Oscar Wilde – författare

FÖR FÖRSTA GÅNGEN PÅ SVENSKA DEN OCENSURERADE ORIGINALVERSIONEN. "I jämförelse med 1891 års version ter sig denna version överlägsen." Per Klingberg, Svenska Dagbladet. Oscar Wildes roman Dorian Grays porträtt i översättning och med efterord av Christian Ekvall. Här kommer en av litteraturens mest kända och omtalade romaner. Handlingen är mycket enkel: en ung, vacker man får sitt porträtt målat av en skicklig konstnär. Porträttet återger verkligen hans mycket vackra utseende perfekt. Men med tiden märks något underligt. Det är inte mannen som förändras och blir äldre när åren går. Istället är det målningen som åldras. Trots att mannen, Dorian Gray, som hunnit bli smått berömd för sitt vackra utseende, lever ett synnerligen dekadent liv i Londons mest förmögna och hårdast festande kretsar, förblir han till utseendet oförändrat purung och vacker allt medan hans porträtt börjar se allt mer härjat och obehagligt ut. Även Dorian Grays dåliga moral - hans alltmer ondskefulla personlighet - har börjat visa sig i målningen. Mungiporna har fått något elakt över sig, blicken har mörknat, huden har fått grymma, osympatiska rynkor. Fortsättningen är oerhört spännande och slutet är mycket intressant - och ska inte avslöjas här. Det är inte förvånande att denna roman räknas till en av litteraturens absoluta klassiker. Därtill är det en poäng att huvudpersonens närmaste vän, lord Henry Wotton, verkar vara ett språkrör för författaren själv, för skriftställaren och lebemannen Oscar Wilde, som var allmänt känd för sina krassa, ofta cyniska, ibland ändå rätt livsbejakande aforismer, alltid lika svepande och kategoriska påståenden om liv och leverne. Även i denna bok kryllar det av sådana formuleringar. "I frack kan vem som helst, till och med en börsmäklare, framstå som civiliserad." "Det enda sättet att göra sig av med en frestelse är ge efter för den." "Unga män vill vara trogna, men är det inte. Gamla män vill vara otrogna, men kan det inte." Viktigt att notera är att Bakhålls utgåva grundar sig på Wildes originalmanuskript från 1890, inte som tidigare svenska utgåvor på det engelska förlagets tillrättalagda och förmildrade version från 1891. I efterordet berättar Christian Ekvall om romanen, om rättegångarna som boken och författaren utsattes för (för att boken innehöll homosexuella eller åtminstone homoerotiska anspelningar) och om den färgstarke Oscar Wildes brokiga liv. Wilde var en för sin tid mycket frispråkig skribent som bland annat tillät sig att tala fördelaktigt om homosexualitet. Detta resulterade i två år i fängelse, något som knäckte honom fysiskt så att han dog några år senare, bara fyrtiosex år gammal. Oscar Wildes roman Dorian Grays porträtt i översättning och med efterord av Christian Ekvall. ISBN 978-91-7137-034-1. Pocket. 208 sidor.

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 eller andra. Trots det undkommer han alltid ostraffad. Hans målade porträtt blir däremot allt mer vanställt. Till sist står Dorian Gray inte ut längre.Dorian Grays porträtt, dandyromanernas dandyroman, är en berättelse vars huvudfigur har kommit att beteckna fenomen långt utanför litteraturens gränser, och till och med gett namn åt en sjukdomsdiagnos.En av den engelska litteraturens största klassiker, i svensk översättning av Nils Selander.Omslagsbild: Helmut Berger porträtterad av Elisabetta Catalano.OSCAR WILDE [född 1854 i Dublin, död 1900 i Paris] var en irländsk prosaist, dramatiker, essäist och poet. Wildes betydelse som symbol för förföljda homosexuella i världen är omätlig. Wilde själv dömdes till fängelse och straffarbete, verken bojkottades, dramatiska uppsättningar lades ner och han smutskastades offentligt. De mest berömda prosaverken är den faustiska romanen Dorian Grays porträtt [The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1890] och den självbiografiska boken om domen och fängelsevistelsen, De Profundis [1905].

