Oscar Wilde

The ghost of Sir Simon has been haunting Canterville Chase since his disappearance three hundred years ago. He terrifies all who come there determined to not let anyone live in peace. However, this ghost has not dealt with the tough, American family who have taken residence. Will the ghost be able to terrify the American family full of eccentric individuals? Or will the world be finally rid of this specter known by everyone in England as the Canterville Ghost? Who will win this battle of horror: the ghost, the American family or someone else? Read The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde expertly abridged for children of ages 7-12 by authors Fiza Pathan and Michaelangelo Zane. The book contains twenty-two B/W illustrations conceived by Fiza Pathan and executed by the illustrator Farzana Cooper. This is the sixth book in our Rare Classics Series.

After all, who has the right to cast a stone against one who has suffered? Cannot repentance wipe out an act of folly? Why should there be one law for me and another for women? Wilde's 'trivial play for serious people', a sparkling comedy of manners, is the epitome of wit and style. This brilliantly constructed satire with its celebrated characters and much-quoted dialogue turns accepted ideas inside out and is generally regarded as Wilde's masterpiece. This Methuen Drama Student Edition of the play includes commentary and notes by Lucie Sutherland, Assistant Professor in Drama at the University of Nottingham, UK, which investigate the play through a contemporary lens, bringing in the contributions from queer scholarship and discussions of recent productions of the play.

The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile in Berneval-le-Grand, after his release from Reading Gaol on 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading after being convicted of gross indecency with other men in 1895 and sentenced to two years' hard labour in prison. During his imprisonment, on Tuesday, 7 July 1896, a hanging took place. Charles Thomas Wooldridge had been a trooper in the Royal Horse Guards. He was convicted of cutting the throat of his wife, Laura Ellen, earlier that year at Clewer, near Windsor. He was aged 30 when executed

""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.""

Zavorazhivajuschaja i intrigujuschaja istorija cheloveka, pozhelavshego naveki sokhranit molodost i zastavit sobstvennyj portret staret vmesto sebja. Dorian Grej, aristokrat udivitelnoj krasoty, prodal dushu v obmen na ispolnenie zhelanija. No on ne znal, chto tsena okazhetsja slishkom vysoka. On perestanet razlichat dobro i zlo i budet razbivat serdtsa, tolkat ljudej na samoubijstvo, predavat. Iskusstvo okazhetsja gubitelnee, chem dumal Dorian. Edinstvennyj roman Oskara Uajlda pri zhizni avtora vyzyval jarostnye spory, a nyne priznan neprevzojdennym shedevrom mirovoj literatury. Perevodchik: Abkina Marija Efimovna

V knige predlagaetsja povest Oskara Uajlda "Kentervilskoe prividenie", adaptirovannaja (bez uproschenija teksta originala) po metodu Ili Franka. Unikalnost metoda zakljuchaetsja v tom, chto zapominanie slov i vyrazhenij proiskhodit za schet ikh povtorjaemosti, bez zauchivanija i neobkhodimosti ispolzovat slovar. Krome togo, chitatel privykaet k logike anglijskogo jazyka, nachinaet ego "chuvstvovat". Posobie sposobstvuet effektivnomu osvoeniju jazyka, mozhet sluzhit dopolneniem k uchebnoj programme. Prednaznacheno dlja studentov, dlja izuchajuschikh anglijskij jazyk samostojatelno, a takzhe dlja vsekh interesujuschikhsja anglijskoj kulturoj. Khudozhnik: Goldsmith Wallace

Podarochnoe illjustrirovannoe izdanie otpechatano na importnoj pigmentirovannoj knizhno-dizajnerskoj bumage Laks Krim (Lux Cream) s zakladkoj ljasse odnogo tsveta s kaptalom. Tekst naibolee izvestnogo romana Oskara Uajlda "Portreta Doriana Greja" daetsja v etom izdanii polnostju, bez kupjur, v redkom perevode brata izvestnogo filosofa poliglota Sergeja Aleksandrovicha Berdjaeva, kotoromu udalos udivitelno tochno peredat dekadentskuju atmosferu etogo misticheskogo proizvedenija, stavshego svoeobraznym manifestom estetizma. On zhe javljaetsja i perevodchikom pisem Uajlda v zaschitu "Doriana Greja". V dannom izdanii roman proilljustrirovan izyskannymi risunkami frantsuzskogo khudozhnika Zhana Emilja Laburera, kotorye khorosho peredajut dukh modernizma.

