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Oscar Wilde is at his imaginative best in this wonderful collection of fairy tales. The five stories include `The Happy Prince?, `The Selfish Giant?, `The Nightingale and the Rose?, and `The Devoted Friend? and `The Remarkable Rocket?. The stories have become popular classics and adapted in all kinds...

Frightening stories give us the means to explore the things that scare us… but only as far as our imaginations and our experiences allow. They keep us safe while letting us imagine we're in peril. Stories, after all, are never about what they're about: there is always a pocket somewhere within them...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose, and the...

A universal favorite, The Importance of Being Earnest displays Oscar Wilde's theatrical genius at its brilliant best. Subtitled "A Trivial Comedy for Serious People", this hilarious attack on Victorian manners and morals turns a pompous world on its head, lets duplicity lead to happiness, and makes...

Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners - the stories collected in this volume made Oscar Wilde's name as a writer of fiction, showing breathtaking dexterity in a wide range of literary styles. Victorian moral justice is comically inverted in 'Lord Arthur Savile's Crime'...

A Selection is an anthology of the works of Oscar Wilde that contains his poetry plays poems in prose and prose works. The poems include Ravenna (1878) an early work about the ancient Italian city and The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898) which deals with death penalty. The Canterville Ghost (1887) is a...

The Best Short Stories - 3 AUTHORS Edgar Allan Poe, Kate Chopin, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Oscar Wilde, O. Henry, H. P. Lovecraft, Willa Cather , Leo Tolstoy , Sherwood Anderson , Vsevolod Garshin , Edited by Ahmet Ünal ÇAM  

These special fairy tales, which Oscar Wilde made up for his own sons, include 'The Happy Prince', who was not as happy as he seemed; 'The Selfish Giant', who learned to love little children; 'The Star Child', who suffered bitter trials when he rejected his parents. . . . Often whimsical and sometimes sad, they all shine with poetry and magic.

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 y El fantasma de Canterville. El propósito de la elección obedeció a que...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Known for his barbed wit, Oscar Wilde was one of the most successful late-Victorian playwrights and a great celebrity. The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray are among his best known...

«El fantasma de Canterville» («The Canterville Ghost») es un cuento del escritor, dramaturgo y poeta británico-irlandés Oscar Wilde, publicado por primera vez en 1887 en la revista The Court and Society Review. En 1891 fue incluido en una colección de historias cortas titulada El crimen de...

Oscar Wilde fue uno de los autores más celebrados de su tiempo y todavía hoy, a más de cien años de su temprana muerte, sigue cosechando el fervor de los lectores. Dramaturgo, poeta, narrador, intelectual agudo pero también escandaloso para su época, concibió El fantasma de Canterville como...

Miscellanies by Oscar Wilde is a classic collection of works by one of the worlds most loved and respected authors. This is a modern edition of a timeless classic.

Obras Primas de tirar o fôlego! Uma seleção rigorosa de doze contos de suspense e terror escritos pelos melhores escritores do gênero: Edgar Allan Poe, Frank Richard Stockton; Machado de Assis, Guy de Maupassant, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Gabriel Garcia Marques, Monteiro Lobato, Oscar Wilde, W.W....