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Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the...

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Wilde's short fiction includes such masterpieces as 'The Happy Prince', 'The Selfish Giant', 'Lord Arthur Savile's Crime' and 'The Canterville Ghost', as well as the daring narrative experiments of 'The Portrait of Mr. W. H.' and 'Poems in Prose'....

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Lady Windermere's Fan/Salome/A Woman of No Importance/An Ideal Husband/A Florentine Tragedy/The Importance of Being Earnest 'To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness' The Importance of Being Earnest ...

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Dorian Grays porträtt är Oscar Wildes roman om en vacker ung man som blir avmålad av en konstnär - och vars porträtt åldras i hans ställe. Av en äldre vän förleds Dorian Gray att följa sina begär, vilka konsekvenserna än blir, för honom själv elle...

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The Penguin English Library Edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 'I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me ... Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day - m...

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Få författare är så nära förknippade med engelskans wit som Oscar Wilde: den slagfärdiga dandyn, alltid med en dräpande replik redo. Hans briljanta konversationsförmåga gjorde honom berömd redan innan han inlett sin litterära bana. De fyra novelle...

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Chiltern creates the most beautiful editions of the World's finest literature. Your favourite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before; the tactile layers, fine details and beautiful colours of these remarkable covers make these tit...

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Den stilige Dorian Gray besitter en skönhet som är få förunnad. Han tycks aldrig åldras och har en omåttlig förkärlek för det ytligt vackra. Men vad de flesta inte vet är att han har en mörk hemlighet; ett porträtt, undangömt, som visar hans verkl...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young If it was only the other way!' Wilde's first an...

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'It would be unfair to expect other people to be as remarkable as oneself' Wilde's celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous biographers, the stupidity of the English - and his own genius. One of 46 new books in...

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Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the des...

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En samling med Oscar Wildes bästa citat. Cyniska, bitande aforismer men också tänkvärda, vackra ord. Här bjuds på skratt och eftertanke om vartannat. Ordkonst när den är som bäst. Vi ligger alla i rännstenen, men somliga av oss ser på stjärnorna. ...

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"The Picture of Dorian Gray "is Oscar Wilde's enduringly popular story of a beautiful and corrupt man and the portrait that reveals all his secrets. Entranced by the perfection of his recently painted portrait, the youthful Dorian Gray e...

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Dorian Gray is having his picture painted by Basil Hallward, who is charmed by his looks. But when Sir Henry Wotton visits and seduces Dorian into the worship of youthful beauty with an intoxicating speech, Dorian makes a wish he will live to regr...

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Oscar Wildes emotionally raw manuscript details the inner turmoil surrounding his relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas following his controversial arrest and conviction for gross indecency Its an honest and intimate look at the author in his most...

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Dorian Gray gives his soul for eternal youth. While his portrait changes hideously, reflecting his crimes and corruption, he remains outwardly flawless. This new edition uses the 1891 expanded text and shows how Wilde transformed his many sources.

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Dorian Gray. Så ung, så vacker, så oförstörd. Det syns inte minst på porträttet som Dorians gode vän, konstnären Basil Hallward målar av honom. När den cyniske och kvicke lord Henry Wotton håller ett tal för Dorian Gray om ungdomens övergående pra...

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I den vemodiga berättelsen Näktergalen och rosen vänder sig Oscar Wilde mot samhällets och människans ytlighet, ett tema som även återkommer i den roman som han idag kanske är mest känd för, Dorian Grays porträtt . Novellen anses vara ett svar på ...

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Det här är en ask fylld med berättelser om kärlek: Om stark förälskelse och om brustna hjärtan. Om fåfänga och ondska, omtanke och besvikelse. Fyra noveller skrivna av några av våra mest älskade författare genom tiderna. Asken innehåller fyra böck...

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Med denna samling av vackert skrivna, moderna sagor har Oscar Wilde fängslat unga och gamla läsare i generationer. Den innehåller fem berättelser i vilka hans ordkonst och fantasi får fritt spelrum. Boken är utsökt illustrerad av Charles Robinson....

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Wilde's witty and buoyant comedy of manners, filled with some of literature's most famous epigrams.

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More than 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted The Picture of Dorian Gray for publication in Lippincotts Monthly Magazine, the uncensored version of his novel appears here for the first time in a paperback edition. This volume restores all of the...

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The four great comedies of Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, were all written at the height of the controversial Irish author's powers in his last, doomed ...

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In this classic work, Wilde depicts the world as he saw it--harsh, shallow and terminal. Critics say that the novel is homoerotic and vulgar and has strong Faustian themes.

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De Profundis and Other Prison Writings is a new selection of Oscar Wilde's prison letters and poetry in Penguin Classics, edited and introduced by Colm Tibn. At the start of 1895, Oscar Wilde was the toast of London, widely feted for his most...

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When the Americans Mr and Mrs Otis and their four children move into Canterville Chase, its previous occupant Lord Canterville warns them that the ghost of his ancestor still haunts the house. Their disbelief is soon shattered by the nightly sound...

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The five original fairy tales included in this volume were first published by Davis Nutt in 1888. Although it is said that Wilde wrote them for his two young sons, the author himself claimed they were '. . . . not for children, but for childlike p...

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Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting materia...

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A fashionable young man sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty in Oscar Wilde's fascinating gothic tale. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde s only full-length novel, is the enduringly eerie story of a naive and irresistible young man lur...

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"Ah! du ville inte låta mig kyssa din mun, Iokanaan. Då skall jag kyssa den nu. Jag skall bita den med mina tänder så som man biter i en mogen frukt. Ja, jag skall kyssa din mun, Iokanaan. Jag sade ju det, inte sant? Jag sade ju det? Då skall...

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