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Oscar Wilde’s play Salome is a twist on the execution of John the Baptist, fuelled by motives of lust and slaughter. Wilde’s interpretation is deeply rooted in the Biblical story of Salome’s dance to please Herod and her mother’s plea for John the Baptist’s head. Wilde’s twist on the biblical story focuses on the personality of Salome and the hypersexual implications.

Salome is a tragedy by Oscar Wilde. The original 1891 version of the play was in French. Three years later an English translation was published. The play tells in one act the Biblical story of Salome, stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas, who, to her stepfather's dismay but to the delight of...

LES GRANDS TEXTES DU XIXe SIÈCLE " L'expression était d'une cruauté atroce. Là, son âme même, émergeant de la toile, le dévisageait et l'appelait à son tribunal. " Devant son portrait, œuvre d'un de ses amis, Dorian Gray, jeune homme d'une immense fortune et d'une exceptionnelle...

Le livre, Intentions d'Oscar Wilde, traduit en français.

Oscar Wilde was a prominent Irish playwright and novelist in the late 19th century.  With classics such as The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde remains one of the most widely read authors today.  This edition of For Love of the King includes a table of contents.

If you love historical thrillers, this novel will cut your breath from the beginning. Anchored in remote medieval origins and using a genetic distinctive feature as a red thread, the story starts in a castle in Nazi Germany, a SS training and command center. The plot leads first to Antarctica...

Playwright, poet, essayist, flamboyant man-about-town, Oscar Wilde pack an astonishing amount of work, genius, and controversy into two short decades, producing masterworks in every literary genre. This selection includes almost all of his short stories, including "The Canterville Ghost,"...

Mirage is a short story that tells a love story in a violent environment. A French officer who obeys an uncertain chain of command in North Africa is ordered to report on the fate of a group of refugees fleeing ethnic cleansing carried out by the Tuaregs in Mali. The expected relief from the world...

The Happy Prince is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde first published in May 1888. It contains five stories: "The Happy Prince", "The Nightingale and the Rose", "The Selfish Giant", "The Devoted Friend", and "The Remarkable Rocket". In a town where a lot of poor people suffer and...

After Midnight is a journey. It’s not just the great feeling you get when you’re in love. It’s the loneliness you feel when you come home to an empty house. It’s the fear you have when you finally meet that person but you find it hard to allow that person inside your heart. It’s also the...

This collection includes: The Ballad of Reading Gaol, Charmides and Other Poems, and Selected Poems. 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...

Dopo aver lungamente scartabellato fra schizzi, bozzetti, ritagli di giornale, opuscoli, libri, tavole già pubblicate in varie occasioni e altre inedite o esposte brevemente solo a qualche rassegna di grafica, con questo volume – grazie anche all’amichevole complicità di Andrea Poli, che ha...

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 for his epigrams, plays and the circumstances...

HELPING OTHER PEOPLE WAS LIKE HELPING HIMSELF “Members of Alpha Rescue Recon, please proceed to Port B10 to board the U.N.D. Heisenberg. The vessel is departing in five minutes,” an automated female voice announced over the intercom system. Private Mulls hurried down the corridor,...