Böcker av Oscar Wilde

Hoch über der Stadt thront der Glückliche Prinz auf seinem Sockel. Eine kleine Schwalbe findet ihren Weg zu ihm, als sich ihre Abreise in den Süden nach Ägypten verspätete, weil sie sich in eine Schilfpflanze verliebt hatte. Sie hilft dem Glücklichen Prinzen bei seinen Wünschen und erzählt ihm Geschichten von fernen Ländern.Die romantische Geschichte vom Glücklichen Prinzen ist ein Klassiker von Oscar Wilde (*16.10.1854 in Dublin; + 30.11.1900 in Paris). Er war ein irischer Schriftsteller und Kritiker, berühmt für seine wundervollen Märchen und seinen feinen Sinn für Humor.Das Märchen wurde von Cornelia Kandler illustriert und übersetzt, es liegt in diesem Buch zweisprachig im englischen Original und deutsch vor.BITTE BEACHTEN: Die Übersetzung sollte nah am Original bleiben und hat daher keinen eigenen literarischen Wert.Größe A4 hoch, durchgängig farbig illustriert.www.bitundgraphit.deOscar Wilde, *16.10.1854 in Dublin; + 30.11.1900 in Paris. Irish writer and critic in the Victorian Great Britain. Well known for his wonderful fairy tales and for his fine sense of humour. - Cornelia Kandler is a German illustrator

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Humour so british garanti ! Un ministre américain et sa famille achètent à Lord Canterville son château et tout ce qu'il contient... fantôme compris. Seulement voilà la famille Otis n'en a absolument pas peur. Alors, lorsqu'un spectre, habitué à terroriser tout le monde, se trouve confronté à deux jumeaux qui ne pensent qu'à lui jouer de mauvais tours, le voilà plus que déconcerté, au point d'épuiser tout son arsenal ! Jusqu'à ce que la fille des Otis, Virginia, devienne son amie...En édition bilingue anglais/français, avec lecture audio intégrée: Non seulement vous pouvez lire Le Fantôme de Canterville en français et en anglais, mais vous pouvez aussi écouter la lecture de cet ouvrage soit dans sa version originale anglophone, soit dans sa traduction française, grâce à votre téléphone, tablette ou webcam. L'idéal pour améliorer votre maîtrise de la langue d'Oscar Wilde, ou de Molière !

Dorian Gray is the subject of a full-length portrait in oil by Basil Hallward, an artist who is impressed and infatuated by Dorian's beauty; he believes that Dorian's beauty is responsible for the new mode in his art as a painter. Through Basil, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, and he soon is enthralled by the aristocrat's hedonistic worldview: that beauty and sensual fulfilment are the only things worth pursuing in life. Understanding that his beauty will fade, Dorian expresses the desire to sell his soul, to ensure that the picture, rather than he, will age and fade. The wish is granted, and Dorian pursues a libertine life of varied and amoral experiences; all the while his portrait ages and records every soul-corrupting sin.

A farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personæ to escape burdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play's major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage, and the resulting satire of Victorian ways.

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to

Oscar Wilde, with his legendary works of literature is a delight to read at all times. This iconic drama is a series of events and characters all caught up and wound in their own situations. It is only in the series of these complex situations that layers of human behaviours are revealed making it interesting and at the same time making the character vulnerable to the situations they have got themselves into. The unfurling of events leads to many important discoveries and realizations and the