Oscar: 1500 books

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the circumstances of his imprisonment, followed by his early death. -wikipedia

This classic collection of essays and excepts from Oscar Wilde include THE TOMB OF KEATS, KEATS'S SONNET ON BLUE, DINNERS AND DISHES, SHAKESPEARE ON SCENERY, and 'HENRY THE FOURTH' AT OXFORD, among many others.

Reviews (1908) is a volume of critical and literary views and reviews of Oscar Wilde about various subjects and writers. These reviews, illustrating the middle period of the writer's maturing career, between the aesthetic period and the production of Lady Windermere's Fan, reveal his opinions...

Hunt the Devil is a timely and illuminating exploration of demonic imagery in US war culture. In it, authors Robert L. Ivie and Oscar Giner examine the origins of the Devil figure in the national psyche and review numerous examples from US history of the demonization of America’s perceived opponents....

“El fantasma de Canterville” es una de las historias más celebradas del aclamado Oscar Wilde, que forma parte ya de la lista de obras inolvidables y fundamentales de la literatura universal. Una extravagante y sofisticada familia norteamericana, los Otis, deciden adquirir el antiquísimo castillo...

En 1890, cuando ya goza de una brillante carrera como escritor, Oscar Wilde publica la primera parte de su ensayo El crítico como artista, que titula La importancia de no hacer nada. Con un lenguaje desenfadado y mordaz, propone que la labor del crítico es más meritoria que la del artista y aprovecha...

A nightingale overhears a student complaining that his professor's daughter will not dance with him, as he is unable to give her a red rose. The nightingale visits all the rose-trees in the garden, and one of the white roses tell her that there's a way to produce a red rose, but only if the nightingale...

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) is deservedly famous for the brilliant plays and other works he wrote for adults. But he also was a wonderful writer for children, the author of two charming volumes of fairy tales. In this captivating collection you will find every one of the nine sensitive, unforgettable...

He was a Grecian lad, who coming home With pulpy figs and wine from Sicily Stood at his galley’s prow, and let the foam Blow through his crisp brown curls unconsciously, And holding wave and wind in boy’s despite Peered from his dripping seat across the wet and stormy night.

«An iconic Irish writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was the multitalented person, whose personal style and wit earned him much fame during his lifetime and after death. The master of playwriting, verse, short stories and fairy tales, he had inspired countless fellow authors; his works were translated...

This book,contains now several HTML tables of contents The first table of contents lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC. This book contains the following works arranged...

LIBRO ILLUSTRATO contenente 20 tavole originali di Liana Zanfrisco. NUOVA TRADUZIONE - 2018 - di Rosa Elena Colombo. Il primo e unico romanzo di Oscar Wilde, qui riproposto nella più corposa versione del 1891, narra la storia del bellissimo Dorian Gray che, innamoratosi della propria bellezza così...

Gli aforismi esprimono al meglio l’estetica di Oscar Wilde, inseparabile dalla sua vita, difatti egli non solo predicò l’estetismo, ma volle vivere la propria vita come un’opera d’arte, affrontandone anche il lato più tragico. Inoltre il tentativo di conciliare l’impulso alla ribellione...

L'anima dell'uomo sotto il socialismo è un saggio dello scrittore irlandese Oscar Wilde, pubblicato nel 1891, nel quale viene esposta una visione del mondo libertaria esaltata dall’utopia socialista. Ne L'anima dell'uomo sotto il socialismo Wilde afferma che, sotto il capitalismo, “la maggioranza...