The Picture of Dorian Gray [1891] is Oscar Wilde's masterful novel about a beautiful young man who is portrayed by an artist, and whose picture proceeds to age in his place. Led astray by an older friend, Dorian Gray acts upon his desires with no regard for the consequences. Despite this, he always manages to escape unpunished. His painted portrait, however, becomes increasingly distorted; and finally, he can no longer endure it. The dandy novel of dandy novels, The Picture of Dorian Gray is a story whose main character has come to signify a phenomena far beyond the boundaries of literature. One of the great classics of English fiction, here accompanied by Wilde s intriguing early short story, The Canterville Ghost [1887].

OSCAR WILDE [born 1854 in Dublin, died 1900 in Paris] was an Irish poet, playwright, prose writer and essayist. His significance as a symbol for persecuted homosexuals is immeasurable. Wilde was sentenced to two years of imprisonment with hard labour, his works were boycotted, dramatic productions were shut down, and he was publicly vilified. His most famous prose works include the Faustian novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and the autobiographical book about his trial and imprisonment, De Profundis [1905].

Oscar Fingal O''Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on the 16th October 1854 in Dublin Ireland. The son of Dublin intellectuals Oscar proved himself an outstanding classicist at Dublin, then at Oxford. With his education complete Wilde moved to London and its fashionable cultural and social circles. With his biting wit, flamboyant dress, and glittering conversation, Wilde became one of the most well-known personalities of his day. His only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray was published in 1890 and he then moved on to writing for the stage with Salome in 1891. His society comedies produced enormous hits and turned him into one of the most successful writers of late Victorian London. Whilst his masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest, was on stage in London, Wilde had the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, prosecuted for libel. The trial unearthed evidence that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own arrest and trial for gross indecency. He was convicted and imprisoned for two years'' hard labour. It was to break him. On release he left for France, There he wrote his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol in 1898. He died destitute in Paris at the age of forty-six sipping champagne a friend had brought with the line ‘Alas I am dying beyond my means’. And here indeed is that master work The Picture Of Dorian Gray. Compelling, diabolical and at the time it caused great outrage. But as we know the pen of Oscar Wilde leads us where many others fear to go.

Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windemere’s Fan is a four-act comedy of manners set in London. It centers around the character of Lady Windermere who suspects that her husband may be having an affair with an older beautiful woman named Mrs Erlynne. Instead of leaving the other woman, the husband pays no heed to his wife’s complaints. He even invites Mrs Erlynne to attend a celebration in their house, which eventually pushes his wife to leave him and follow another man who has always been expressing his admiration for her. When Mrs Erlynne learns the story, she goes to Lady Windermere and tries to persuade her to return to her husband. In the climactic scene of the play, Mrs Erlynne follows her to her admirer’s room and informs her that she is actually her own mother. It turns out that, many years ago, Mrs Erlynne herself has gone through an imbroglio and divorced, being the victim of social prejudices against women. Lord Windermere has actually been hiding the truth from everybody, including his wife, in an attempt to help Mrs Erlynne to recover a respectable place in the London society.

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 novellerna i denna volym ger prov på hans drastiska humor och infama samtidskritik: »Miljonären som modell« ställer sociala hierarkier på ända och i »Spöket på Canterville« möter urgamla traditioner den moderna tiden i form av en vulgär och osentimental amerikansk familj, vilket skapar problem för ett spöke som haft det alltför lätt i århundraden. Huvudpersonen i »Lord Arthur Saviles brott« får i en spådom veta att han kommer att mörda en släkting, men uppfyller sannolikt densamma med sina försök att hantera den, och »Mr W. H:s porträtt« utgår från tanken att Shakespeares kärlekssonetter kunde vara riktade till en man. Det var den berättelsen som inledde en räcka skandaler som skulle följa Wilde livet ut. 

OSCAR WILDE [född 1854 i Dublin, död 1900 i Paris] var en irländsk prosaist, dramatiker och essäist. Till de mest berömda prosaverken hör den faustiska romanen Dorian Grays porträtt [The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1890] och novellen Spöket på Canterville [The Canterville Ghost, 1887]. 

"Jättefin samling"

Josefin Sundström, TV4 Nyhetsmorgon

"Det är förtjänstfullt initierat: Frankenstein är ett exempel på hur en litterär karaktär kan vara igenkännbar även för den som inte läst romanen... här kan antologin medverka till att sprida klassiska verk till en yngre målgrupp... Victor Medinas illustrationer är fängslande."

Bibliotekstjänst, Emma Hertley-Lundberg

En samling med de bästa rysarna genom tiderna. De flesta känner till historien om vampyren Dracula eller Frankensteins monster flitigt återkommande i populärkulturen. Dessa och ytterligare åtta berättelser presenteras här, anpassade till åldern nio till tolv år. Varje historia får ungefär fem uppslag och flera kompletterande illustrationer i färg.

Dracula (Stoker)

Frankenstein (Shelly)

Det skvallrande hjärtat (Poe)

Dr Jekyll och mr Hyde (Stevenson)

Dorian Grays porträtt (Wilde)

Mumien (Doyle)

Huset med de sju gavlarna (Hawthorn)

Legenden om Sleepy Hollow (Irving)

Spökpiraterna (Hodgeson)

Hans och Greta (Grimm)

En spännande antologi för den modiga som gillar att läsning ger rysningar. 

