Böcker av Oscar Wilde

Den amerikanske ministern Hiram B. Otis och hans familj flyttar in i det engelska slottet Canterville, trots omgivningens försök att avskräcka dem. Det spökar nämligen där. Efter flera incidenter tvingas familjen erkänna att spöket Sir Simon de Canterville faktiskt existerar. Vanligt folk skulle givetvis ha blivit vettskrämda, men inte familjen Otis. Istället erbjuder de Simon olja för att smörja sina kedjor och utsätter honom för trick och bus. Simon är trött på livet som spöke, och ber dottern hjälpa honom att finna frid i Dödens Trädgård.Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) var en irländsk dramatiker, författare och poet. Han är kanske mest känd för boken "Dorian Grays porträtt". På grund av sin homosexuella läggning stötte Wilde ofta på hårt motstånd och blev till följd av detta även dömd till fängelse. Han blev endast 46 år gammal.

THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY IS OSCAR WILDES CLASSIC STORY OF A YOUNG MAN WHOSE BEAUTY PROMPTS A PAINTER TO PAINT A LIFE-LIKE PORTRAIT OF HIM. HOWEVER, ALL IS NOT WHAT IT SEEMS...DORIAN EXPRESSES THE DESIRE TO SELL HIS SOUL, TO ENSURE THAT THE PICTURE, RATHER THAN HE, WILL AGE ANDFADE. A MUST-READ FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS ALIKE! THE NOVEL IS A SOCIAL SATIRE AS WELL AS A KEY EXPLORER OF VICTORIAN NORMS. WE ARE MADE TO OBSERVE HUMAN EMOTIONS LIKE LOVE, JEALOUSY, HATE AND THE FORCES OF EVIL AND GOOD. OSCAR WILDE PROPAGATES HIS ART FOR ARTS SAKE THEORY, EVEN AS HE WEAVES A NARRATIVE AROUND A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG MAN (DORIAN GRAY) AND HIS FRIENDS (LORD HENRY AND BASIL).THE BOOK IS A CLASSIC IN THE TRUE SENSE OF THE WORD, AS IT APPEALS TO THE UNIVERSAL INSTINCTS OF MAN. डोरियन ग्रे...अंतर्बाह्य सुंदर असलेला विशीचा तरुण... बेसिल हॉलवर्ड या चित्रकाराने डोरियनचं चित्र रेखाटलंय...बेसिलचा मित्र लॉर्ड हेन्री आणि डोरियनची भेट होते... डोरियन हेन्रीच्या प्रभावाखाली येतो...तो नाटकात काम करणाऱ्या सिबिलनामक सुंदर युवतीच्या प्रेमात पडतो. तिच्याशी लग्नही ठरवतो...पण एका प्रयोगात सिबिल खूपच वाईट अभिनय करते आणि तो प्रचंड संतापतो...तिच्याशी भांडून थिएटरमधून बाहेर पडतो...त्याच रात्री सिबिल आत्महत्या करते...ती बातमी कळल्यावर डोरियन विव्हळ होतो...पण काहीच क्षण...या प्रसंगानंतर सुरू होते डोरियनची आत्मिक अधोगती...काही लोकांच्या विनाशा

The Soul of Man Under Socialism is a famous and classic poitical science essay by Oscare Wilde that contains this passage: "The chief advantage that would result from the establishment of Socialism is, undoubtedly, the fact that Socialism would relieve us from that sordid necessity of living for others which, in the present condition of things, presses so hardly upon almost everybody. In fact, scarcely anyone at all escapes."

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. -

Den stilige Dorian Gray besitter en skönhet som är få förunnad. Han tycks aldrig åldras och har en omåttlig förkärlek för det ytligt vackra. Men vad de flesta inte vet är att han har en mörk hemlighet; ett porträtt, undangömt, som visar hans verkliga jag. Där hans eviga ungdom inte alls är evig och där hans synder håller på att forma honom till oigenkännlighet. När det dåliga samvetet stötvis gör sig påmint får det Dorian att vackla. Kan han på något sätt rädda sin själ, innan den går hopplöst förlorad? Med allt det onda som han gjort, är det tveksamt om det finns någon återvändo... Oscar Wildes klassiska "Dorian Grays porträtt" är idag en utav världens mest kända romaner. När boken först gavs ut ansågs den skandalös och stötande, men populariteten har sedan dess skjutit spikrakt i höjden. Boken har även filmatiserats otaliga gånger. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) var en irländsk dramatiker, författare och poet. Han är kanske mest känd för boken "Dorian Grays porträtt". På grund av sin homosexuella läggning stötte Wilde ofta på hårt motstånd och blev till följd av detta även dömd till fängelse. Han blev endast 46 år gammal.

Lady Windermeres Fan - A Play About A Good Woman. 28th Edition is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1893.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae to escape burdensome social obligations.

A luxurious gift edition of Oscar Wilde's classic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, presented with Wibalin binding and gold foil embossing. In this cautionary tale, the handsome Dorian Gray wishes that his portrait should age rather than himself, and then launches on a life of excess and depravity, with shocking consequences. This timeless novel about the frailty of human beauty and sensual experience and the futility of vanity remains as powerful today as when it was first published in 1891. ABOUT THE SERIES: Arcturus Ornate Classics are beautifully bound editions of iconic literary works across history. These compact, foil-embossed hardbacks are printed using deluxe ivory paper and make the perfect gift.

This celebrated masterpiece is Oscar Wilde's only novel. A mesmerizing tale of horror and suspense, it has endured due to its artful prose and the philosophical questions it raises, as well as the scandal it caused upon its initial publication in 1890.Written in his distinctively dazzling manner and combining aspects of a Gothic horror novel and decadent French fiction, Wilde forges a devastating account of the effects of evil and depravity on a fashionable young man in late 19th century England who sells his soul in exchange for eternal youth and beauty.A concept that Wilde derived from the German legend of Faust, Gray is the subject of a portrait by painter Basil Hallward who deems his subject's beauty to be inconceivably great. Rather than having to age himself, an egotistical Dorian wishes for the painting to age instead of him so that he can retain his youthful good looks. Gray plunges into a life of vice and debauchery with its sole aim being pleasure. His body retains perfect youth and vigor while the portrait changes day by day into a ghastly chronicle of evil, documenting each of his sins with its appearance, which he must keep hidden from the world.This spellbinding novel tale that warns its readers of the dangers that come with narcissism, self-indulgence, and ignorance still ranks as one of Wilde's most important works. Of Gray's relationship to him, Wilde noted "e;Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be-in other ages, perhaps."e;

One of the greatest playwrights in the English language, Oscar Wilde was also a legendary wit and a poetic provocateur. He was put on trial and sentenced to two years of hard labor for "gross indecency" by the same English society whose hypocrisy he had put on stage to great effect. His refusal to renounce his homosexuality and love for Lord Alfred Douglas ("Bosie") made him first a martyr and later an icon for free love and a myth onto himself. This edition of surviving letters that Wilde wrote to his "own dear darling boy" is a testament to the enduring power and radical force of love. Included are the introductory essays by legendary bookseller A. S. W. Rosenbach and philanthropist William Clark, who first published these letters in 1924, and a little-known letter from Douglas to Wilde.