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(0)Oscar Wilde
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Em "O Crime de Lord Arthur Savile', o protagonista é apresentado por Lady Windermere ao Sr. R. Septimus Podgers, um quiromante, que lhe lê a mão e lhe diz que no futuro ele será um assassino. Lorde Arthur quer casar, mas decide que não tem o direito de fazê-lo até ter cometido o assassinato. Começa por tentar assassinar a sua tia Clementina. Fingindo que é um mero comprimido, Lord Arthur dá-lhe uma cápsula de veneno que ela deverá tomar...
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The controversial comedic play from a master dramatist that shattered social conventions in England. Oscar Wilde's most brilliant tour de force, a witty and buoyant comedy of manners, has delighted millions with countless productions since its first performance at London's St. James' Theatre in 1895. The Importance of Being Earnest is celebrated not only for the lighthearted ingenuity of its plot, but also for its inspired dialogue, rich with scintillating...
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When a palm-reader reveals that Lord Arthur Savile's destiny is to be a murderer, Lord Arthur sets out to commit the crime so that he might marry without impediment. But was murder truly Lord Arthur's destiny or did it only seem to be so because of the palm-reader's suggestion?
Victorian author Oscar Wilde is known both as a playwright and prose author. Among his most famous works are The Picture of Dorian Gray, his only novel, the plays An Ideal...
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Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray; Oscar Wilde—Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde—Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray Der reiche und gutaussehende Dorian Gray führt ein ausschweifendes und lasterhaftes Leben und scheint eine endlose Jugend zu genießen. Dies verdankt er dem Besitz eines Portraits das ihn abbildet und an seiner statt altert. Dorian Gray wird zunehmend grausamer und maßloser sein Abbild immer hässlicher gezeichnet von Gray Alter und Sünden...
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Oscar Wilde was one of the most distinguished men of British letters in the nineteenth century. An accomplished and versatile writer of fiction, drama, poetry, essays, and criticism, he was known for his bitting wit and fearless challenges to the aesthetic and literary conventions of his day. The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Works collects Wildes complete fiction and plays, including The Picture of Dorian Gray, a novel condemned in its day as...
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El crímen de Lord Arthur Savile. Un joven prometedor, ha decidido casarse. Sin embargo, un obstáculo inesperado retrasa su proyecto cuando en una fiesta le lee la mano un quiromante y le confiesa que ve un asesinato en su futuro. A partir de ese momento, lord Savile decidirá tomar las riendas de su destino para poder casarse cuanto antes y proseguir así con su apacible vida de siempre.
El fantasma de Canterville. Una familia norteamericana, los...
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The Collected Oscar Wilde, by Oscar Wilde, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
-New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars
-Biographies of the authors
-Chronologies of...
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Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for gross indecency for consensual homosexual acts in "one of the first celebrity trials", imprisonment, and early death from meningitis...
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El señor Otis, Ministro de los Estados Unidos de América, viaja a Inglaterra con su familia y se instala en una casa de campo encantada. Lord Canterville, el anterior propietario de la casa, le advierte que el fantasma de Sir Simon de Canterville la habita desde que mató a su esposa, hace más de tres siglos. El Ministro descarta la historia del fantasma como una patraña y hace caso omiso de las advertencias de Lord Canterville. Cuando los Otis...
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When an American family purchase a haunted manor called Canterville Chase, the young daughter takes pity on the erstwhile ghost and endeavors to release him from his haunting.
Victorian author Oscar Wilde is known both as a playwright and prose author. Among his most famous works are The Picture of Dorian Gray, his only novel, the plays An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, and the short story collections Lord Arthur Savile's Crime...
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En primavera de 1890 Oscar Wilde envió su primera novela al Lippincot's Monthly Magazine. Escandalizado por su contenido, el director de la revista eliminó las huellas de homosexualidad del pintor Basil Halleward hacia Dorian Gray, junto a otras conductas heterosexuales muy avanzadas para la época. Casi quinientas palabras desaparecieron del texto: frases, párrafos enteros… Wilde, temeroso de la reacción de la moralista sociedad victoriana,...
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"El crítico como artista", de Oscar Wilde, es una exploración elocuente y sugerente de la naturaleza de la crítica y del papel del crítico en el ámbito artístico. Wilde cuestiona las nociones convencionales de la crítica y defiende la importancia de la interpretación subjetiva y el individualismo en la apreciación del arte. El autor profundiza en la idea de que el verdadero crítico es, de hecho, un artista por derecho propio, que contribuye...
74) Salomé
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Salomé - Original French text
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75) Salomé
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Russian
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Salomé” - is a work by the Irish philosopher, aesthete, writer and poet O. Wilde (1854 - 1900). One act play was written by the author in French in 1891. It was translated into English and published in London in 1894. The basis of the tragedy - is the story of Salome, the character of the New Testament. Salome - is the stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas, she is the one, who tempted Herod by dancing the Dance of the Seven Veils. To her stepfather's...
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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.
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When an illegitimate shepherd is revealed as the only heir to a unnamed country, the truth of the young boy's coronation regalia is revealed to him through three nightmares. With this in mind, the new king fashions a new coronation costume.
Victorian author Oscar Wilde is known both as a playwright and prose author. Among his most famous works are The Picture of Dorian Gray, his only novel, the plays An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest,...
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A rich merchant, Simone, discovers that his wife, Bianca, is having an affair with a prince named Guido Bardi. Incensed by the indignity visited upon him by the prince, Simone challenges his rival to a duel.
Although Oscar Wilde's A Florentine Tragedy was left incomplete, the story about Simone and Bianca was nonetheless adapted several times by composers and playwrights from around the world, and has been performed in various forms since the 1890s,...
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"A Picture is a Purely Decorative Thing" is a brand new collection of essays and excerpts on the subject of The Arts written by Oscar Wilde. Contents include: "The Artist", "The English Renaissance of Art", "An Exposure of Naturalism", "Sculpture at The Arts and Crafts", "House Decoration", "The Poetry of Archeology", "The Art of Archeology", "Art and the Handicraftsman", "Mr. Morris on Tapestry", "Lecture to Art Students", "The Relation of Dress...
80) Salome
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Oscar Wilde's play Salome is a twist on the execution of John the Baptist, fuelled by motives of lust and slaughter. Wilde's interpretation is deeply rooted in the Biblical story of Salome's dance to please Herod and her mother's plea for John the Baptist's head. Wilde's twist on the biblical story focuses on the personality of Salome and the hypersexual implications.