'The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.'When Dorian Gray has his portrait painted, he is captivated by his own beauty. Tempted by his world-weary, decadent friend Lord Henry Wotton, he wishes to stay forever young, and pledges his very soul to keep his good looks. Set in fin-de-siécle London, the novel traces a path from the studio of painter Basil Hallward to the opium dens of the East End. As Dorian's slide into crime and cruelty progresses he stays magically youthful, while his beautiful portrait changes, revealing the hideous corruption of moral decay.Ever since its first publication in 1890 Wilde's only novel has remained the subject of critical controversy. Acclaimed by some as an instructive moral tale, it has been denounced by others for its implicit immorality. Combining elements of the supernatural, aestheticism, and the Gothic, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an unclassifiable and uniquely unsettling work of fiction. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

'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 the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

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 - mock me horribly!'A story of evil, debauchery and scandal, Oscar Wilde's only novel tells of Dorian Gray, a beautiful yet corrupt man. When he wishes that a perfect portrait of himself would bear the signs of ageing in his place, the picture becomes his hideous secret, as it follows Dorian's own downward spiral into cruelty and depravity. The Picture of Dorian Gray is a masterpiece of the evil in men's hearts, and is as controversial and alluring as Wilde himself.The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

Here is Oscar Wilde's most brilliant tour de force, a witty and buoyant comedy of manners that has delighted millions in countless productions since its first performance in London's St. James' Theatre on February 14, 1895. The Importance of Being Earnest is celebrated not only for the light-hearted ingenuity of its plot, but for its inspired dialogue, rich with scintillating epigrams still savored by all who enjoy artful conversation.From the play's effervescent beginnings in Algernon Moncrieff's London flat to its hilarious denouement in the drawing room of Jack Worthing's country manor in Hertfordshire, this comic masterpiece keeps audiences breathlessly anticipating a new bon mot or a fresh twist of plot moment to moment.

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 design. Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence. The novel was a succès de scandale and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895. It has lost none of its power to fascinate and disturb.

"Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic." Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, a Gothic masterpiece of supernatural horror, is presented here in a striking deluxe collector's edition designed to be as unforgettable as the story itself.Whether chosen as a gift or for your own library, this remarkable volume includes:A foil-accented hardcover that gleams with Wildean eleganceDecorative interior pages with memorable quotes throughoutA curated design perfect for collectors and dark academia shelvesWhen the wealthy and beautiful Dorian Gray sees his portrait for the first time, he is seized with despair at the thought of losing his youth to time. In a reckless bargain, he pledges his soul so that the portrait will bear the marks of age and corruption while his own face remains flawless. As Dorian pursues a life of decadence and cruelty, the painting grows ever more monstrous--a haunting reminder of the cost of vanity and excess.First published in 1890 and as unsettling today as it was then, The Picture of Dorian Gray remains a brilliant meditation on beauty, morality, and the peril of unchecked desire.The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde is part of the Gothic Chronicles Collection, which also includes Bram Stoker's Dracula, Dante's Inferno, and The Raven and Other Selected Works by Edgar Allan Poe.

'A triumph of execution ... one of the best narratives of the "double life" of a Victorian gentleman' Peter AckroydOscar Wilde's alluring novel of decadence and sin was a succès de scandale on publication. It follows Dorian Gray who, enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life, indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his depravity. This definitive edition includes a selection of contemporary reviews condemning the novel's immorality.Edited with an Introduction and notes by ROBERT MIGHALL

”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 jag kyssa den, nu.” Detta är en unik, trespråkig utgåva av Oscar Wildes pjäs Salome. Den innehåller den franska originaltexten, den första översättningen till engelska komplett med Aubrey Beardsleys illustrationer, samt Hillevi Hellbergs nyöversättning till svenska. Texten föregås av ett initierat förord av Cecilia Carlander och är utförligt försedd med kommentarer av översättaren.

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.Jag kan motstå allt utom frestelser.En sentimentalist är bara någon som vill ha lyxen av en känsla utan att betala för den.

