Salome is Oscar WildeAEs most experimentaluand controversialuplay. In its own time, the play, written in French, was described by a reviewer as oan arrangement in blood and ferocity, morbid, bizarre, repulsive, and offensive in its adaptation of scriptural phraseology of situations the reverse of sacred.o None, however, could deny the importance of WildeAEs creation. Contemporary audiences and reviewers variously regarded Salome as the symbol of a thrilling modernity, a challenge to patriarchy, a confession of desire, a sign of moral decay, a new form of art, and a revolt against the...
Salome is Oscar WildeAEs most experimentaluand controversialuplay. In its own time, the play, written in French, was described by a reviewer as oan ar...
Horror hides behind an attractive face in 'The Picture of Dorian Gray', Oscar Wilde's tale of a notorious Victorian libertine and his life of evil excesses.
Horror hides behind an attractive face in 'The Picture of Dorian Gray', Oscar Wilde's tale of a notorious Victorian libertine and his life of evil exc...
When the Selfish Giant decides to build a wall around his garden to prevent the children from playing in it, it becomes barren and stuck in perpetual winter. It takes a wonderful event and the heart of a young boy for him to realize the error of his ways.
A classic tale for children, The Selfish Giant is presented here with all of Oscar Wilde s other fairy stories The Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose, The Devoted Friend, The Remarkable Rocket, The Young King, The Birthday of the Infanta, The Fisherman and His Soul and The Star-Child brought to life by Philip Waechter s...
When the Selfish Giant decides to build a wall around his garden to prevent the children from playing in it, it becomes barren and stuck in perpetu...
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 Gespenst von Canterville The Canterville Ghost. Erstdruck in The Court and Society Review, London, 1887. Hier in der deutschen Uberse...
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: Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray Originaltitel: The Picture of Dorian Gray. Erstdruck in: Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, Juli 1890. Erste Buch...
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."
Oscar Wilde: Der Sozialismus und die Seele des Menschen The Soul of Man under Socialism. Ertdruck 1891 in The Fortnightly Review. Hier in deutscher Ub...
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 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...
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...
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 T...
Who would have thought a comedy of manners written more than 100 years ago would still be so apt and so funny? Oscar Wilde was a genius of play-writing, and his deftness, wit and sharp eye for social satire keep audiences in thrall to this day. Alongside Earnest, discover a biblical tragedy retold, Lady Windemere and her infamous fan and Wilde's take on an ideal husband, in this selection of Wilde's most important plays.
Who would have thought a comedy of manners written more than 100 years ago would still be so apt and so funny? Oscar Wilde was a genius of play-writin...