Oskar Uajld (1854-1900) - vsemirno izvestnyj pisatel, klassik anglijskoj literatury. Filosofskij roman "Portret Doriana Greja" (1891) - edinstvennoe krupnoe prozaicheskoe proizvedenie Uajlda. Roman posvjaschen bessmertnym temam morali i nravstvennosti, ljubvi i nenavisti, fizicheskoj i dukhovnoj krasoty, poetomu i v nashi dni on ne terjaet svoej aktualnosti. Neadaptirovannyj tekst na jazyke originala snabzhen kommentarijami i slovarem. Kniga prednaznachena dlja shirokogo kruga chitatelej, vladejuschikh anglijskim jazykom, dlja starsheklassnikov, studentov vuzov, slushatelej kursov inostrannykh jazykov i tekh, kto izuchaet anglijskij jazyk samostojatelno. Kommentarii i slovar K. Ju. Mikhno. Redaktor: Mikhno K. Ju.

Inebriado por sua beleza, Dorian Gray busca ajuventu de eterna e abre m o da sua alma para que apenas uma pintura a leo, de autoria do artista Basil Hallward, envelhe a e ele possa desfrutar dos prazeres da vida. O retrato de Dorian Gray o nico romance escrito por Oscar Wilde. Publicado originalmente em 1890, foi considerado imoral para a poca e teve palavras censuradas, o que resultou em uma nova edi o ampliada pelo autor indignado. Com elementos g ticos, f usticos e do hedonismo, Wilde critica a sociedade e cultura vitoriana, apresentando um protagonista que abandona suas virtude sem busca do prazer individual.

Samye zakhvatyvajuschie proizvedenija, vkhodjaschie v "zolotoj fond" mirovoj literatury uzhasov. Ljubiteli poschekotat sebe nervy ne dolzhny prokhodit mimo etoj serii! Na stranitsakh knig ozhivut samye strashnye nochnye koshmary, ot drevnikh bogov Lavkrafta do vedm Gogolja. Chitatel prikosnjotsja k drevnim okkultnym tajnam, posetit uzhasnye i tainstvennye miry, sozdannye fantaziej velikikh pisatelej. Ne chitajte eti knigi na noch! Khudozhnik: Ivanov Ivan

Novaja kniga v serii dvujazychnykh knig dlja detej - v prekrasnom perevode i s chudesnymi illjustratsijami. Istorija, rasskazannaja Oskarom Uajldom, ob odnom iz vazhnejshikh kachestv cheloveka - miloserdii. Kazhdyj roditel znaet, chto ob etom nado govorit s detmi s samogo rannego vozrasta. No kak eto sdelat? A esli cherez skazku? Prekrasnaja i neobychajno jarkaja zvezda proneslas nad dolinoj, i tam, kuda ona upala, lesoruby nashli v snegu chudesnoe ditja - Malchika-zvezdu... Na shee rebenka sverkalo ozherele iz chistogo naturalnogo jantarja, on byl ukutan sverkajuschim plaschom, rasshitym zvezdami. Nikto ne reshalsja vzjat ego domoj: i tak semi u kazhdogo byli bolshimi. I tolko odin lesorub szhalilsja i zabral malysha. Tak malchik-zvezda stal rasti v seme prostykh ljudej. Rebenok byl prekrasen, no ego serdtse ostavalos takim zhe, kak sneg, kholodnym... Mudraja skazka Oskara Uajlda prosto i iskrenno povestvuet o tom, kak strashna gordynja, i na kakie podvigi samopozhertvovanija sposobna iskrennjaja ljubov. Projdja cherez rjad slozhnejshikh ispytanij, perezhiv lishenija, Malchik-zvezda tem samym ochistilsja i poluchil vozmozhnost nachat vse zanovo. I poetomu skazka zakanchivaetsja svetlo i zhizneradostno: malchik vyros i stal samym spravedlivym i samym dobrym korolem vo vsem mire. No ved imenno tak i dolzhny zakanchivatsja dobrye i pouchitelnye volshebnye istorii. Dlja detej srednego shkolnogo vozrasta.

"Portret Doriana Greja" - samoe znamenitoe proizvedenie Oskara Uajlda, edinstvennyj ego roman, vyzvavshij v svoe vremja shkval negativnykh otsenok i tem ne menee imevshij neverojatnyj uspekh. Glavnyj geroj romana, krasavets Dorian, - figura dvojstvennaja, neodnoznachnaja. Tonkij estet i romantik stanovitsja bezzhalostnym prestupnikom. Popytka sokhranit svoju neobychajnuju krasotu i molodost oborachivaetsja provalom. Vmesto geroja stareet ego portret - no eto ne mozhet prodolzhatsja vechno, i smert Doriana rasstavljaet vse po svoim mestam. Roman Oskara Uajlda prodolzhaet byt ochen aktualnym i segodnja - razve pogonja za vechnoj molodostju poroj ne oborachivaetsja poterej svoego istinnogo litsa? Perevodchik: Tselovalnikova Darja

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.

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