Oscar: 1500 books

With an Introduction and Notes by John M.L. Drew, University of Buckingham. Wilde's only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art, life, and consequence. From its...

The first version of The Picture of Dorian Gray was published as the lead story in the July 1890 edition of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, along with five others. The story begins with a man painting a picture of Gray. When Gray, who has a "face like ivory and rose leaves" sees his finished...

A magnificent piece of literary work! The language is exquisite: beautiful metaphors, excellent sentences and brilliant dialogues. The characters are built with very realistic and deep psychological understanding.What happens in this book? Dorian has a painting made of him. His psyche spirals downward but is manifest by the deterioration of the painting, apparently not him.

Classic / British English The famous Canterville Ghost haunts an old house, but the ghost becomes unhappy when the new owners play tricks on him!   In the other stories, we meet Lord Arthur Savile, who has to murder someone before he can get married, and we discover the secret life of beautiful Lady Alroy.

Este é mais um volume da bestseller Coleção Melhores Contos, uma seleção de obras primas de autores de diversas nacionalidades e com temáticas das mais variadas, mas que tem em comum uma enorme e talvez a mais importante qualidade literária: a de dar prazer ao leitor. Neste ebook você terá...

Um clássico da literatura que reúne histórias fantásticas e sobrenaturais que apaixonam leitores de todas as idades. O Fantasma dos Canterville é uma história divertida onde o grande escritor de língua inglesa parodia as velhas lendas de fantasmas ao mesmo tempo que leva o leitor a refletir sobre...

C’était la dernière réception de lady Windermere, avant le printemps. Bentinck House était, plus que d’habitude, encombré d’une foule de visiteurs. Six membres du cabinet étaient venus directement après l’audience du speaker, avec tous leurs crachats et leurs grands cordons. Toutes...

CONTENIDO: Cuentos de horror [Ambrose Bierce] El monte de las ánimas [Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer] El Horror de Dunwich [Howard Phillips Lovecraft] La Llamada de Cthulhu [Howard Phillips Lovecraft] El Horla [Guy de Maupassant] Relatos escogidos II [Edgar Allan Poe] Berenice [Edgar Allan Poe] Relatos...

Publiés en 1904, quatre ans après la mort de leur auteur, ces aphorismes sont l'exact reflet de la pensée et de l'esprit de Wilde. Feu d'artifice de mots d'esprit, ils disent tous les paradoxes d'un écrivain qui n'a rien perdu de son caractère scandaleux.

In this celebrated work, his only novel, Wilde forged a devastating portrait of the effects of evil and debauchery on a young aesthete in late-19th-century England. Combining elements of the Gothic horror novel and decadent French fiction, the book centers on a striking premise: As Dorian Gray sinks...

ACTE I Le salon de l’appartement d’Algernon, dans Half-Moon Street. La pièce est meublée luxueusement, avec goût. On entend le son d’un piano dans la pièce voisine. Lane sert le thé ; la musique s’interrompt, Algernon entre. Algernon....

Edition enrichie (Introduction, notes, dossier sur l'oeuvre et bibliographie) «Au centre de la pièce, fixé à un chevalet droit, se dressait le portrait en pied d'un jeune homme d'une extraordinaire beauté physique, devant lequel, à peu de distance, se tenait assis le peintre lui-même,...

Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique. Ce livre comporte plusieurs contes, voici les contes : Le fantôme de Canterville 5 L’ami dévoué 72 Le Prince Heureux 98 Le rossignol et la rose 123 Le géant égoïste 138 Extrait: Lorsque M. Hiram B. Otis, le...