Oscar Wilde – författare
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Pocket, Svenska, 2025
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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.
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
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'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.
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
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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 - 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.
Häftad, Engelska, 2003
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'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
Inbunden, Engelska, 2008
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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 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.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
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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].
Inbunden, Svenska, 2018
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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 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].
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
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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 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.
Häftad, Svenska, 2018
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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.Jag kan motstå allt utom frestelser.En sentimentalist är bara någon som vill ha lyxen av en känsla utan att betala för den.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2008
309 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2000
58 kr
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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.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
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"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, The Raven and Other Selected Works by Edgar Allan Poe, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
Häftad, Svenska, 2017
219 kr
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)
Häftad, Svenska, 2019
229 kr
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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 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.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
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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.
Inbunden, Svenska, 2020
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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 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].
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Svenska, 2021
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This box is filled up with stories about the bittersweetness of love: about all-encompassing love but also broken hearts, vanity and evil, thoughtfulness and disappointment. Four short stories written by some of our most beloved authors of all time.
The box contains four pocket-sized books: Oscar Wilde - The Nightingale and the Rose & The Sphinx Without a Secret Mary Shelley - The Trial of Love Leo Tolstoy - After the Ball Virginia Woolf - The Legacy
The concept of Novellix is simple; small books, big stories, all contained within beautiful, accessible packages, perfect for reading on the go.
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Engelska, 201616 kr
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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 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.
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Häftad, Engelska, 2015
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'He was not blind to the fact that murder, like the religions of the Pagan world, requires a victim as well as a priest...'Wilde's supremely witty tale of dandies, anarchists and a murderous prophecy in London high society.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.Oscar Wilde (1854-1900). Wilde's works available in Penguin Classics are De Profundis and Other Prison Writings, The Complete Short Fiction, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays, The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose.
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De Profundis
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
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Inbunden, Svenska, 2024, 15+ år
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På en bjudning stöter lord Arthur Savile ihop med Septimus R. Podgers, en man som ägnar sig åt kiromanti, konsten att spå i händer. När Podgers spår Arthur får mannen en chock och avslöjar senare att den unge lorden är förutbestämd att bli en mördare. Arthur blir snart övertygad om att spådomen är sann, och eftersom han har planer på att gifta sig tycker han inte att det är rätt att genomföra bröllopet förrän han har utfört mordet – och kommit undan med det ...
Lord Arthur Saviles brott, först publicerad år 1887, är på samma gång en berättelse om ett brott och en oväntad lek med det övernaturliga – skriven med Oscar Wildes eleganta stil och kunskap om överklassens vanor och svagheter. I slutet av boken finns en kort biografi över Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) och mer information om novellen.
LÄTTLÄSTA KLASSIKER är en serie böcker för ungdomar och vuxna där klassiker i novellformat varsamt har bearbetats till lättillgängliga berättelser, skrivna av berömda författare genom tiderna, såsom Elizabeth Gaskell, Edgar Allan Poe och Charles Dickens. Varje volym ges ut i oavkortat format, med åtföljande noter som underlättar förståelsen av texten.
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
215 kr
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“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.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
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Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader. The young, beautiful and highly susceptible Dorian Gray is pulled into the hedonistic haze of London’s high society, where he falls under the pernicious influence of Lord Henry Wotton. Oscar Wilde’s nightmarish tale gorges on pleasure and sin, corruption and vanity, as the story takes further dark twists and a Faustian deal threatens Gray’s very soul. He will go to any lengths to keep his fleeting beauty and youth, but his painted portrait reveals the truth of his dark and twisted nature, changing its appearance at every misdeed, until the monstrous horror of Dorian’s scarred soul is too much for him to bear.
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
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A complete collection of enchanting fairy tales from the acclaimed poet and playwright Oscar WildeCelebrated as the writer of The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde is equally beloved for his fairy tales, written ‘partly for children and partly for those who have kept the childlike faculties of wonder and joy’. With warmth, tenderness and quiet wit, these fables have moved and delighted for generations. In far-off kingdoms and ocean realms, in the company of giants and nightingales, Wilde speaks of heartbreak and redemption, of cruelty and compassion, of love lost, of love gained, of love everlasting. Rediscover here the complete stories from The Happy Prince and The House of Pomegranates, Wilde’s two fairy tale collections.'Wilde's children's stories are splendid ... As explanations of the world, fairy stories tell us what science and philosophy cannot and need not. There are different ways of knowing' Jeanette Winterson
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
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'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.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
235 kr
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A luxurious gift edition of Wilde's classic children's talesOscar Wilde's children's tales have enchanted readers young and old alike for over a hundred years. This stunning new hardback edition is beautifully illustrated in full colour by major illustrator Lauren O'Hara and features six classic tales, including "The Happy Prince" and "The Selfish Giant".This is the first time an Irish publisher has produced an edition of these stories by a canonical Irish author, and no expense is spared: gorgeous paper, linen-effect cover, gold foil, cloth head-and-tail band and a ribbon bookmark adorn the book.In 1888, the famous queer Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde published a collection of bedtime stories for children. Oscar Wilde's Stories for Children is stunningly illustrated new edition of six of these tales. Feeling both classic and fresh, timeless and modern, Lauren O'Hara's delicate, rich colour illustrations bring this cornerstone of children's literature to life for readers of all ages.
Häftad, Engelska, 2000
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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.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
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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.
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
118 kr
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'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.