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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY IRVINE WELSHDorian is a good-natured young man until he discovers the power of his own exceptional beauty. As he gradually sinks deep into a frivolous, glamorous world of selfish luxury, he apparently remains physically unchanged by the stresses of his corrupt lifestyle and untouched by age. But up in his attic, hidden behind a curtain, his portrait tells a different story...

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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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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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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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In May of 1895 Oscar Wilde, the century's most dazzling man of letters, was sentenced to two years with hard labour for 'acts of gross indecency with another male person.' On his release he moved to France, where he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol: an indictment of the prison system and the death penalty, an anguished plea for prison reform, and a passionate expression of sympathy for his fellow prisoners, those 'souls in pain'. The Ballad of Reading Gaol was a success from its first publication, and to this day some of its lines are among the most famous in the English language. Peter Hay's powerful images are retained in this new edition which contains an Afterword by Peter Stoneley, drawing on unpublished material in the prison archives.

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When the Selfish Giant decides to build a wall around his garden to prevent the children from playing in it, it becomes barren and stuck in perpetual winter. It takes a wonderful event and the heart of a young boy for him to realize the error of his ways. A classic tale for children, 'The Selfish Giant' is presented here with all of Oscar Wilde's other fairy stories - 'The Happy Prince', 'The Nightingale and the Rose', 'The Devoted Friend', 'The Remarkable Rocket', 'The Young King', 'The Birthday of the Infanta', 'The Fisherman and His Soul' and 'The Star-Child' - brought to life by Philip Waechter's bright and imaginative illustrations.

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In Praise of Disobedience draws on works from a single miraculous year in which Oscar Wilde published the larger part of his greatest works in prose - the year he came into maturity as an artist. Before the end of 1891, he had written the first of his phenomenally successful plays and met the young man who would win his heart, beginning the love affair that would lead to imprisonment and public infamy. In a witty introduction, playwright, novelist and Wilde scholar Neil Bartlett explains what made this point in the writer's life central to his genius and why Wilde remains a provocative and radical figure to this day. Included here are the entirety of Wilde's foray into political philosophy, The Soul of Man Under Socialism; the complete essay collection Intentions; selections from The Picture of Dorian Gray as well as its paradoxical and scandalous preface; and some of Wilde's greatest fictions for children. Each selection is accompanied by stimulating and enlightening annotations. A delight for fans of Oscar Wilde, In Praise of Disobedience will revitalize an often misunderstood legacy.

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'The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.' When Dorian Gray has his portrait painted, he is captivated by his own beauty. Tempted by his world-weary, decadent friend Lord Henry Wotton, he wishes to stay forever young, and pledges his very soul to keep his good looks. Set in fin-de-siécle London, the novel traces a path from the studio of painter Basil Hallward to the opium dens of the East End. As Dorian's slide into crime and cruelty progresses he stays magically youthful, while his beautiful portrait changes, revealing the hideous corruption of moral decay. Ever since its first publication in 1890 Wilde's only novel has remained the subject of critical controversy. Acclaimed by some as an instructive moral tale, it has been denounced by others for its implicit immorality. Combining elements of the supernatural, aestheticism, and the Gothic, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an unclassifiable and uniquely unsettling work of fiction. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners - the stories collected in this volume made Oscar Wilde's name as a writer of fiction, showing breathtaking dexterity in a wide range of literary styles. Victorian moral justice is comically inverted in 'Lord Arthur Savile's Crime' and 'The Canterville Ghost', and society's materialism comes under sharp, humorous criticism in 'The Model Millionaire', while 'The Happy Prince' and 'The Nightingale and the Rose' are hauntingly melancholic in their magical evocations of selfless love. These small masterpieces convey the brilliance of Wilde's vision, exploring complex moral issues through an elegant juxtaposition of wit and sentiment.

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La colección Poesía portátil brinda esta preciosa edición de La balada de la cárcel de Reading, unos de los principales testamentos vitales y literarios de Oscar Wilde que escribió tras una etapa crítica en su vida: su encarcelamiento.A principios de 1895 Oscar Wilde estaba en la cumbre de su carrera y gozaba de un reconocimiento envidiable. Escribía obras de teatro sin pausa y sin demasiado esfuerzo, y se mezclaba con la flor y nata de Londres. Asimismo, mantenía una relación con el joven y ambicioso lord Alfred Douglas, a quien había conocido cuatro años atrás. Pero en mayo de ese mismo año entró en prisión, con su reputación arruinada, para sufrir una condena cuya severidad estaba más allá de su imaginación.Tras ser el protagonista de un escándalo por conducta indecente y soportar la vergüenza de un terrible proceso, Wilde alumbró en la cárcel una obra maestra: La balada de la cárcel de Reading, un maravilloso poema donde el ahorcamiento de un compañero le

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Grandes Clásicos Literatura Random House recupera en esta preciosa edición El retrato de Dorian Gray, la maravillosa obra maestra de Oscar Wilde.En su única novela, el divino Oscar Wilde puso al día el mito de Fausto. En este caso, la víctima es Dorian Gray, un bello y presuntuoso joven a quien un amigo hace un retrato al óleo. Cuando Dorian trabe amistad con lord Henry Wotton, un cínico filósofo, este le convencerá de que sus más valiosas posesiones son su belleza y su juventud. Y, a partir de ahí, su deseo de que su retrato envejezca mientras él permanece joven se hace realidad. Pero a qué precio?Estamos, simple y llanamente, ante uno de los libros más bellos e ingeniosos de todos los tiempos.Luis Antonio de Villena dijo...Un libro lleno de fascinación y encanto, fácil y difícil a la vez, y cuyo único protagonista y tema esencial es la belleza. Una de las pasiones que hacen vivir y dan sentido y fuerza al mundo.

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Tal vez sea El fantasma de Canterville el cuento más conocido y celebrado de Oscar Wilde, como inolvidables son las cóleras de ese pobre fantasma anacrónico, que no sólo no logra asustar a sus inquilinos, sino que acaba siendo juguete y víctima de dos niños terribles. Inolvidable es también El crimen de lord Arthur Savile, esa pequeña obra maestra que cuenta la divertida historia de un buen lord, desesperado porque nunca le sale bien el crimen que quiere cometer cuanto antes para librarse de un ominoso destino. La esfinge sin secreto y El modelo millonario cierran este volumen delicioso, donde campean el humor, la ironía y la elegancia de la prosa de Wilde.

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?El Retrato de Dorian Gray? es la novela más famosa del escritor irlandés Oscar Wilde (1854-1900). Un joven llamado Dorian Gray es seducido por el hedonismo de su nuevo círculo social y empieza a vivir la vida de un libertino en constante búsqueda del placer después de adquirir un impresionante y misterioso retrato de sí mismo, pintado por un amigo. La novela explora temas filosóficos tan complejos como la duplicidad del alma humana y la reverencia por la belleza y el placer. La novela causó gran revuelo en los críticos y lectores británicos de la época, por su supuesta inmoralidad e indecencia y despertó en Wilde una defensa furiosa del proceso creativo y la importancia de la libertad en la expresión artística. La presente edición contiene ilustraciones de Alejandro Díaz y está presentada en formato de 13,5 x 19 cms, con encuadernación tapa dura y marca páginas de hilo.

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"Tener buen aspecto y estar bien vestido es una necesidad. Tener un propósito en la vida, no.""La moda es tan sólo una forma de fealdad tan absolutamente insoportable que debemos cambiarla cada seis meses."

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