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."Vacker och läsvärd." Tryggve Lundh, BTJ (nr 24, 2017)

“Now, for the first time, we can read the version that Wilde intended…Both the text and Nicholas Frankel’s introduction make for fascinating reading.” —Paris Review More than 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted The Picture of Dorian Gray for publication in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, the uncensored version of his novel appears here for the first time in a paperback edition. This volume restores all of the material removed by the book’s first editor. Upon receipt of the typescript, Wilde’s editor panicked at what he saw. Contained within its pages was material he feared readers would find “offensive”—especially instances of explicit homosexual content. He proceeded to go through the typescript with his pencil, cleaning it up until he made it “acceptable to the most fastidious taste.” Wilde did not see these changes until his novel appeared in print. Wilde’s editor’s concern was well placed. Even in its redacted form, the novel caused public outcry. The British press condemned it as “vulgar,” “unclean,” “poisonous,” “discreditable,” and “a sham.” When Wilde later enlarged the novel for publication in book form, he responded to his critics by further toning down its “immoral” elements.Wilde famously said that The Picture of Dorian Gray “contains much of me”: Basil Hallward is “what I think I am,” Lord Henry “what the world thinks me,” and “Dorian what I would like to be—in other ages, perhaps.” Wilde’s comment suggests a backward glance to a Greek or Dorian Age, but also a forward-looking view to a more permissive time than his own repressive Victorian era. By implication, Wilde would have preferred we read the uncensored version of his novel today.

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.When having his portrait painted, Dorian Gray declares he would give anything to stay youthful - even his soul. Dorian descends into a life of decadent excess, and while he retains his youthful looks, the portrait becomes horrifically disfigured. Oscar Wilde's only novel is a dark, Faustian fable of wish fulfilment that leads to an inescapable day of reckoning.Chiltern are publishers of exquisitely crafted editions of the world's finest classic literature. These beautiful books are a perfect mix of tradition and the very latest in printing techniques. With wonderful original, detailed and embossed covers, sparkling gilt edges, cream art paper, ribbon markers and stitched binding they are simply the most beautiful classics ever published.

'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life'The two works brought together here, 'The Decay of Lying' and 'The Critic as Artist', are Oscar Wilde's wittiest and most profound writings on aesthetics, in which he proposes that criticism is the highest form of creation and that lying, the telling of a beautiful untruth, is the ultimate aim of art.One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists.

Epigrams, aphorisms, and other bon mots gathered from the celebrated wit's plays, essays, and conversation offer an entertaining selection of observations both comic and profound. Organized by category, the nearly 400 quotes range in subject from human nature, morals, and society to art, politics, history, and more.

Dive into a gothic world of obsession, excess, and debauchery with this stunning edition of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray.Artist Basil Hallward has sent a gift. A portrait that perfectly captures young Dorian Gray’s handsome features. When Lord Henry tempts Dorian with a new lifestyle of hedonism and pleasure, he realizes that he would sell his soul for an eternity of debauchery. Oscar Wilde’s only published novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, is a dark and sinful story of excess and vice.This collectible edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray features:An elegant faux-leather cover with foil-embossed designsIntroduction by notable scholar John KennyUnabridged textThis haunting classic is a perfect gift or a wonderful addition to your home library.Essential volumes for the shelves of every classic literature lover, Chartwell Deluxe Editions offer beautifully presented works from some of the most important authors in literary history. Other deluxe classics from Chartwell include Little Women, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, Anne of Green Gables, The Inferno, Dracula, The Republic, The Iliad, Meditations, and Irish Fairy and Folk Tales.

'It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.'The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) proclaims that it is 'A Trivial Play for Serious People'. In fact, collected here alongside Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), Salome (1891, 1894), A Woman of No Importance (1893), and An Ideal Husband (1895), Earnest shows that the questions raised by Wilde's plays are anything but trivial. Witty and radical, they elegantly challenge Victorian social proprieties, featuring lies, blackmail, illicit desires, seductions, and double lives. This volume, edited by Kate Hext, positions Wilde's major plays in the context of Wilde's life, career, and late-Victorian culture. Its introduction provides a readable overview with stylistic analyses to help readers understand the plays and why they are still fresh and relevant today, followed by sections on each play which explain key figures, plot devices, and Wilde's evolution as a dramatist.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

