Oscar Wilde

A menudo, la gente reprocha a los escritores y artistas que s lo sean hombres de acci n de un modo imperfecto e incompleto. Y sin embargo, es muy normal que as sea. Esa concentraci n del pensamiento, ese ardor vehemente que caracterizan el temperamento del artista, excluyen a la fuerza las otras cualidades. Para aquellos a quienes viven preocupados por la belleza de la forma no existe ya nada m s en el mundo que tenga verdadera importancia.

Blood, gore, murder, and sin? Victorian literature’s darkest horrors await you. The penny dreadfuls were cheap nineteenth-century English stories that featured gothic, lurid, disturbing, and tantalizing content. These horror serials cost a penny per issue, hence their name: penny dreadfuls. The penny dreadfuls often paid homage to?and even inspired?many of the more famous narratives of the horror genre. This book unites three of the most notorious literary giants of the nineteenth century, all born of the penny dreadful tradition: Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Picture of Dorian Gray, all in one authentic collection of the best Victorian gothic horror ever written. Originally published at a time when dramatic scientific discoveries sparked a cultural fixation on the paranormal, these stories remain timeless in their uncanny ability to prey upon our primal fear of that which is strange, violent, and unknown. This book contains three haunting tales and a bonus story: ? Dracula by Bram Stoker ? Dracula’s Guest by Bram Stoker (Dracula’s original first chapter, not published until after Stoker’s death) ? Frankenstein by Mary Shelley ? The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Curl up with The Penny Dreadfuls on a dark, moonless night and rediscover these chilling classics. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction?novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose, and the sapphire shall be as blue as the great sea.’ In ‘The Happy Prince’ a statue – jewelled and opulent – keeps careful watch over the city and its inhabitants. Enlisting the help of a swallow, his selfless acts bring comfort to those most in need. ‘The Nightingale and the Rose’ is a tragic tale of personal sacrifice in the name of love, while in ‘The Selfish Giant’ the end of an eternal winter finally brings springtime and happiness. In this collection of enchanting tales from a master storyteller, Oscar Wilde has entranced readers both young and old since publication in the late nineteenth century.

La historia de Wilde se narra a trav s del amigo de un hombre llamado Erskine, quien se encuentra consternado por la teor a Hughes. Erskine hab a escuchado de dicha teor a a trav s de Cyril Graham, quien hab a intentado persuadir a Erskine sobre ella, pero Erskine se encontraba frustrado por la falta de evidencia hist rica sobre la existencia de Willie Hughes. Graham intent encontrar dicha evidencia, pero fracas . En vez de ello, falsific un retrato de Hughes en el que ste es representado con su mano en un libro en el que se observa la dedicatoria de los sonetos. Erskine es convencido a trav s de esta evidencia, pero despu s descubre que el retrato resulta ser falso; un descubrimiento que lo lleva a dudar nuevamente sobre la existencia de Willie Hughes. Graham todav a cree en la teor a y, para probarlo, se dispara a s mismo. Erskine recuenta estos eventos al narrador, quien se impresiona ante la teor a de Willie Hughes y comienza con su propia investigaci n hasta convencerse, sin duda alguna, de que Willie Hughes fue no solo una persona real, sino que tambi n el sujeto de los sonetos. l presenta esta evidencia a Erskine pero despu s se despoja de ella, dejando de creer en su realidad. Sin embargo, Erskine renueva su creencia en dicha teor a y se propone a encontrar el rastro de Willie Hughes; empero, al igual que Graham, no encuentra evidencia til. El narrador mantiene que no exist a algo que encontrar, siendo que Hughes nunca existi . Erskine le env a una carta en la que le menciona que la verdad yace frente a l y, como prueba de su fe en ella, comete suicidio. Posteriormente, su amigo se dirigir a a su hotel en Cannes para encontrar a Erskine muerto. l asume que Erskine cometi suicidio, como Graham, pero el doctor le menciona que la causa real de la muerte hab a sido una enfermedad de la que Erskine ten a conocimiento desde hace algunos meses; l hab a ido a Par s espec ficamente para morir. Erskine le deja a su amigo el retrato del Sr. W. H., el cual coloca en su casa. Mucha gente hace comentarios sobre el retrato, pero el narrador jam s menciona su historia y algunas veces se pregunta a s mismo si, despu s de todo, ste es verdadero.

A Woman of No Importance is a play by Irish playwright Oscar Wilde. The play premi red on 19 April 1893 at London's Haymarket Theatre. Like Wilde's other society plays, it satirizes English upper class society. It has been performed on stages in Europe and North America since his death in 1900.

Salome is Oscar Wilde's most experimental-and controversial-play. In its own time, the play, written in French, was described by a reviewer as "an arrangement in blood and ferocity, morbid, bizarre, repulsive, and offensive in its adaptation of scriptural phraseology of situations the reverse of sacred." None, however, could deny the importance of Wilde's creation. Contemporary audiences and reviewers variously regarded Salome as the symbol of a thrilling modernity, a challenge to patriarchy, a confession of desire, a sign of moral decay, a new form of art, and a revolt against the restraints of Victorian society. Less well known than Wilde's beloved comedies, Salome is as enduringly modern and relevant. This edition uses the English translation by Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, and overseen by Wilde himself. Appendices detail the play's sources and provide extensive materials on its contemporary reception and dramatic productions.