Oscar Wilde

The master of wit and irony Published here alongside their evocative original illustrations, these fairy tales, as Oscar Wilde himself explained, were written "partly for children, and partly for those who have kept the childlike faculties of wonder and joy."

The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde is a collection of short stories written by the famous Irish author, Oscar Wilde. The book includes all of Wilde's fairy tales, including The Happy Prince, The Selfish Giant, and The Nightingale and the Rose, among others. These stories are known for their imaginative and whimsical nature, as well as their underlying moral messages. The tales explore themes such as love, sacrifice, greed, and the consequences of selfishness. The book is a perfect read for both children and adults, as it contains a mix of light-hearted and thought-provoking stories. Wilde's elegant prose and vivid descriptions bring the characters and settings to life, making the book a delightful and enchanting read. The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde is a timeless classic that has enchanted readers for generations and continues to do so to this day. This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Dominoes is a full-colour, interactive readers series that offers students a fun reading experience while building their language skills. With integrated activities, an interactive MultiROM, and exciting, fully dramatized audio for every story, the new edition of the series makes reading motivating for students while making it easy for you to develop their reading and language skills.

El fantasma de Canterville (The Canterville Ghost) es un relato escrito por Oscar Wilde. El mensaje que Wilde intenta expresar por medio del libro es lo preocupantes que se tornan las estructuras del materialismo, representados aqu por la familia Otis, la cual nunca se sorprende por el comportamiento del fantasma. Al contrario, intentan "combatirlo" utilizando distintos productos modernos (detergentes, aceite para cadenas, etc.) y su vida nunca es alterada, a pesar de los reiterados esfuerzos que lleva a cabo el fantasma. Este encarna, en cierta forma, la figura del arte, porque necesita superarse constantemente y canalizarse de diferentes formas. Posteriormente, al ver in tiles sus esfuerzos, busca la m xima elevaci n, la que supera la Vida y la Muerte: el Amor.

A universal favorite, The Importance of Being Earnest displays Oscar Wilde’s wit and theatrical genius at their brilliant best. Subtitled “A Trivial Comedy for Serious People,” this hilarious attack on Victorian manners and morals turns a pompous world on its head, lets duplicity lead to happiness, and makes riposte the highest form of art. Written, according to Wilde, “by a butterfly for butterflies,” it is a dazzling masterpiece of comic entertainment. Although it was originally written in four acts, The Importance of Being Earnest is usually performed in a three-act version. This authoritative edition features an appendix that restores valuable lines that appeared in the original. Also included in this special collection are Wilde’s first comedy success, Lady Windermere’s Fan, and his richly sensual melodrama, Salomé, which he called “that terrible coloured little tragedy I once in some strange mood wrote”—and which shocked and enraged the censors of his time. Includes an Introduction by Sylvan Barnetand an Afterword by Elise Bruhl and Michael Gamer

The Importance of Being EarnestBy Oscar Wilde

Unique among his works, Oscar Wilde’s play Salomé (1893) was written originally in French. Joseph Donohue’s new translation of the horrific New Testament story has recast Wilde’s shockingly radical drama in the natural idiomatic language of our own day. Presenting a colloquial and spare American English version of Wilde’s consciously stylised French, Donohue’s approach gives full value to the Irish author’s dark ruminations on evil and perversity in a world on the brink of a new, unsettling Christian dispensation. The play was first translated into English in 1894 by Wilde’s young friend Lord Alfred Douglas, but Wilde was far from pleased with the outcome. And yet Douglas’s stilted, inaccurate version has somehow retained a long-standing place on the stage and in the study. Donohue’s lucid vernacular transformation of Douglas’s safe, thee-and-thou faux-biblical language has the quality of a startling modern-dress remounting of an overly familiar classic play. This new Salomé is calculated to bring both readers and playgoers into close, disturbing confrontation with one of the most erotic and bloodiest sequences of testamentary lore. Brilliantly complementing Donohue’s unprecedented approach is a set of engravings by a master illustrator of our time. Barry Moser is an artist who speaks the blunt yet fluent language of present-day communication through the penetrating gestural vocabulary of the graphic arts. The resulting combination of words and images directly engages with Wilde’s characters and their story, setting a bold new standard for the melding of literary and pictorial excellence. At the same time, it leads readers and audiences alike to rediscover perennially significant themes—of love, death, power, and individuality.