Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde's classic comic ghost story was the first of his short stories to be published, in February 1887. It relates the experiences of Mr. Hiram B. Otis, an American minister and his family, when they move into Canterville Chase, an ancient pile haunted by the previous owner's dead ancestor, Sir Simon. Of course, Mr. Otis declares, "There is no such thing, sir, as a ghost", and all of Sir Simon's hauntings have no effect on the skeptical American...

Lord Arthur Savile, un joven con un porvenir promisorio, ha decidido casarse. Sin embargo, un obstáculo inesperado e incómodo retrasa su proyecto cuando un quiromante le confiesa que ve un asesinato en su futuro.

Oscar Wilde supposedly said that these fables were "intended neither for the British child nor the British public". A follow-up to his first popular fairy-tale collection ('The Happy Prince and Other Tales'), 'A House of Pomegranates' (1891) is indeed decidedly darker and more adult. The collection includes "The Young King", "The Birthday of the Infanta, "The Fisherman of his Soul", and "The Star Child". While similar, in some ways, to the fairy-tales...

Oscar Wilde wurde besonders durch seinen Witz und seine humorvollen, ironischen Stücke und Romane berühmt. Doch auch märchenhafte, nachdenkliche, heitere Geschichten gehörten zum Repertoire des wortgewandten englischen Literaten. Eine Auswahl seiner schönsten Erzählungen als Hörbuch: Die Sphinx ohne Geheimnis. Eine Radierung-Der Modellmillionär. Ein Zeichen der Bewunderung-Die Nachtigall und die Rose-Gedichte in Prosa-Der Lehrer der Weisheit....

A haunting meditation on justice, love, and human suffering – Wilde's final work, born from personal tragedy, remains one of the most powerful prison poems ever written. Written after his release from Reading Gaol in 1897, Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol reflects on the execution of fellow inmate Charles Thomas Wooldridge and the brutal realities of incarceration. Composed under the pseudonym ""C.3.3.""-Wilde's prison cell number-the poem...

Un molinero sin escrúpulos, manipulador y egoísta, y un granjero tan honesto que parece estúpido, son los protagonistas de esta historia contada por animales. Oscar Wilde refleja a la perfección diferentes aspectos de la condición humana: desde la amistad sincera hasta la avaricia.

"The Star-Child" by the Irish author Oscar Wilde, first published in 1891, is a fantasy story about a handsome boy who for the first ten years of his life believes that he is truly the son of a star. As a result, he believes himself to be superior to everyone else and becomes vain, arrogant and cruel. When his real mother, a beggar woman, comes to the village where he lives, he wants nothing to do with her and mocks her for her ugliness. As punishment...

La storia, descritta con uno stile velatamente ironico ma delicato, è anche improntata a un certo raffinato decadentismo, tipico di Wilde. Il breve racconto (non pi di quattro o cinque pagine) narra la storia di un giovane bello e di modeste risorse che, grazie ad un incredibile, quanto inaspettato colpo di fortuna, riesce ad arricchirsi ed a coronare il suo sogno d'amore. Il gioco della narrazione sta proprio nel finale totalmente a sorpresa che...