Oscar Wilde

"The Importance of Being Earnest" is, as its subtitle explains, "A Trivial Comedy for Serious People." The play was written by Oscar Wilde and first performed on February 14, 1895, at the St James's Theatre, London. In this farcical comedy, the protagonists maintain fictitious personae to escape their burdensome social obligations.

En välbevarad hemlighet, skandalös i sin natur, hotar att köra en kil mellan Mrs Arbuthnot och hennes son Gerald. Det är på en tillställning hos Lady Hunstanton som allting plötsligt ställs på sin spets, när Gerald avslöjar att han erbjudits tjänsten som självaste Lord Illingworths sekreterare. Till Geralds stora förtret motsätter sig modern arrangemanget och det å det grövsta. Ändå vägrar hon att tala om varför. Vad är det egentligen som Mrs Arbuthnot döljer? "En kvinna utan betydenhet" är ett stycke viktoriansk samhällssatir i fyra akter, skrivet av den briljante dramatikern Oscar Wilde. Pjäsen sattes upp första gången år 1893 på Haymarket Theatre i London. -

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An authoritative edition of Oscar Wilde’s critical writings shows how the renowned dramatist and novelist also transformed the art of commentary. Though he is primarily acclaimed today for his drama and fiction, Oscar Wilde was also one of the greatest critics of his generation. Annotated and introduced by Wilde scholar Nicholas Frankel, this unique collection reveals Wilde as a writer who transformed criticism, giving the genre new purpose, injecting it with style and wit, and reorienting it toward the kinds of social concerns that still occupy our most engaging cultural commentators.“Criticism is itself an art,” Wilde wrote, and The Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde demonstrates this philosophy in action. Readers will encounter some of Wilde’s most quotable writings, such as “The Decay of Lying,” which famously avers that “Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates life.” But Frankel also includes lesser-known works like “The American Invasion,” a witty celebration of modern femininity, and “Aristotle at Afternoon Tea,” in which Wilde deftly (and anonymously) carves up his former tutor’s own criticism. The essays, reviews, dialogues, and epigrams collected here cover an astonishing range of themes: literature, of course, but also fashion, politics, masculinity, cuisine, courtship, marriage—the breadth of Victorian England. If today’s critics address such topics as a matter of course, it is because Wilde showed that they could. It is hard to imagine a twenty-first-century criticism without him.

Das St ck war ein Skandal, besonders in England. Die Darstellung der sexuellen W nsche Salom s galten als untragbar, auch die Bearbeitung des biblischen Stoffes schien Wildes Zeitgenossen fragw rdig. Heute gilt das St ck als als eines der wichtigsten Dramen der anglo-franz sischen D cadence - geschrieben im Original brigens auf Franz sisch, nicht etwa in englischer Sprache. Wilde schrieb dazu einem Freund, er sei "im Herzen Franzose, der Geburt nach aber Ire und von den Engl ndern dazu verurteilt, die Sprache Shakespeares zu sprechen." Gr ls-Klassiker (Edition Kleine Klassiker)

Der amerikanische Botschafter Hiram Otis zieht mit seiner Familie in das Schloss Canterville ein, obwohl dieses ein Gespenst beherbergt. Das Gespenst ist auch flei ig - seit dreihundert Jahren bringt es den Hausbewohnern Nervenzusammenbr che und Todesf lle. Wildes in der Novelle verarbeitete Gesellschaftskritik ist ambivalent. Einerseits stellt der die amerikanische, sch ne "Neue Welt" mit satirischer Distanz dar. Andererseits persifliert er aber auch die Engl nder der "Alten Welt". Gr ls-Klassiker (Edition Kleine Klassiker)

V knige sobrany vse rasskazy i skazki Oskara Uajlda, sredi kotorykh znamenitye "Kentervilskoe prividenie", "Schastlivyj prints", "Malchik-zvezda" i "Solovej i roza". Rasskazy Uajlda sochetajut v sebe romantiku i satiru na obschestvo, oni ironichny i nemnogo pechalny, polny izjaschestva i ostroumija. A ego skazki, napisannye dlja vzroslykh, "kotorye ne utratili dara radovatsja i izumljatsja", - eto trogatelnye istorii o ljubvi, dobrote i samopozhertvovanii. Prostym i lirichnym jazykom pisatel govorit o vazhnykh veschakh, zastavljaja chitatelja, vsled za svoimi gerojami, otkryt svoe serdtse i sdelat mir khot chutochku luchshe.

V dannoj knige sobrany znamenitye skazki Oskara Uajlda: "Den rozhdenija Infanty", "Velikan-egoist", "Zamechatelnaja raketa" i drugie. Pronzitelnye, polnye ironii i simvolizma, oni ne ostavjat ravnodushnymi ni detej, ni vzroslykh. Tekst soprovozhdaetsja kommentarijami, uprazhnenijami i slovarem. Skazki adaptirovany dlja nachinajuschikh izuchenie anglijskogo jazyka (uroven A1).

Odin iz samykh izvestnykh romanov mirovoj literatury, publikatsija kotorogo v 1891 godu stala prichinoj skandala v anglijskom obschestve. Kritika osudila ego kak amoralnoe proizvedenie, odnako obychnymi chitateljami roman byl prinjat vostorzhenno. V nem postavleny vechnye voprosy chelovechestva - o smysle zhizni, ob otvetstvennosti za sodejannoe, o velichii krasoty, o smysle ljubvi i gubjaschej vlasti grekha. Eto bessmertnoe proizvedenie Oskara Uajlda ekranizirovalos bolee 25 raz.

V knige vas zhdet vstrecha s gerojami volshebnykh skazok, kotorye rasskazali bratja Grimm, Khans Kristian Andersen, Oskar Uajld i Aleksandr Nikolaevich Afanasev. Baba Jaga, chert s tremja zolotymi voloskami, dukh iz skljanki, zlaja koldunja iz prjanichnogo domika, strashnoe Chudovische, kovarnaja machekha i velikan-egoist ozhivut na stranitsakh knigi blagodarja chudesnym illjustratsijam Skotta Pljumba. Dlja mladshego shkolnogo vozrasta

The Soul of Man By Oscar Wilde"The Soul of Man under Socialism" is an 1891 essay by Oscar Wilde in which he expounds a libertarian socialist worldview and a critique of charity. The writing of "The Soul of Man" followed Wilde's conversion to anarchist philosophy, following his reading of the works of Peter Kropotkin. In "The Soul of Man" Wilde argues that, under capitalism, "the majority of people spoil their lives by an unhealthy and exaggerated altruism-are forced, indeed, so to spoil them" instead of realising their true talents, they waste their time solving the social problems caused by capitalism, without taking their common cause away. Thus, caring people "seriously and very sentimentally set themselves to the task of remedying the evils that they see in poverty but their remedies do not cure the disease: they merely prolong it" because, as Wilde puts it, "the proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible." Wilde did not see kindness or altruism per se as a problem what worried him was its misapplication in a way which leaves unaddressed the roots of the problem: "the altruistic virtues have really prevented the carrying out of this aim. Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realised by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good" while preserving the system. Wilde's deepest concern was with man's soul when he analysed poverty and its causes and effects in "The Soul of Man under Socialism" it was not simply the material well-being of the poor that distressed him, but how society does not allow them to reach a form of self-understanding and enlightenment. He adopted Jesus of Nazareth as a symbol of the supreme individualist. Wilde advocated socialism, which, he argued, "will be of value simply because it will lead to individualism" and "substituting cooperation for competition will restore society to its proper condition ... and ensure material well being for each member of the community." Wilde examined the political conditions necessary for full self-development and devotion to art, arguing, "Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value.