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High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince. He was gilded all over with thin leaves of fine gold, for eyes he had two bright sapphires, and a large red ruby glowed on his sword-hilt.The Happy Prince and Other Tales is a collection of five stories: 'The Happy Prince', 'The Nightingale and the Rose', 'The Selfish Giant', 'The Devoted Friend', and 'The Remarkable Rocket'. The Happy Prince stars the statue of the Prince, who persuades a swallow to deliver his gold and jewels to the poor and needy in his city.Liberty of London and Faber & Faber both offer peerless quality and unrivalled originality. Liberty of London's patterned, print and floral fabrics are world famous. This partnership brings together the best writers with one of the foremost design teams to create books that will be coveted by artistic shoppers and book lovers the world over.

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The full text of Oscar Wilde''s beloved comedy of manners, including exclusive commentary, selections from Wilde''s correspondence, and excerpts from the original four-act version.The Importance of Being Earnest shows a full measure of Oscar Wilde''s legendary wit, and embodies more than any of his other plays his decency and warmth. This edition contains substantial excerpts from the original four-act version which was never produced, as well as the full text of the final three-act version, selections from Wilde''s correspondence, and commentary by George Bernard Shaw, Max Beerbohm, St. John Hankin, and James Agate.“It is exquisitely trivial, a delicate bubble of fancy and it has its philosophy; that we should treat all trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.” -Oscar Wilde

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Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Oscar Wilde's undying comedy – in an edition to fit any handbag. Jack Worthing pretends to be Earnest to avoid certain social obligations. But Gwendolen has fallen in love with him as Earnest - and he with her. Quizzed as to his origins by her aunt Lady Bracknell, Jack has to admit to being found in a handbag. After further complications involving Jack's friend Algernon, who is also passing himself off as Earnest, Jack's true origins are revealed. Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest was first performed in February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London. This edition in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series includes an introduction by Dan Rebellato.

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A graphic novel that features a materialistic American family that moves into the English mansion of Canterville Chase, much to the annoyance of the resident ghost.

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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.

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Pearson English Readers bring language learning to life through the joy of reading. Well-written stories entertain us, make us think, and keep our interest page after page. Pearson English Readers offer teenage and adult learners a huge range of titles, all featuring carefully graded language to make them accessible to learners of all abilities. Through the imagination of some of the world’s greatest authors, the English language comes to life in pages of our Readers. Students have the pleasure and satisfaction of reading these stories in English, and at the same time develop a broader vocabulary, greater comprehension and reading fluency, improved grammar, and greater confidence and ability to express themselves. Find out more at english.com/readers

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'It would be unfair to expect other people to be as remarkable as oneself'Wilde's celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous biographers, the stupidity of the English - and his own genius. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

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Oscar Wilde—a playwright, poet, author, and the source of a few scandals—was one of the most celebrated authors of his time and continues to inspire fervor in readers to this day.Oscar Wilde fue uno de los autores mÁs celebrados de su tiempo y todavÍa hoy, a mÁs de cien aÑos de su temprana muerte, sigue cosechando el fervor de los lectores. Dramaturgo, poeta, narrador, intelectual agudo pero tambiÉn escandaloso para su Época.

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Encuadernación: Rústica con solapasColección: Letras clásicas ; 14Contiene los siguientes títulos:- La decadencia de la mentira-Pluma, pincel y veneno- El crítico como artista- La verdad de las máscarasNo cabe duda de que la fama de Oscar Wilde se fundamenta sobre todo en su obra de ficción. Su única novela, El retrato de Dorian Gray (1890), se ha llevado al cine en diversas ocasiones y sus obras dramáticas, también presentes en la pantalla, siguen llenando los teatros de todo el mundo. Y qué decir de sus cuentos, piezas clásicas con las que los niños actuales aprenden la lengua inglesa, o el impresionante poema autobiográfico La balada de la cárcel de Reading (1898), o su De profundis (1905), que es, dentro del género epistolar, una obra maestra que conmueve y subleva a un mismo tiempo: quizás el ajuste de cuentas más sobrecogedor de la historia de la literatura.Pero hay otra faceta de Wilde, no tan popular aunque él le concediera gran importancia: su la

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El presente volumen recoge los relatos en los que brilla el Oscar Wilde más irónico e ingenioso. Además del célebre cuento que tiene como protagonista a ?El fantasma de Canterville?, melancólico y asendereado, completan el libro El crimen de lord Arthur Savile, La esfinge sin secreto y El modelo millonario. Otras obras del mismo autor en esta colección: El retrato de Dorian Gray, El Príncipe Feliz / Una casa de granadas y De profundis / Balada de la cárcel de Reading.

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La otra cara de Dorian GrayJavier de Isusi reinterpreta la novela de Oscar Wilde, que descubrió con 11 años en el cine con la versión de 1945 de Albert LewinEl retrato de Dorian Gray, obra del escritor inglés Oscar Wilde, continúa, con ilustraciones del dibujante Javier de Isusi, la colección Clásicos Ilustrados de Astiberri, donde una novela completa de un autor de referencia de la literatura es interpretada gráficamente por un dibujante de cómicscon una serie de ilustraciones distribuidas a lo largo del libro principalmente a toda página.Javier de Isusi ha abordado este clásico desde la admiración, en tanto que es una de sus lecturas favoritas: Lo descubrí con once años, cuando vi la versión que en 1945 hizo para el cine Albert Lewin, y me quedé muy impresionado. Cuando años después leí el libro me gustó aún más y después haría con unos amigos una adaptación para obra de teatro , confiesa el ilustrador vasco.El acercamiento del autor de la serie de cuatro novelas gráf

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En la ciudad de Londres destaca una estatua dorada del Príncipe Feliz. Una solitaria golondrina, en su migración a Egipto, traba amistad con el Príncipe y descubre su secreto El príncipe tan sólo desea evitar la miseria de la ciudad! Conseguirán una estatua y una golondrina cambiar la situación de los más desfavorecidos?Descúbrelo en esta adaptación la obra de Oscar Wilde!

