Oscar Wilde
Список книг автора Oscar WildeThe Duchess of Padua
‘The Duchess of Padua’ is a five-act play by Oscar Wilde which was originally written for actress Mary Anderson in 1883. Due to her rejection of the play, it was not performed. It later appeared in its first publication in German in 1904. Fans of Wilde will delight in this fine play of his.
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
"The Happy Prince and Other Tales" is a collection of whimisical short stories by Oscar Wilde. This collections includes the following tales: The Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose, The Selfish Giant, The Devoted Friend, and The Remarkable Rocket. Readers of all ages will be delighted by these fanciful tales.
The Soul of Man Under Socialism
In The Soul of Man under Socialism Oscar Wilde expounds on an anarchist world view. Wilde argues that under capitalism the majority of people spoil their lives by an unhealthy and exaggerated altruism-are forced, indeed, so to spoil them: instead of realizing their true talents, they waste their time solving the social problems caused by capitalism, without taking their common cause away. Thus, caring people seriously and very sentimentally set themselves to the task of remedying the evils that they see in poverty, but their remedies do not cure the disease: they merely prolong it because, the proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.
The Pictures of Dorian Gray
"The Picture of Dorian Gray" is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde. It appeared as the lead story in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. The magazine's editors feared the story was indecent as submitted, so they censored roughly 500 words, without Wilde's knowledge, before publication. Even so, the story was greeted with outrage by British reviewers, some of whom suggested that Wilde should be prosecuted on moral grounds, leading Wilde to defend the novel aggressively in letters to the British press. Wilde later revised the story for book publication, making substantial alterations, deleting controversial passages, adding new chapters and including an aphoristic Preface which has since become famous in its own right. The amended version was published by Ward, Lock and Company in April 1891. Some scholars believe that Wilde would today have wanted us to read the version he originally submitted to Lippincott's. Both the 1890 and 1891 versions are included in this publication
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Believe me, no civilised man ever regrets a pleasure…As London slides from one century into the next, a young man is cursed with the uncanny ability to remain both young and beautiful while descending into a life of heartless debauchery. With its glittering dialogue, provocative imagery and radical questioning of sexual and moral freedoms all brought sharply into focus by this brand-new adaptation, Oscar Wilde’s infamous parable has lost none of its power to provoke and disturb.Using Wilde’s original words, a company of sixteen actors and all of adaptor Neil Bartlett’s trademark theatricality, this new stage version of Wilde’s black-hearted parable was commissioned by and first produced at the Abbey Theatre, Ireland’s national theatre in the autumn season of 2012.
The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde
This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works – the Œuvre – of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook – 5680 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • The Picture of Dorian Gray • The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People • An Ideal Husband • The Happy Prince, and Other Tales • The Canterville Ghost • De Profundis • A Woman of No Importance • Lady Windermere's Fan • The Happy Prince and Other Tales • The Picture of Dorian Gray • The Ballad of Reading Gaol • The Picture of Dorian Gray • Salomé • Intentions • The Soul of Man under Socialism • Essays and Lectures • Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol • A House of Pomegranates • Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde • Lord Arthur Savile's Crime; The Portrait of Mr. W.H., and Other Stories • Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man • The Importance of Being Earnest • The Picture of Dorian Gray • Reviews • Vera; Or, The Nihilists • The Happy Prince and Other Tales • Selected Poems of • Poèmes (Französisch) • A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies • The Duchess of Padua • Impressions of America • Miscellanies • The Canterville Ghost • Shorter Prose Pieces • Charmides, and Other Poems • De Profundis • For Love of the King • A Florentine Tragedy; La Sainte Courtisane • Children in Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life •.etc.