Books by Oscar Wilde

IL PRINCIPE FELICE ED ALTRE STORIE Fiabe di Oscar Wilde Titolo originale: The Happy Prince and Other Tales 5 FIABE INCLUSE IL PRINCIPE FELICE L'USIGNOLO E LA ROSA IL GIGANTE EGOISTA L'AMICO DEVOTO IL RAZZO ECCEZIONALE

Four classic Oscar Wilde short stories: The Happy Prince The Nightingale and the Rose The Selfish Giant The Fisherman and his Soul Including an introduction by Murial Carvolth.

Play script, including biographical notes, textual details and information about the staging of the play.

Serving prison time with hard labor for the crime of gross indecency, Oscar Wilde wrote some of his most powerful works. A savage indictment of society, and testimony to private sufferings, his prison writings-illuminated by Nicholas Frankel's notes-reveal a different man from the dandy and aesthete who shocked or amused the English-speaking world.

Oscar Wildes mest berømte og berygtede skuespil om den skønne Salome, der med sin dans besnærer sin stedfar, tetrarken af Judæa, til at udlevere sig Johannes Døberens hoved på et sølvfad.

En Australie: la chasse a l'oppossum / par Oscar WildDate de l'edition originale: 1886Ce livre est la reproduction fidele d'une oeuvre publiee avant 1920 et fait partie d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande editee par Hachette Livre, dans le cadre d'un partenariat avec la Bibliotheque nationale de France, offrant l'opportunite d'acceder a des ouvrages anciens et souvent rares issus des fonds patrimoniaux de la BnF.Les oeuvres faisant partie de cette collection ont ete numerisees par la BnF et sont presentes sur Gallica, sa bibliotheque numerique.En entreprenant de redonner vie a ces ouvrages au travers d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande, nous leur donnons la possibilite de rencontrer un public elargi et participons a la transmission de connaissances et de savoirs parfois difficilement accessibles.Nous avons cherche a concilier la reproduction fidele d'un livre ancien a partir de sa version numerisee avec le souci d'un confort de lecture optimal. Nous esperons que les ouvrages de cette nouvelle collection vous apporteront entiere satisfaction.Pour plus d'informations, rendez-vous sur www.hachettebnf.frhttp: //gallica.bnf.fr/ark: /12148/bpt6k80408g

WORK IS IN FRENCH This book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books reprinted and edited by Hachette Livre, in the framework of a partnership with the National Library of France, providing the opportunity to access old and often rare books from the BnF's heritage funds.

Oscar Wilde, better known as a genius of English literature, was also an avid advocate of 'socialism' of an 'individualistic or 'anarchist' variety. However Wilde's socialism, like his literary genius, was highly original. Wilde was neither a socialist nor an anarchist in the conventional sense, still less what has come today to be regarded as 'socialism' or 'anarchism'. Wilde was an aesthete, not an economist. Therefore, the socialism he expounded had as its purpose the elevation of the individual to new heights of creativity and culture, rather than as merely a change of ownership of the machinery of production from 'bourgeoisie' to 'proletariat'. The Marxists and most other socialists offer only a mirror image of capitalism. There is no intention of transcending the capitalist ethic but of merely taking it over in the name of the 'worker'. Wilde's socialism sought to get the individual off the economic treadmill, to provide him with the time to stop and appreciate the higher things in life. The aim of this freedom was to bestow the opportunities that would again see the flowering of cultural achievement and appreciation, not just among 'privileged' sectors of society, but among all who are capable of allowing their souls to soar above a merely produce-and-consume existence.The Soul of Man Under Socialism redefines the purpose of human life beyond the crass materialism of both capitalism and orthodox socialism. Given the ever-increasing hours all sectors of society are working, regardless of improvements in technology, Wilde's message of freedom from economic burdens is even more timely.

Oscar Wildes "De profundis" indeholder et brev skrevet til Lord Alfred Douglas – den samme mand, hvis far anklagede Wilde for homoseksualitet, hvilket i sidste ende resulterede i to års fængsel og strafarbejde til Oscar Wilde. Under dette ophold fik Wilde tilladelse til at skrive pågældende brev om deres handlinger og livsførelse til Alfred Douglas. Men hver gang Wilde havde færdigskrevet en side, blev den taget fra ham. Først ved sin løsladelse fik Wilde det samlede brev retur. Indholdet blev udgivet posthumt i en censureret udgave i 1905, og først i 1962 udkom det samlede, ucensurerede brev.Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) var en irsk forfatter, der skrev romaner, poesi og teaterstykker. Wilde var en stor fortaler for en dekadent kunst for kunstens skyld, som prægede kulturlivet i slutningen af 1800-tallet. Udover at være kendt for sin flamboyante personlighed, var Wilde også kendt for sine litterære udgivelser. Særligt teaterstykkerne "Lady Windermere’s Fan" (1892) og "The Importance of Being Earnest" (1895) blev godt modtaget af offentligheden, imens hans måske mest berømte roman, "The Picture of Dorian Gray" (1890), måtte udgives i en censureret udgave særligt på grund af homoseksuelt indhold. Det var på sin vis også dette forhold, der blev Wildes undergang, da han blev anklaget for at have et forhold til en anden mand. Provokeret af anklagen sagsøgte Wilde for bagvaskelse. I stedet for den forventede oprejsning blev Wilde idømt to års strafarbejde og døde blot få år efter sin løsladelse.