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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, a beloved Gothic masterpiece of supernatural terror, is now available in an exquisite hardcover edition, featuring a striking cover and distinctive interior design elements, making it ideal for fiction lovers, horror fans, and book collectors. Each collectible volume will be the perfect addition to any well-appointed library.Harper Muse Classics: The Gothic Chronicles Collection presents The Picture of Dorian Gray: Presents Oscar Wilde''s unsettling Gothic tale of a man who sells his soul in exchange for eternal youth but who also pays for its tragic ramifications; its 1890 publication helped secure Wilde''s place in literature''s pantheon of great writers Explores such themes as the narcissistic worship of youth and beauty, the corrupting power of influen

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“And I? May I say nothing, my lord?” With these words, Oscar Wilde’s courtroom trials came to a close. The lord in question, High Court justice Sir Alfred Wills, sent Wilde to the cells, sentenced to two years in prison with hard labor for the crime of “gross indecency” with other men. As cries of “shame” emanated from the gallery, the convicted aesthete was roundly silenced.But he did not remain so. Behind bars and in the period immediately after his release, Wilde wrote two of his most powerful works—the long autobiographical letter De Profundis and an expansive best-selling poem, The Ballad of Reading Gaol. In The Annotated Prison Writings of Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel collects these and other prison writings, accompanied by historical illustrations and his rich facing-page annotations. As Frankel shows, Wilde experienced prison conditions designed to break even the toughest spirit, and yet his writings from this period display an imaginative and verbal brilliance left largely intact. Wilde also remained politically steadfast, determined that his writings should inspire improvements to Victorian England’s grotesque regimes of punishment. But while his reformist impulse spoke to his moment, Wilde also wrote for eternity.At once a savage indictment of the society that jailed him and a moving testimony to private sufferings, Wilde’s prison writings—illuminated by Frankel’s extensive notes—reveal a very different man from the famous dandy and aesthete who shocked and amused the English-speaking world.

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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.’ 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 infamous writer’s works displays his brilliant, quick wit to its full glory. Wilde’s pithy social comedies dissect the morals and idiosyncrasies of society in the 1890s and offer a view of the sexual politics of the time.

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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young… If it was only the other way!' Wilde's first and only published novel recounts the story of handsome Dorian Gray who upon having his portrait painted desires that it will age and grow ugly while he may remain eternally beautiful. The painting, which reflects each of Gray's sins and transgressions in its hideousness, haunts him until it finally becomes unbearable. In this dark tale of duplicity and mortality, Wilde creates a world where art and reality collide.

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In the library of a country house in Nottinghamshire, Vivian is writing an article about the importance of lying, when he is interrupted by Cyril, who tries to tempt him away, but instead is drawn into a discussion about art, nature, literature and imagination. The Decay of Lying sees Wilde explore his deepest preoccupations about the relationship between life and art, and examine the work of such writers as Shakespeare and Balzac.

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Dorian Gray is having his picture painted by Basil Hallward, who is charmed by his looks. But when Sir Henry Wotton visits and seduces Dorian into the worship of youthful beauty with an intoxicating speech, Dorian makes a wish he will live to regret: that all the marks of age will now be reflected in the portrait rather than on Dorian's own face. The stage is now set for a masterful tale about appearance, reality, art, life, truth, fiction and the burden of conscience. Oscar Wilde's only full-length novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray is a lasting gem of sophisticated wit and playfulness, which brings together all the best elements of his talent in a reinterpretation of the Faustian myth.

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The Penguin English Library Edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde'I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me ... Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day - mock me horribly!'A story of evil, debauchery and scandal, Oscar Wilde's only novel tells of Dorian Gray, a beautiful yet corrupt man. When he wishes that a perfect portrait of himself would bear the signs of ageing in his place, the picture becomes his hideous secret, as it follows Dorian's own downward spiral into cruelty and depravity. The Picture of Dorian Gray is a masterpiece of the evil in men's hearts, and is as controversial and alluring as Wilde himself.The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

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Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence. The novel was a succès de scandale and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895. It has lost none of its power to fascinate and disturb.

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In 'The Decay of Lying' Oscar Wilde uses his decadent ideology in an attempt to reverse and therefore reject his audiences' 'normal' conceptualizations of nature, art and morality. Wilde's views of life and art are illustrated through the use of Platonic dialogue where the character Vivian takes on the persona of Wilde. Wilde's goal is to subvert the norm by reversing its values. Wilde suggests to us that society is wrong, not him. Calling on diverse examples - from Ancient Greek sculpture to contemporary paintings - Oscar Wilde's brilliant essay creates a witty, paradoxical world in which the only Art worth loving is that built on complete untruths.

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De Oscar Wilde se recuerdan infinidad de frases ingeniosas, punzantes e irónicas, escritas para sus obras de teatro o pronunciadas en los elegantes salones de Londres a finales del siglo XIX, pero el escritor irlandés también supo escribir de las penurias de la prisión y del desasosiego, del abandono y la ruina. Este libro reúne tres títulos íntimamente relacionados con el paso de Wilde por la cárcel: 'De profundis', 'La balada de la cárcel de Reading' y 'Dos cartas al Daily Chronicle'. Con nueva traducción, prólogo de Alfredo Taján e ilustraciones de Cintia Gutiérrez, estas páginas exponen al Wilde más íntimo.

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