Oscar Wilde eBooks
eBooks di Oscar Wilde editi da Foan
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 EPUB Oscar Wilde - Foan, 2020 -
Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works. Written in Wilde's characteristically dazzling manner, full of stinging epigrams and shrewd observations, the tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused something of a scandal when it first appeared in 1890. Wilde was attacked for his decadence and corrupting influence, and a few years later the book and the aesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trials occasioned by Wilde's homosexual liaisons, trials that resulted in his imprisonment. Of the book's value as autobiography, Wilde noted in a letter, "Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be--in other ages, perhaps."