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Se presentan en este volumen: El Retrato de Dorian Gray, la única novela de Oscar Wilde, y cuatro de los cuentos más celebrados del mismo autor: El Príncipe Feliz, El Ruiseñor y la Rosa, El Crimen de Lord Arthur Saville, El Fantasma de Canterville. El lector podría preguntarse el por qué de esta selección. Ciertamente no ha sido hecha al azar, descansando en la idea de no errar al ofrecer estas cinco obras publicadas ya un sinnúmero de veces, leídas siempre con el mismo gusto e interés y derivando de ellas más o menos los mismos comentarios. Pero no; el propósito de la elección obedeció a que pensamos que con esos cinco exponentes de la producción literaria de Wilde, se puede lograr una síntesis del pensamiento de su autor; de sus diversas y a veces incongruentes posturas como hedonista, esteta y snob, de su supuesto cinismo, de su actitud moral tan traída y llevada, tan discutida en exceso, y quizá en forma innecesaria cuando nos atenemos exclusivamente a las dimensiones humanas y convencionales . Todo esto lo encontramos deslizado fragmentariamente en cada una de sus obras, o bien volcado en una sola, proclamando todas sus teorías, como es el caso de El Retrato de Dorian Gray. Casi nos atrevemos a decir, además que con esta selección se puede formar un juicio claro sobre el estilo del autor como dramaturgo, como poeta de finura sorprendente, y como artífice privilegiado de la palabra, que hacía de la polémica, articulada por su humor chispeante, un verdadero arte del arte por el arte.

La obra contiene: El abanico de Lady Windermere. Una mujer sin importancia. Un marido ideal. La importancia de llamarse Ernesto. El Príncipe Feliz y otros cuentos. El retrato de Míster W. H. El crimen de lord Arthur Savile y otras historias. Una casa de granadas. El critico como artista. La decadencia de la mentira. Ravena. Poemas en prosa. La balada de la carcel de Reading

« Une fois dans sa chambre, il se jeta sur un canapé et ses yeux s'emplirent de larmes. Il avait fait de son mieux pour commettre le meurtre, mais il avait échoué à deux reprises sans que ce fût sa faute. Il avait essayé de faire son devoir, mais le Destin lui-même semblait s'acharner à le trahir. »

Essential collection of Oscar Wilde's best plays: Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, The Importance of Being Earnest, Salome and an Ideal Husband. "Between 1892 and 1895, Oscar Wilde's drawing-room comedies Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest made his name as a playwright who fearlessly mocked the hypocrisy and snobbery of Victorian society and took gleeful delight in appearing to trivialize its most sacred institutions. With its premiere on Valentine's Day 1895, The Importance of Being Earnest - a hilarious comedy of mistaken identities and coruscating language - was a phenomenal success, but its run was cut short prematurely by Wilde's court case and subsequent incarceration, and the play was not published until 1899, after Wilde had been released from prison. Also including the powerful Salome, originally written in French and banned by the British censor, this collection displays Wilde at his provocative and witty best, and demonstrates why he was a playwright who delighted audiences and infuriated critics in equal measure

Ognuno vede il proprio peccato in Dorian Gray afferma Oscar Wilde. La sua opera piu nota e diventata il manifesto del decadentismo e dellestetismo, ma e soprattutto uno dei romanzi piu raffinati e impetuosi mai scritti. Gli atelier di pittori, il teatro, le cene della nobilta londinese, la ricerca del piacere portata alle estreme conseguenze: questi gli ingredienti di una storia intramontabile. Dorian Gray, ossessionato dalla paura di perdere la bellezza, lunica risorsa per cui valga la pena di vivere, ottiene grazie a un sortilegio che il tempo non segni il suo corpo ma soltanto il suo ritratto. Cosi puo abbandonarsi agli eccessi mantenendo intatta la giovinezza e la perfezione del suo viso. Ma che ne e dellanima?

In The Critic as Artistarguably the most complete exploration of his aesthetic thinking, and certainly the most entertainingOscar Wilde harnesses his famous wit to demolish the supposed boundary between art and criticism.Subtitled Upon the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything, the essay takes the form of a leisurely dialogue between two characters: Ernest, who insists upon Wildes own belief in arts freedom from societal mandates and values, and a quizzical Gilbert. With his playwrights ear for dialogue, Wilde champions idleness and contemplation as prerequisites to artistic cultivation. Beyond the well-known dictum of art for arts sake, Wildes originality lays an argument for the equality of criticism and art. For him, criticism is not subject to the work of art, but can in fact precede it: the artist cannot create without engaging his or her critical faculties first. And, as Wilde writes, To the critic the work of art is simply a suggestion for a new work of his own.The field of art and criticism should be open to the free play of the mind, but Wilde plays seriously, even prophetically. Writing in 1891, he foresaw that criticism would have an increasingly important role as the need to make sense of what we see increases with the complexities of modern life. It is only the fine perception and explication of beauty, Wilde suggests, that will allow us to create meaning, joy, empathy and peace out of the chaos of facts and reality.Oscar Wilde (18541900) was an Irish poet and playwright who became one of Londons most popular writers in the early 1890s. Though often controversial, his flair for journalism and nose for scandal ensured that he was widely read. His bold essays on aesthetic philosophy, collected in the volume Intentions (1891), remain important and influential meditations of the nature of art criticism itself.

Oscar Wilde's poetry and plays have been entertaining readers and audiences for over a century, and for good reason. His infectious personality shows through his bitingly witty, satirical plays and bittersweet poems, making them endlessly compelling, unapologetically blunt and even melancholy. This collection of Oscar Wilde's genius poems follows the tradition of classical publications at Arcturus Publishing.

«J'ai mis tout mon génie dans ma vie; je n'ai mis que mon talent dans mon œuvre.» L'art ou la vie? Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) – pour qui écrire c'est peindre, sculpter – hésita tout

Los buenos novelistas —escribió Oscar Wilde— son mucho más raros que los buenos hijos. Quizá sería lícito añadir que los buenos cuentistas son aún más raros que los buenos novelistas. Antes que El re

Se trata de la primera colección bilingüe castellano-inglés de seis de las mejores novelas clásicas. Las traducciones al castellano han sido cuidadosamente seleccionadas. Los autores, universalmente

A full-cast dramatisation of Wilde's gothic masterpiece. When Dorian Gray gazes at his portrait he is struck by his own youth and beauty and wishes they will last forever. The portrait becomes a point of transference for his life of debauchery - corrupting and becoming vile as he remains beautiful.

Enthralled by a portrait of himself, young Dorian Gray makes a Faustian bargain to exchange his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Thus he is able to indulge in his desires, as only the portrait bears the traces of his decadence and becomes a nightmarish picture of his soul.

Softcover - Book and CD - Each title contains the original, unabridged text with footnotes to aid comprehension and phonetic spelling of difficult words. There is an extensive introduction about the authors life times, and wide variety of stimulating guided activities ranging from general comprehension to more in depth questions on character analysis, language, and themes to stimulate personal involvement and guide the student towards discussion and essay writing.