The Picture of Dorian Gray [1891] is Oscar Wilde's masterful novel about a beautiful young man who is portrayed by an artist, and whose picture proceeds to age in his place. Led astray by an older friend, Dorian Gray acts upon his desires with no regard for the consequences. Despite this, he always manages to escape unpunished. His painted portrait, however, becomes increasingly distorted; and finally, he can no longer endure it. The dandy novel of dandy novels, The Picture of Dorian Gray is a story whose main character has come to signify a phenomena far beyond the boundaries of literature. One of the great classics of English fiction, here accompanied by Wilde s intriguing early short story, The Canterville Ghost [1887].

OSCAR WILDE [born 1854 in Dublin, died 1900 in Paris] was an Irish poet, playwright, prose writer and essayist. His significance as a symbol for persecuted homosexuals is immeasurable. Wilde was sentenced to two years of imprisonment with hard labour, his works were boycotted, dramatic productions were shut down, and he was publicly vilified. His most famous prose works include the Faustian novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and the autobiographical book about his trial and imprisonment, De Profundis [1905].

Oscar Fingal O''Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on the 16th October 1854 in Dublin Ireland. The son of Dublin intellectuals Oscar proved himself an outstanding classicist at Dublin, then at Oxford. With his education complete Wilde moved to London and its fashionable cultural and social circles. With his biting wit, flamboyant dress, and glittering conversation, Wilde became one of the most well-known personalities of his day. His only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray was published in 1890 and he then moved on to writing for the stage with Salome in 1891. His society comedies produced enormous hits and turned him into one of the most successful writers of late Victorian London. Whilst his masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest, was on stage in London, Wilde had the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, prosecuted for libel. The trial unearthed evidence that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own arrest and trial for gross indecency. He was convicted and imprisoned for two years'' hard labour. It was to break him. On release he left for France, There he wrote his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol in 1898. He died destitute in Paris at the age of forty-six sipping champagne a friend had brought with the line ‘Alas I am dying beyond my means’. And here indeed is that master work The Picture Of Dorian Gray. Compelling, diabolical and at the time it caused great outrage. But as we know the pen of Oscar Wilde leads us where many others fear to go.

Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windemere’s Fan is a four-act comedy of manners set in London. It centers around the character of Lady Windermere who suspects that her husband may be having an affair with an older beautiful woman named Mrs Erlynne. Instead of leaving the other woman, the husband pays no heed to his wife’s complaints. He even invites Mrs Erlynne to attend a celebration in their house, which eventually pushes his wife to leave him and follow another man who has always been expressing his admiration for her. When Mrs Erlynne learns the story, she goes to Lady Windermere and tries to persuade her to return to her husband. In the climactic scene of the play, Mrs Erlynne follows her to her admirer’s room and informs her that she is actually her own mother. It turns out that, many years ago, Mrs Erlynne herself has gone through an imbroglio and divorced, being the victim of social prejudices against women. Lord Windermere has actually been hiding the truth from everybody, including his wife, in an attempt to help Mrs Erlynne to recover a respectable place in the London society.

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 novellerna i denna volym ger prov på hans drastiska humor och infama samtidskritik: »Miljonären som modell« ställer sociala hierarkier på ända och i »Spöket på Canterville« möter urgamla traditioner den moderna tiden i form av en vulgär och osentimental amerikansk familj, vilket skapar problem för ett spöke som haft det alltför lätt i århundraden. Huvudpersonen i »Lord Arthur Saviles brott« får i en spådom veta att han kommer att mörda en släkting, men uppfyller sannolikt densamma med sina försök att hantera den, och »Mr W. H:s porträtt« utgår från tanken att Shakespeares kärlekssonetter kunde vara riktade till en man. Det var den berättelsen som inledde en räcka skandaler som skulle följa Wilde livet ut. 

OSCAR WILDE [född 1854 i Dublin, död 1900 i Paris] var en irländsk prosaist, dramatiker och essäist. Till de mest berömda prosaverken hör den faustiska romanen Dorian Grays porträtt [The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1890] och novellen Spöket på Canterville [The Canterville Ghost, 1887]. 

"Jättefin samling"

Josefin Sundström, TV4 Nyhetsmorgon

"Det är förtjänstfullt initierat: Frankenstein är ett exempel på hur en litterär karaktär kan vara igenkännbar även för den som inte läst romanen... här kan antologin medverka till att sprida klassiska verk till en yngre målgrupp... Victor Medinas illustrationer är fängslande."

Bibliotekstjänst, Emma Hertley-Lundberg

En samling med de bästa rysarna genom tiderna. De flesta känner till historien om vampyren Dracula eller Frankensteins monster flitigt återkommande i populärkulturen. Dessa och ytterligare åtta berättelser presenteras här, anpassade till åldern nio till tolv år. Varje historia får ungefär fem uppslag och flera kompletterande illustrationer i färg.

Dracula (Stoker)

Frankenstein (Shelly)

Det skvallrande hjärtat (Poe)

Dr Jekyll och mr Hyde (Stevenson)

Dorian Grays porträtt (Wilde)

Mumien (Doyle)

Huset med de sju gavlarna (Hawthorn)

Legenden om Sleepy Hollow (Irving)

Spökpiraterna (Hodgeson)

Hans och Greta (Grimm)

En spännande antologi för den modiga som gillar att läsning ger rysningar.