Classic / British English The famous Canterville Ghost haunts an old house, but the ghost becomes unhappy when the new owners play tricks on him! In the other stories, we meet Lord Arthur Savile, who has to murder someone before he can get married, and we discover the secret life of beautiful Lady Alroy. This Pack contains a Book and MP3

A disturbing tale of a young man's uncanny ability to remain young and beautiful while descending into a life of heartless debauchery. A Picture of Dorian Gray, the scandalous 1891 bestseller, was considered proof of Wilde's genius, but also of his perversion: a damning piece of evidence used against him in the trial that brought about his downfall.

Salome (or in French: 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 her mother Herodias, requests the head of Jokanaan (John the Baptist) on a silver platter as a reward for dancing the Dance of the Seven Veils"

Oscar Wilde: Das Gespenst von Canterville The Canterville Ghost. Erstdruck in The Court and Society Review, London, 1887. Hier in der deutschen Ubersetzung von Franz Blei, Insel-Verlag, Leipzig, 1926. Vollstandige Neuausgabe mit einer Biographie des Autors. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2015. Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unter Verwendung des Bildes: Frederick Henry Townsend, Das Gespenst von Canterville, 1887. Gesetzt aus Minion Pro, 11 pt."

Oscar Wilde: Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray Originaltitel: The Picture of Dorian Gray. Erstdruck in: Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, Juli 1890. Erste Buchausgabe (mit 6 neuen Kapiteln und vielen Anderungen): London, New York, Melbourne (Ward Lock and Co.) 1891. Hier in der Ubers. v. Hedwig Lachmann und Gustav Landauer. Vollstandige Neuausgabe mit einer Biographie des Autors. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2015. Textgrundlage ist die Ausgabe: Wilde, Oscar: Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray. Ubers. v. Hedwig Lachmann und Gustav Landauer, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1972 Die Paginierung obiger...

Oscar Wilde: Der Sozialismus und die Seele des Menschen The Soul of Man under Socialism. Ertdruck 1891 in The Fortnightly Review. Hier in deutscher Ubersetzung von Hedwig Lachmann und Gustav Landauer, Schnabel, Berlin 1904. Vollstandige Neuausgabe mit einer Biographie des Autors. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2015. Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage. Gesetzt aus Minion Pro, 11 pt."

THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY is a philosophical novel by the writer Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. The magazine's editor feared the story was indecent, and without Wilde's knowledge, deleted roughly five hundred words before publication. Despite that censorship, The Picture of Dorian Gray offended the moral sensibilities of British book reviewers, some of whom said that Oscar Wilde merited prosecution for violating the laws guarding the public morality. In response, Wilde aggressively defended his novel and art in correspondence...

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae to escape burdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play's major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage, and the resulting satire of Victorian ways. Contemporary reviews all praised the play's humour, though some were cautious about its explicit lack...