Oscar Wilde eBooks
eBooks di Oscar Wilde editi da Mike Thomas
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 Canterville GhostNew Revised Edition. E-book. Formato PDF Oscar Wilde - Mike Thomas, 2021 -
Finally The New Revised Edition is Available!The Canterville Ghost is a popular 1887 novella by Oscar Wilde, widely adapted for the screen and stage.“The Canterville Ghost” is a parody featuring a dramatic spirit named Sir Simon and the United States minister (ambassador) to the Court of St. James's, Hiram B. Otis. Mr. Otis travels to England with his family and moves into a haunted country house. Lord Canterville, the previous owner of the house, warns Mr. Otis that the ghost of Sir Simon de Canterville has haunted it ever since he killed his wife, Eleonore, three centuries before. But Mr. Otis dismisses the ghost story as bunk and disregards Lord Canterville’s warnings. When the Otises learn that the house is indeed haunted, they succeed in victimizing the ghost and in disregarding age-old British traditions. What emerges is a satire of American materialism, a lampoon of traditional British values, and an amusing twist on the traditional gothic horror tale.
The Picture of Dorian GrayNew Revised Edition. E-book. Formato PDF Oscar Wilde - Mike Thomas, 2021 -
Finally The New Revised Edition is Available!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."
A House of PomegranatesNew Revised Edition. E-book. Formato PDF Oscar Wilde - Mike Thomas, 2021 -
Finally The New Revised Edition is Available!A House of Pomegranates is a collection of whimisical short stories by Oscar Wilde. This collections includes the following tales: The Young King, The Birthday of the Infanta, The Fisherman and his Soul, and The Star-child. Readers of all ages will be delighted by these fanciful tales.