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Understand Oscar Wilde. "For the artist is not concerned primarily with any theory of life but with life itself, with the joy and loveliness that should come daily on eye and ear for a beautiful external world." A collection of essays, lectures, poetry, reviews, private correspondence and aphorisms by Oscar Wilde.
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"The Ballad of Reading Gaol and De Profundis" collects together some of Oscar Wilde's most important writings during and concerning his two-year-long incarceration for "gross indecency". In the words of Oscar Wilde, we see his recognition for the part that he plays in his own downfall. While he never directly admits to his crimes, numerous contemporary witnesses seem to validate the charges against him. Yet Wilde could have avoided his fate if he...
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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854—1900) was an Irish poet and playwright who became one of the most popular in London during the 1880s and 1890s. Well-known for his sharp wit and extravagant attire, Wilde was a proponent of aestheticism and wrote in a variety of forms including poetry, fiction, and drama. He was famously imprisoned for homosexual acts from 1895 to 1897 and died at the age of 46, just three years after his release. Although...
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El señor Otis, Ministro de los Estados Unidos de América, viaja a Inglaterra con su familia y se instala en una casa de campo encantada. Lord Canterville, el anterior propietario de la casa, le advierte que el fantasma de Sir Simon de Canterville la habita desde que mató a su esposa, hace más de tres siglos. El Ministro descarta la historia del fantasma como una patraña y hace caso omiso de las advertencias de Lord Canterville. Cuando los Otis...
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At the turn of the 1890s, Oscar Wilde refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). The opportunity to construct aesthetic details precisely, and combine them with larger social themes, drew Wilde to write drama. He wrote Salome (1891) in French in Paris but it was refused a licence. Unperturbed, Wilde...
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Poet and playwright Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) wrote sparkling comedies that were the toast of London's West End in the 1890s. The master of the witty epigram who could resist anything except temptation, Wilde was imprisoned by an unjust society and died in obscurity, but his enduring works continue to enchant readers and audiences. The Irish author's only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, appears in this splendid showcase of his philosophy and wit....
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Oscar Wilde was a legendary wit, a poetic provocateur, and one of England's greatest playwrights who became a martyr for free love, a scapegoat for repressive society, and a myth onto himself. Shimmering beneath the dazzling witticisms and delicious irony is Wilde's profound, serious, and unshakeable commitment to love. Love is the experience that can unmoor us from the habits, conventions, and expectations of our lives in both thrilling and unsettling...
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Epigrams, aphorisms, and other bon mots gathered from the celebrated wit's plays, essays, and conversation offer an entertaining selection of observations both comic and profound. Organized by category, the nearly 400 quotes range in subject from human nature, morals, and society to art, politics, history, and more.
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"I have put my genius into my life," declared Oscar Wilde, adding, "I have put only my talent into my works." This gift edition of the renowned poet and playwright's aphorisms draws upon both realms. Hundreds of sparkling jests and epigrams include quips from Wilde's personal letters and conversations as well as his fiction, essays, lectures, and plays. The most comprehensive collection of Wilde's witticisms, it will delight both longtime fans and...
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Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for gross indecency for consensual homosexual acts in "one of the first celebrity trials", imprisonment, and early death from meningitis...
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"A Picture is a Purely Decorative Thing" is a brand new collection of essays and excerpts on the subject of The Arts written by Oscar Wilde. Contents include: "The Artist", "The English Renaissance of Art", "An Exposure of Naturalism", "Sculpture at The Arts and Crafts", "House Decoration", "The Poetry of Archeology", "The Art of Archeology", "Art and the Handicraftsman", "Mr. Morris on Tapestry", "Lecture to Art Students", "The Relation of Dress...
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One of the greatest playwrights in the English language, Oscar Wilde was also a legendary wit and a poetic provocateur. He was put on trial and sentenced to two years of hard labor for "gross indecency" by the same English society whose hypocrisy he had put on stage to great effect. His refusal to renounce his homosexuality and love for Lord Alfred Douglas ("Bosie") made him first a martyr and later an icon for free love and a myth onto himself. This...
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Une édition de référence du Portrait de Dorian Gray d'Oscar Wilde, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
« J'établis une grande différence entre les gens. Je choisis mes amis pour leur bonne mine, mes simples camarades pour leur caractère, et mes ennemis pour leur intelligence ; un homme ne saurait trop attacher d'importance au choix de ses ennemis ; je n'en ai point un seul qui soit un sot ; ce sont tous hommes...
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Extrait : "C'était le soir du jour qui précédait la date fixée par son couronnement, et le jeune roi était assis seul dans sa belle chambre. Tous ses courtisans avaient pris congé de lui, en courbant leur tête jusqu'à terre, ainsi que le prescrivait la cérémonieuse étiquette du temps, et ils s'étaient retirés dans la Grande salle du Palais, pour recevoir quelques dernières leçons du Professeur de Cérémonial..."
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Extrait: "Un après-midi, j'étais assis à la terrasse du café de la Paix, contemplant la splendeur et les dessous de la vie parisienne. Tout en prenant mon vermouth, j'étudiais avec curiosité l'étrange panorama o l'orgueil et la pauvreté défilaient devant moi, quand je m'entendis appeler par mon nom."
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Extrait : "Le principal avantage qui résulterait de l'établissement du socialisme serait, à n'en pas douter, que nous serions délivrés par lui de cette sordide nécessité de vivre pour d'autres, qui dans l'état actuel des choses, pèse d'un poids si lourd sur tous presque sans exception. En fait, on ne voit pas qui peut s'y soustraire."
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