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The Duchess of Padua is a play by Oscar Wilde: it is a melodramatic tragedy set in Padua and written in blank verse. It was written for the actress Mary Anderson in early 1883 while in Paris. She turned it down, and it eventually opened at The Broadway Theatre in New York under the title Guido Ferranti...

As London slides from one century into the next, a young man is cursed with the uncanny ability to remain both young and beautiful while descending into a life of heartless debauchery. With its glittering dialogue, provocative imagery and radical questioning of sexual and moral freedoms all brought...

Vera or, The Nihilists is a play by Oscar Wilde. It is a melodramatic tragedy set in Russia and is loosely based on the life of Vera Zasulich. It was Wilde's first play, and the first to be performed. In 1880, with only a few copies privately printed, arrangements were made with noted actresses...

The richness of Oscar Wilde's way with words and ideas is given full range in this sparkling collection of short stories written between 1887 and 1891. From the comic tales of The Canterville Ghost and Lord Arthur Savile's Crime to the marvelous fairy stories and fantasies of The Selfish Giant,...

An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedic stage play by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honour. The action is set in London, in "the present", and takes place over the course of twenty-four hours. "Sooner...

The Importance of Being Earnest shows a full measure of Oscar Wilde's legendary wit, and embodies more than any of his other plays, his decency and warmth. This edition contains substantial excerpts from the original four-act version which was never produced, as well as the full text of the final...

The Critic as Artist is an essay by Oscar Wilde, containing the most extensive statements of his aesthetic philosophy. A dialogue in two parts, it is by far the longest one included in his collection of essays titled Intentions published in May 1891. The Critic as Artist is a significantly revised...

A un antropólogo del FBI le asignan un extraño caso. Ritos satánicos, sacerdotes perseguidos, mafias, droga y el mismísimo Vaticano, que ha de elegir nuevo Papa, le ponen contra la policía y al propio FBI. ¿Quién está detrás de la trama y qué pretenden? Deberá descubrirlo mientras protege a la principal víctima de un pacto con el diablo que vence ya, cuando Jesucristo muere...

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...

Four-act play, written in 1881. According to Wikipedia: "Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered...

Une maison de grenades (en anglais A House of Pomegrenates) est un recueil de quatre contes d'Oscar Wilde publié en 1891. Cette œuvre forme une suite au recueil Le Prince heureux et autres contes (1888).

Edition enrichie (Présentation, biographie, bibliographie et notes) Qui est l'énigmatique « Mr. W H. » à qui sont dédiés les Sonnets de Shakespeare parus en 1609 ? La mystérieuse dédicace écrite alors par l'imprimeur a fait couler beaucoup d'encre, et de multiples hypothèses sont...

Le Portrait de Dorian Gray a été rédigé en 1890 puis complété en 1891. Ce roman fantastique est à la fois un manifeste esthétique et un récit moral. Bien qu'Oscar Wilde y développe l'idée d'un art dégagé de toute éthique, le jeune Dorian Gray va faire face à sa conscience morale à...

es livres de poésie des jeunes écrivains sont d'ordinaire des billets qui ne sont jamais payés. Néanmoins, on rencontre de temps en temps un volume si supérieur à la moyenne, qu'on résiste à grand'peine à la tentation attrayante de prophétiser étourdîment un bel avenir pour son auteur. Le...