A universal favorite, The Importance of Being Earnest displays Oscar Wilde’s wit and theatrical genius at their brilliant best. Subtitled “A Trivial Comedy for Serious People,” this hilarious attack on Victorian manners and morals turns a pompous world on its head, lets duplicity lead to happiness, and makes riposte the highest form of art. Written, according to Wilde, “by a butterfly for butterflies,” it is a dazzling masterpiece of comic entertainment.Although it was originally written in four acts, The Importance of Being Earnest is usually performed in a three-act version. This authoritative edition features an appendix that restores valuable lines that appeared in the original.Also included in this special collection are Wilde’s first comedy success, Lady Windermere’s Fan, and his richly sensual melodrama, Salomé, which he called “that terrible coloured little tragedy I once in some strange mood wrote”—and which shocked and enraged the censors of his time.Includes an Introduction by Sylvan Barnetand an Afterword by Elise Bruhl and Michael Gamer

The Picture of Dorian Gray altered the way Victorians understood the world they inhabited. It heralded the end of a repressive Victorianism, and after its publication, literature had—in the words of biographer Richard Ellmann—“a different look.” Yet the Dorian Gray that Victorians never knew was even more daring than the novel the British press condemned as “vulgar,” “unclean,” “poisonous,” “discreditable,” and “a sham.” Now, more than 120 years after Wilde handed it over to his publisher, J. B. Lippincott & Company, Wilde’s uncensored typescript is published for the first time, in an annotated, extensively illustrated edition.The novel’s first editor, J. M. Stoddart, excised material—especially homosexual content—he thought would offend his readers’ sensibilities. When Wilde enlarged the novel for the 1891 edition, he responded to his critics by further toning down its “immoral” elements. The differences between the text Wilde submitted to Lippincott and published versions of the novel have until now been evident to only the handful of scholars who have examined Wilde's typescript.Wilde famously said that Dorian Gray “contains much of me”: Basil Hallward is “what I think I am,” Lord Henry “what the world thinks me,” and “Dorian what I would like to be—in other ages, perhaps.” Wilde’s comment suggests a backward glance to a Greek or Dorian Age, but also a forward-looking view to a more permissive time than his own, which saw Wilde sentenced to two years’ hard labor for gross indecency. The appearance of Wilde’s uncensored text is cause for celebration.

With an Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London.Wilde, glamorous and notorious, more famous as a playwright or prisoner than as a poet, invites readers of his verse to meet an unknown and intimate figure. The poetry of his formative years includes the haunting elegy to his young sister and the grieving lyric at the death of his father. The religious drama of his romance with Rome is captured here, as well as its resolution in his renewed love of ancient Greece.He explores forbidden sexual desires, pays homage to the great theatre stars and poets of his day, observes cityscapes with impressionist intensity. His final masterpiece, 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol', tells the painful story of his own prison experience and calls for universal compassion. This edition of Wilde's verse presents the full range of his achievement as a poet.

Gloriously adapted and illustrated by the winner of the British Book Awards Nibbie for Children’s Illustrated Book of the Year and the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize.'This gorgeous version of Oscar Wilde's classic fable is a heartwarming delight' - Waterstones, Best Children's Books June 2024Swallow is a homeless boy who’s just arrived in the big city. He settles down for the night under the golden and bejewelled statue of the Happy Prince, yet when he looks up he sees the statue is weeping. What could a golden Happy Prince possibly have to feel sad about?But from his view high above the city, the prince can see the suffering of the poor. He asks little Swallow to take his jewels and gold to the people who need them most. Can the statue and the boy find a way to bring happiness to everyone in the city?

The Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde is the only truly complete and authoritative single-volume edition of Oscar Wilde’s works, and is available in both hardback and this paperback edition.Continuously in print since 1948, the Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde has long been recognised as the most comprehensive and authoritative single-volume collection of Wilde’s texts available, containing his only novel, The Portrait of Dorian Gray, as well as his plays, stories, poems, essays and letters, all in their most authoritative texts.Illustrated with many fascinating photographs, the book includes introductions to each section by Merlin Holland (Oscar’s grandson), Owen Dudley Edwards, Declan Kiberd and Terence Brown.Also included is a comprehensive bibliography of works by and about Oscar Wilde, and a chronological table of his life and work.