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First performed in 1895, "An Ideal Husband" is Oscar Wilde's classic and much-loved comedic drama. The play tells the story of an up-and-coming politician, Sir Robert Chiltern, who tries to hide his secret past from his judgmental wife and the blackmail scheme he is forced to participate in to keep that secret quiet. Lady Chiltern has a very particular idea of what makes the "ideal husband" which leaves her with little tolerance for Sir Robert's all...
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Jack Worthing gets antsy living at his country estate. As an excuse, he spins tales of his rowdy brother Earnest living in London. When Jack rushes to the city to confront his "brother," he's free to become Earnest and live a different lifestyle. In London, his best friend, Algernon, begins to suspect Earnest is leading a double life. Earnest confesses that his real name is Jack and admits the ruse has become tricky as two women have become enchanted...
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The Irish are arguably the most literate people in the world. The number of famous Irish authors, from Joyce to Trevor and from Goldsmith to O'Brien, is a clear testimony to that. In this rich selection, we have concentrated on some of the early Irish writers who were particularly adept at the art of writing good short stories.
Stories range from Gerald Griffin's chilling tale, The Brown Man, to the delicate and closely observed Araby, taken from...
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En este sorprendente cuento Wilde se sirve la realidad de la corte española, de sus personajes y sus costumbres, para describirla de un modo exótico y servirse así de ella como lugar para el relato del infausto acontecimiento que ocurre el día del cumpleaños de la infanta, a quien le agasajan con las gracias de un enano que no tiene noción de su propia deformidad. Tanta gracia le hace a la infanta sus piruetas que le regala una de sus rosas...
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Do you want to listen to The Importance of Being Earnest? If so then keep reading...
A deliciously airily irresponsible comedy. Such is the "The Importance Of Being Earnest," the most personally characteristic expression of Wilde's art, and the last of the dramatic productions written under his own name. The dialogue has all the sparkle of bubbles from a gushing spring, and is brim-full of quaint conceits and diverting paradoxes
6) Oscar Wilde - Das Gespenst von Canterville / Die schönsten Märchen / Meistererzählungen / Lord Ar
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Auf diesem Hörbuch: Das Gespenst von Canterville - Der glückliche Prinz - Der selbstsüchtige Riese - Die Nachtigall und die Rose - Lord Arthur Saviles Verbrechen und andere. Gelesen von Markus Hoffmann, Katharina Thalbach, Thomas Vogt und Gerd Wameling.
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Als die amerikanische Familie Otis das englische Schloss Canterville kauft, wird sie gewarnt: Ein Gespenst treibe dort seit Jahrhunderten sein Unwesen. Doch die wenig abergläubischen Amerikaner haben keine Angst vor dem Geist, sie machen sich sogar lustig über wiederkehrende Blutflecken und Kettengerassel. Das Gespenst von Canterville ist verzweifelt, niemand nimmt es mehr ernst ... Oscar Wildes berühmte und hochkomische Erzählung als Hörbuch....
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Dos campesinos ven caer una estrella del cielo, y cuando van al lugar encuentran un niño del que se hace cargo uno de ellos. El niño es criado como un hijo más, pero destaca su belleza frente al resto, y se hace vanidoso y tirano, tanto que al saber que su madre no es más que una simple mendiga la despreciará. El castigo de este comportamiento será la fealdad y el desprecio de los demás, y su única redención consistirá en encontrar a su...
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Oscar Wilde wurde besonders durch seinen Witz und seine humorvollen, ironischen Stücke und Romane berühmt. Doch auch märchenhafte, nachdenkliche, heitere Geschichten gehörten zum Repertoire des wortgewandten englischen Literaten. Eine Auswahl seiner schönsten Erzählungen als Hörbuch: Die Sphinx ohne Geheimnis. Eine Radierung - Der Modellmillionär. Ein Zeichen der Bewunderung - Die Nachtigall und die Rose - Gedichte in Prosa - Der Lehrer der...
10) El amigo fiel
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Añadimos otro cuento del maravilloso Oscar Wilde a nuestra colección. Esta vez se trata de El Amigo Fiel un cuento corto, no llega a la media hora, lleno de fina ironía y la elegante forma de decirla del autor de origen irlandes. Y en línea con el estilo del autor, una interpretación de Esperanza de la Encarnación que no podeis dejar de disfrutar.
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"Dorian Gray ist reich, äußerst intelligent und makellos schön. Mit kaum 20 ist er der aufstrebende Liebling der Londoner High Society. Dort gerät er in die Fänge des zynischen Verführers Lord Henry, der ihm die Vergänglichkeit des Lebens in Erinnerung ruft: während Dorians gemaltes Bildnis in vollem Glanz der Ewigkeit trotze, würden Geist und Körper unweigerlich erschlaffen. Von Lebenshunger zermürbt, durchbricht Dorian daraufhin alle...
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Britain's most popular nineteenth century playwright Oscar Wilde was born in Ireland in 1854. He dabbled in several different forms of writing, as is exemplified in his best known work, the novel entitled "The Picture of Dorian Gray." He also wrote in the form of short fiction stories, like "The Canterville Ghost." In this tale, a family of proud Americans come into possession of a historic English mansion. However, the mansion is haunted by murderous...
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The Canterville Ghost - Oscar Wilde - "The Canterville Ghost" is a humorous (Horror) short story by Oscar Wilde♥. The story is about an American family who moved to a castle haunted by the ghost of a dead English nobleman, who killed his wife and was then walled in and starved to death by his wife's brothers. It has been adapted for the stage and screen several times.
★Summary of the Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde★
"The Canterville Ghost"...
14) Salomé
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Salomé” - is a work by the Irish philosopher, aesthete, writer and poet O. Wilde (1854 - 1900). One act play was written by the author in French in 1891. It was translated into English and published in London in 1894. The basis of the tragedy - is the story of Salome, the character of the New Testament. Salome - is the stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas, she is the one, who tempted Herod by dancing the Dance of the Seven Veils. To her stepfather's...
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Oscar Wilde was one of the most distinguished men of British letters in the nineteenth century. An accomplished and versatile writer of fiction, drama, poetry, essays, and criticism, he was known for his bitting wit and fearless challenges to the aesthetic and literary conventions of his day. The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Works collects Wildes complete fiction and plays, including The Picture of Dorian Gray, a novel condemned in its day as...
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This comprehensive collection showcases Oscar Wilde's brilliant storytelling skills and his amazing stylistic versatility, ranging from fairy tales and ghost stories to detective yarns and comedies of manners. It includes the complete texts of "The Happy Prince and Other Tales," "A House of Pomegranates," "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories," "Poems in Prose," and the critical essay "The Portrait of Mr. W. H." Originally published in the...
18) Cuentos
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El artista es el creador de cosas bellas, dice Oscar Wilde, en aquella suerte de declaración de principios que acompaña las primeras páginas de su famosa novela El retrato de Dorian Gray. Quizás no hay mejor muestra de la belleza que él mismo pretendió a lo largo de su vida y obra, que en los cuentos seleccionados por Editorial Universitaria para esta edición. Magia, encanto, amor y dolor, gracia y vuelo poético, en fin, todos los elementos...
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The Gold Fund of the World Literature” - is the collection of the e-books, which includes the best examples of the world fiction and presents to the maximum irrefragable list of the most widely read books in the world. Each of the works, published under the cover of this series, enters one or several lists of the best books in different versions, which are not opposed one to another, but are harmonically united, to give the reader the biggest choice....
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