculative spirit of an innovation, which in the sphere of action produces democracy and revolution, an...
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    17,93 €

  • Intentions
    Oscar Wilde
    IntentionsOscar Wilde Cyril (coming in through the open window from the terrace): My dear Vivian, don’t coop yourself up all day in the library. It is a perfectly lovely afternoon. The air is exquisite. There is a mist upon the woods, like the purple bloom upon a plum. Let us go and lie on the grass and smoke cigarettes and enjoy Nature. Vivian: Enjoy Nature! I am glad to say t...
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    18,02 €

  • De Profundis
    Oscar Wilde
    De Profundis is a letter written by Oscar Wilde during his imprisonment in Reading Gaol, to 'Bosie' (Lord Alfred Douglas).In its first half Wilde recounts their previous relationship and extravagant lifestyle which eventually led to Wilde’s conviction and imprisonment for gross indecency. He indicts both Lord Alfred’s vanity and his own weakness in acceding to those wishes. In ...
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  • A Woman of No Importance
    Oscar Wilde
    A Woman of No ImportanceA Woman of No Importance is a play by Irish playwright Oscar Wilde. The play premièred on 19 April 1893 at London’s Haymarket Theatre. Like Wilde’s other society plays, it satirizes English upper-class society. It has been performed on stages in Europe and North America since his death in 1900. Act IThe Terrace at Hunstanton ChaseThe play opens with a pa...
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  • Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime
    Oscar Wilde
    Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime By Oscar WildeIt was Lady Windermere’s last reception before Easter, and Bentinck House was even more crowded than usual. Six Cabinet Ministers had come on from the Speaker’s Levée in their stars and ribands, all the pretty women wore their smartest dresses, and at the end of the picture-gallery stood the Princess Sophia of Carlsrühe, a heavy Tartar-l...
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  • Vera or, The Nihilists
    Oscar Wilde
    Vera or, The Nihilists By Oscar WildeVera or, The Nihilists is a play by Oscar Wilde. It is a melodramatic tragedy set in Russia and is loosely based on the life of Vera Zasulich. It was Wilde’s first play, and the first to be performed. In 1880, with only a few copies privately printed, arrangements were made with noted actresses for a production in the United Kingdom, but th...
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  • A Critic in Pall Mall
    Oscar Wilde
    A Critic in Pall Mall By Oscar WildeAs one enters Rome from the Via Ostiensis by the Porta San Paolo, the first object that meets the eye is a marble pyramid which stands close at hand on the left. There are many Egyptian obelisks in Rome-tall, snakelike spires of red sandstone, mottled with strange writings, which remind us of the pillars of flame which led the children of Isr...
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    17,92 €

  • An ideal husband
    Oscar Wilde
    An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedic stage play by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honour. The action is set in London, in 'the present', and takes place over the course of twenty-four hours.'Sooner or later,' Wilde notes, 'we shall all have to pay for what we do.' But he adds that, 'No one sho...
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    17,74 €

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (Annotated Keynote Classics)
    Michelle M. White / Michelle MWhite / Oscar Wilde
    Now a revered gothic classic, when this novel was first published it was said to be poisonous and, 'heavy with the mephitic odours of moral and spiritual putrefaction - a gloating study of the mental and physical corruption of a fresh, fair and golden youth . . .' Dorian Gray is granted eternal youth and good looks, but under the influence of a cold and calculating older gentle...
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    16,30 €

  • The Importance of Being Earnest
    Oscar Wilde
    The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 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 the...
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    16,32 €

  • The Importance of Being Earnest
    Oscar Wilde
    The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 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 the...
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    27,22 €

  • The Importance of Being Earnest
    Oscar Wilde
    The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 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. ...
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    14,50 €

  • The Happy Prince and Other Tales
    Oscar Wilde
    “The Happy Prince and Other Tales” is a 1888 collection of children’s short stories by Oscar Wilde. Beautifully illustrated by Walter Crane, these stories include: “The Happy Prince”, “The Nightingale and the Rose”, “The Selfish Giant”, “The Devoted Friend”, and “The Remarkable Rocket”. Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854–1900) was an Irish poet and playwright who became...
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    17,33 €


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