Oscar Wilde

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`Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!' A powerful poem of universal guilt and a protest against capital punishment, The Ballad of Reading Gaol is Wilde's best-known poem, yet it is quite unlike the rest of his poetry. At Oxford Wilde discarded the passion and politics of his mother's Irish nationalistic anti-famine poetry and opted to follow an English Romantic tradition, paying tribute to Keats, Swinburne, and the Pre-Raphaelites. Admiration of French masters gradually led to his writing Impressionist, even decadent poems and his collection Poems (1881) brought accusations of obscenity and plagiarism as well as scathing reviews. Unabashed, Wilde revised and reprinted his final `Author's Edition' in 1892, by which time he was the successful author of fiction, criticism, and Lady Windermere's Fan. This volume follows as closely as possible the chronological order of composition, highlighting autobiographical elements including the young Wilde's conflicting attitudes to Greece and Rome, pagan and Christian, and his fluctuating attraction to Roman Catholicism. The Appendix shows Wilde's original ordering, constructed with great care around a `musical' arrangement of themes. The poems reveal unexpected aspects of a literary chameleon usually identified with sparkling wit and social comedy. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Playwright, poet, essayist, flamboyant man-about-town, Oscar Wilde pack an astonishing amount of work, genius, and controversy into two short decades, producing masterworks in every literary genre. This selection includes almost all of his short stories, including "The Canterville Ghost," "The Fisherman and his Soul," and "The Remarkable Rocket." Alongside THE MODEL MILLIONAIRE, Harper Perennial will publish the short fiction of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Herman Melville, Willa Cather, Leo Tolstoy, and Stephen Crane to be packaged in a beautifully designed, boldly colorful boxset in the aim to attract contemporary fans of short fiction to these revered masters of the form. Also, in each of these selections will appear a story from one of the new collections being published in the "Summer of the Short Story." A story from Simon Van Booy's forthcoming collection, LOVE BEGINS IN WINTER, will be printed at the back of this volume.

Als der junge Oscar Wilde mit seinem ersten, von der Kritik nicht sonderlich wohlwollend aufgenommenen Gedichtbändchen in der Tasche zum ersten Mal nach Amerika einreiste, antwortete er dem Zollbeamten auf seine Frage, ob er etwas zu verzollen habe: ? Nur mein Genie, weiter nichts.? Oscar Wilde war ein fleischgewordenes Bonmot, er schockierte und entzückte seine Zeitgenossen durch Paradoxien, die oft nichts anderes waren als verfrühte Wahrheiten der Zukunft, und die für uns heute weitaus näher und ernster sind als für die Gesellschaft, die sie belachte. Wolfgang Kraus hat aus Oscar Wildes Werk die besten, verblüffendsten Aphorismen - und deren gibt es viele - herausgesiebt. Das Ergebnis ist ein Brevier für den Dandy, für den Wilde-Liebhaber, für jeden, der extravagant denkt.

Boken inneholder blant annet eventyrene Snehvit, Askeladden, Den stygge andungen, Rødhette, Tornerose og Tyrihans. Noen av eventyrene har originalillustrasjonene, mens noen har fått nye.