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A rich merchant, Simone, discovers that his wife, Bianca, is having an affair with a prince named Guido Bardi. Incensed by the indignity visited upon him by the prince, Simone challenges his rival to a duel.
Although Oscar Wilde's A Florentine Tragedy was left incomplete, the story about Simone and Bianca was nonetheless adapted several times by composers and playwrights from around the world, and has been performed in various forms since the 1890s,...
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¡Qué triste es!, murmuró Dorian Gray con los ojos aún fijos en su propio retrato. ¡Qué triste es! Me volveré viejo, horrible y espantoso. Pero este retrato permanecerá siempre joven. Nunca será más viejo que este día concreto de junio... ¡Si fuera al revés! ¡Si fuera yo el que fuera siempre joven, y el cuadro el que envejeciera! Por eso... por eso... ¡lo daría todo! Sí, no hay nada en el mundo entero que no daría. ¡Daría mi alma...
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The generosity of man is revealed when a poor man gives his last coin to a beggar, only to learn that the beggar is in fact a rich baron in disguise.
Victorian author Oscar Wilde is known both as a playwright and prose author. Among his most famous works are The Picture of Dorian Gray, his only novel, the plays An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, and the short story collections Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories and The...
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"An Ideal Husband" is a play in four acts by Oscar Wilde. The narrative revolves around a Government minister named Sir Robert Chiltern whose successful career and happy marriage life are put under threat with the arrival into London society of Mrs. Cheveley, who appears to have in her possession evidence of Chiltern's past transgressions. Panicking, Chiltern turns to his friend the scandalous Lord Goring, who is familiar with Mrs. Cheveley and her...
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An Ideal Husband is a four-act play by Oscar Wilde that revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honour. It was first produced at the Haymarket Theatre, London in 1895 and ran for 124 performances. It has been revived in many theatre productions and adapted for the cinema, radio and television.
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"Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories" is an 1891 collection of short stories by Oscar Wilde. Imbued with Wilde's famous wit, these clever mystery stories will not disappoint fans of Wilde's work and the short story form. The stories include: ″Lord Arthur Savile's Crime," ″The Canterville Ghost," ″The Sphinx Without a Secret," and "The Model Millionaire."
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A selfish giant reforms his ways when the laughter of children brings the beauty of spring to his garden.
Victorian author Oscar Wilde is known both as a playwright and prose author. Among his most famous works are The Picture of Dorian Gray, his only novel, the plays An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, and the short story collections Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories and The Happy Prince and Other Stories.
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"Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman" is a play in four-acts by Oscar Wilde, first produced in 1892. It is a tale of scandal and the fall of a woman from grace in a hypocritical and absurdly contradictory high society. A sharp comedy packed full of the cutting witticisms and powerful aphorisms for which Wilde is famous, "Lady Windermere's Fan" is not to be missed by fans of the stage and of Wilde's seminal work in particular.
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"The Ballad of Reading Gaol and De Profundis" collects together some of Oscar Wilde's most important writings during and concerning his two-year-long incarceration for "gross indecency". In the words of Oscar Wilde, we see his recognition for the part that he plays in his own downfall. While he never directly admits to his crimes, numerous contemporary witnesses seem to validate the charges against him. Yet Wilde could have avoided his fate if he...
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Celebrated Irish dramatist and wit Oscar Wilde - best known for his poetry and his stage comedies - managed to complete only one novel during his career, The Picture of Dorian Gray, a brilliant and (at the time) scandalous narrative, in which Wilde explores the life of a young man who sells his soul in order to live the profligate life of an avowed hedonist. Through a bit of supernatural magic, Dorian is given a portrait of himself that reflects his...
51) Cuentos
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El artista es el creador de cosas bellas, dice Oscar Wilde, en aquella suerte de declaración de principios que acompaña las primeras páginas de su famosa novela El retrato de Dorian Gray. Quizás no hay mejor muestra de la belleza que él mismo pretendió a lo largo de su vida y obra, que en los cuentos seleccionados por Editorial Universitaria para esta edición. Magia, encanto, amor y dolor, gracia y vuelo poético, en fin, todos los elementos...
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A selfish miller proves to be the downfall of his devoted friend and gardener, Hans, even as he benefits from the fruits of Hans's labour.
Victorian author Oscar Wilde is known both as a playwright and prose author. Among his most famous works are The Picture of Dorian Gray, his only novel, the plays An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, and the short story collections Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories and The Happy Prince...
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Abandoned as an infant and raised by a poor woodcutter, The Star-Child grows up to be vain and cruel. But when he rejects a beggar who is revealed to be his mother, The Star-Child is punished, and sets out to seek forgiveness for his actions.
Victorian author Oscar Wilde is known both as a playwright and prose author. Among his most famous works are The Picture of Dorian Gray, his only novel, the plays An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being...
54) El crítico como artista - La decadencia de la mentira / The Critic as Artist - The Decay of Lying
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"El crítico como artista", de Oscar Wilde, es una exploración elocuente y sugerente de la naturaleza de la crítica y del papel del crítico en el ámbito artístico. Wilde cuestiona las nociones convencionales de la crítica y defiende la importancia de la interpretación subjetiva y el individualismo en la apreciación del arte. El autor profundiza en la idea de que el verdadero crítico es, de hecho, un artista por derecho propio, que contribuye...
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Este libro contiene tres ensayos escritos (y dictados) entre 1882 y 1889: Lección para estudiantes de arte, Decoración del hogar y Modelos londinenses. Reflejan el interés y profundidad del autor acerca del arte y la belleza: en ellos no solo aborda la composición, el color y los materiales, sino también la universalidad de lo bello en la decoración, en el vestuario y en el mero existir.
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"Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde" by Oscar Wilde. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce...
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Em "O Crime de Lord Arthur Savile', o protagonista é apresentado por Lady Windermere ao Sr. R. Septimus Podgers, um quiromante, que lhe lê a mão e lhe diz que no futuro ele será um assassino. Lorde Arthur quer casar, mas decide que não tem o direito de fazê-lo até ter cometido o assassinato. Começa por tentar assassinar a sua tia Clementina. Fingindo que é um mero comprimido, Lord Arthur dá-lhe uma cápsula de veneno que ela deverá tomar...
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"Charmides and Other Poems" is a 1913 collection of poetry by Oscar Wilde. The poems include: "Charmides", "Requiescat", "San Miniato", "Rome Unvisited", "Humanitad", "Louis Napoleon", "Endymion (For Music)", "Le Jardin", "La Mer", "Le Panneau", "Les Ballons", "Canzonet", "Le Jardin des Tuileries", "Pan Double Villanelle", "In the Forest", "Symphony in Yellow", etc. A fantastic collection of some of Wilde's best poetry not to be missed by fans and...
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For centuries the mystery of the identity of Mr. W. H., the dedicatee of William Shakespeare's sonnets has confounded literary historians. Consumed with solving the mystery, Erskine comes to believe any evidence put in front of him-real or not.
Victorian author Oscar Wilde is known both as a playwright and prose author. Among his most famous works are The Picture of Dorian Gray, his only novel, the plays An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being...
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Contained in this volume are three of Oscar Wilde's shorter dramatic works. Vera, or the Nihilists, the longest of the three, is a complete four-act play with a prologue. A Florentine Tragedy-A Fragment, is as the title would suggest a fragment of an act and La Sainte Courtisane is also but a single act. Wilde fans will delight in these shorter examples of his talent as a dramatic humorist.