"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."
---Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

The novel tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward. Dorian is selected for his remarkable physical beauty, and Basil becomes strongly infatuated with Dorian, believing that his beauty is responsible for a new mode of art. Talking in Basil's garden, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, a friend of Basil's, and becomes enthralled by Lord Henry's world view. Espousing a new kind of hedonism,...

Es una parodia de los relatos de terror en la que un embajador americano Hiram B. Otis se traslada con su familia a un castillo encantado en Inglaterra. Lord Canterville, dueno anterior del castillo, le avisa de que el fantasma de Sir Simon de Canterville pulula por el castillo desde que este asesino a su esposa Lady Eleonore de Canterville. Pero el Sr. Otis desoye sus advertencias. Asi, la familia americana de mister Hiriam B. habitan en la mansion, burlandose constantemente del fantasma debido a la indiferencia de estos ante los sucesos paranormales.

The Picture of Dorian Gray is Oscar Wilde's vivid and entertaining Gothic parable of the aesthetic ideal. It tells the story of a handsome young man who sells his soul in exchange for eternal youth, then begins leading a double life with shattering consequences for himself and the people around him. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde's only novel, is widely considered one of Wilde's most absorbing and important literary achievements, and its influence on twentieth-century culture and fiction has been long-lasting and profound.

A Woman of No Importance is a play by Irish playwright Oscar Wilde. The play premiered on 19 April 1893 at London's Haymarket Theatre. Like Wilde's other society plays, it satirizes English upper class society. It has been performed on stages in Europe and North America since his death in 1900. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The...