El abanico de Lady Windermere es una obra de teatro en cuatro actos de Oscar Wilde, estrenada el 22 de febrero de 1892 en el Teatro St James. La obra comienza cuando Lady Windermere descubre que su marido puede estar manteniendo una relacion con otra mujer. La duquesa de Berwick es la que ha delatado al marido. Lady Windermere se enfrenta a su esposo y le pide explicaciones, pero este rechaza las acusaciones e invita a la supuesta amante, Mrs Erlynne, al baile de cumpleanos de su mujer. Ultrajada por la infidelidad de su marido, Lady Windermere decide abandonarlo para seguir a Lord...

The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories By Oscar Wilde, Editorial Oneness (Edited by)

The Canterville Ghost By Oscar Wilde. "The Canterville Ghost" is a short story by Oscar Wilde, widely adapted for the screen and stage. It was the first of Wilde's stories to be published, appearing in two parts in The Court and Society Review, 23 February and 2 March 1887. The story is about a family who moves to a castle haunted by the ghost of a dead nobleman, who killed his wife and was starved to death by his wife's brothers.

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime This story was first published in The Court and Society Review, in late 1887. The main character, Lord Arthur Savile, is introduced by Lady Windermere to Mr Septimus R. Podgers, a chiromantist, who reads his palm and tells him that it is his destiny to be a murderer. Lord Arthur wants to marry, but decides he has no right to do so until he has committed the murder. His first attempted murder victim is his elderly Aunt Clementina, who suffers from heartburn. Pretending it is medicine, Lord Arthur gives her a capsule of poison, telling her to take it only when she has...

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 Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. Wilde's parents were successful Anglo-Irish Dublin intellectuals. Their son became fluent in French and German early in life. At university, Wilde read Greats; he proved himself to be an...

Vera Ivanovna Zasulich (Russian:8 August O.S. 27 July] 1849 - 8 May 1919) was a Russian Menshevik writer and revolutionary. 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 for a production the United Kingdom, but this never materialized. The first ever public performance was in New York in 1883 at the Union Square Theatre based on revisions made...