Oscar Wilde eBooks
eBooks di Oscar Wilde editi da Mabed di Formato Mobipocket
nacque a Dublino nel 1854. Poeta, romanziere, commediografo, è il più importante scrittore dell’epoca vittoriana. Nel 1895, al culmine della sua fama, venne condannato per omosessualità a due anni di carcere duro. Morì nel 1900. Di Oscar Wilde la Newton Compton ha pubblicato: Poesie e Ballata dal carcere di Reading; L’importanza di essere onesto, Il ventaglio di Lady Windermere - Una donna senza importanza - Un marito ideale; De Profundis e Due lettere al «Daily Chronicle»; Il ritratto di Dorian Gray; Aforismi; Manuale del perfetto impertinente, Tutti i racconti e il volume unico Tutte le opere.
The Picture of Dorian Gray. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Oscar Wilde - Mabed, 2019 -
The Picture of Dorian Gray is a Gothic and philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Dorian Gray is the subject of a full-length portrait in oil by Basil Hallward, an artist impressed and infatuated by Dorian's beauty; he believes that Dorian's beauty is responsible for the new mood in his art as a painter. Through Basil, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, and he soon is enthralled by the aristocrat's hedonistic world view: that beauty and sensual fulfilment are the only things worth pursuing in life. Newly understanding that his beauty will fade, Dorian expresses the desire to sell his soul, to ensure that the picture, rather than he, will age and fade. The wish is granted, and Dorian pursues a libertine life of varied amoral experiences while staying young and beautiful; all the while, his portrait ages and records every sin.