In these delightful tales, Oscar Wilde employs all his grace, artistry and wit. The Happy Prince tells of the statue of a once pleasure-loving Prince which, with the help of a selfless Swallow helps p
【内容簡介】貴族少年道林‧格雷擁有俊俏的容貌和純潔的內心。因受到亨利勳爵教唆，他向好友霍爾渥德為他畫的肖像許願——希望以一己靈魂換取永恆的青春，讓畫像代替自己老去。願望荒唐至極，卻在一夜之間成真。道林自此逐漸迷失方向，終日沉醉於自己的美色，甚至做出喪盡天良的壞事。他走上歧途，不能自拔，直至徹底滅亡。【核心賣點】1 經典文學作品：作為奧斯卡‧王爾德的代表作之一，該小說享有廣泛的知名度和文學價值，吸引着文學愛好者的關注。2 唯美主義思想：小說展現了唯美主義運動的核心思想，追求美的追求和藝術的重要性，吸引著對藝術和美學有興趣的讀者。3 深刻的哲學探討：作品中提出的道德、個人選擇和責任等哲學問題引發了廣泛的討論，對於追求深度思考和心靈探索的讀者具有吸引力。4 人性的描繪：小說通過主角道林·格雷的內心變化和墮落，深入揭示了人性的複雜性和內心的黑暗面，引起讀者對人性和道德的思考。5 社會批判：作品中對上流社會的虛偽和道德腐敗進行了批判，呈現了當時社會現象，引起讀者對社會問題的關注和共鳴。6 精美的裝幀設計：本書以精裝發行，可作禮品書。采用精美的裝幀設計，包括高質量的紙張、精美的插圖和版式等，使得書籍本身成為一種藝術品。這種設計不僅能夠提升讀者的閱讀體驗，還能夠增加書籍的收藏價值。【一句話推薦】中英對照版《道林‧格雷的畫像》融合唯美主義與道德探索，雙語對照提升閱讀能力，經典之作不容錯過。名人推薦Wilde’s brilliantly allusive moral tale of youth, beauty and corruption was greeted with howls of protest on publication.Reread today, however, The Picture of Dorian Gray is a wonderfully entertaining parable of the aesthetic ideal (art for art’s sake), and a sneak preview of the brilliance exhibited in plays such as The Importance of Being Earnest and Lady Windermere’s Fan. What began as an outré
On its first publication The Picture of Dorian Gray was regarded as dangerously modern in its depiction of fin-de-siècle decadence. In this updated version of the Faust story, the tempter is Lord Henr
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautif
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young… If it was only
Oscar Wilde’s celebrated, scandalous, and only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, tells the story of the wealthy and handsome Londoner Dorian, whose obsession with his portrait leads him down a
With an Introduction and Notes by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London. Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, Lady Windermere's Fan. The combination of dazzling wit, subt
The Critic As Artist is one of Oscar Wilde's most well-known dialogues and, along with "The Decay of Lying," his best expression of his aesthetics.This major work is particularly interesting in the c
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also inc
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also inc
The richness of Oscar Wilde's way with words and ideas are given full range in this sparkling collection of short stories written between 1887 and 1891. There are ghost stories, moral tales, detective
Oscar Wilde's spooky tale of a genteel English ghost clashing with a brash American family is endearing, hilarious, and perfect reading for all ages Canterville Chase possesses all of the trappings of
The social comedies, Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Woman of No Importance, and An Ideal Husband offer a moving as well as witty dissection of society and its morals, with a sharp focus on sexual politics.
This exclusive edition contains Oscar Wilde's complete stories, plays and poems, together with their original illustrations. His novel, The Picture Of Dorian Gray, greeted on publication by a protest
The Picture of Dorian Gray is a familiar story of greed, sin, and arrogance. A young man, infatuated with his own handsomeness and youth as depicted in a perfect portrait, makes a bargain he will come
Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace, artistry
With an Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London. WILDE, GLAMOROUS AND NOTORIUS, more famous as a playwright or prisoner than as a poet, invites readers
With an Introduction and Notes by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London. De Profundis is Wilde's eloquent and bitter reproach from prison to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. He contrasts his
This Victorian comedy of manners sparkles with Wilde's trademark repartee, epigrams, and witty dialogue. Arch-moralist Lady Windermere, shattered by the suspicion of her husband’s infidelity, contempl
Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace, artistry
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
Born in Dublin in 1854, Oscar Wilde dazzled the salons of his day with supremely witty conversation and his ardent championship of a philosophy of aestheticism. As a writer, he produced The Importance
This volume contains everything Wilde wrote in dramatic formWilde's masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest is printed here in its usual three-act form, but with an appendix containing the best ma
Oscar Wilde was one of the most influential writers on art and design in the late 19th century. Alongside his acclaimed plays, novel and short stories, he wrote and lectured extensively on the subject
A collection of stories, including two of Wilde's most famous: 'The Canterville Ghost', in which a young American girl helps to free the tormented spirit that haunts an old English castle and 'The Hap
Between 1892 and 1895, Oscar Wilde's drawing-room comedies Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest made his name as a playwright who fearl
Works of Wilde's annus mirabilis of 1891 in one volume, with an introduction by renowned British playwright.The Soul of Man Under Socialism draw on works from a single miraculous year in which Oscar W
"The living always think that gold can make them happy." The Happy Prince and Other Stories brings together belovedchildren's stories by Oscar Wilde, including The Happy Prince, The Nightingale and th
The young, beautiful and highly susceptible Dorian Gray is pulled into the hedonistic haze of London’s high society, where he falls under the pernicious influence of Lord Henry Wotton. Oscar Wilde’s n
DescriptionBritish English/Classic Strange and wonderful things happen in t seven short stories. Oscar Wilde takes us into a world of kings and queens, mermaids and witches, giants and dwarfs, and tal
Packaged in handsome and affordable trade editions, Clydesdale Classics is a new series of essential literary works. From the musings of literary geniuses like Mark Twain in The Adventures of Hucklebe
Featured title in the 2018 PBS Great American ReadsIn the wealthy and vain hedonist Dorian Gray, London painter Basil Hallward has found his muse. Only when the portrait of Dorian begins to age, while
When the Americans Mr and Mrs Otis and their four children move into Canterville Chase, its previous occupant Lord Canterville warns them that the ghost of his ancestor still haunts the house. Their d
This classic novel about the frailty of human beauty and sensual experience and the futility of vanity remains as powerful today as when it was first published in 1891. A truly extraordinary piece of
Published in 1890, The Picture of Dorian Gray is Oscar Wilde’s only novel, and at first, it was considered too salacious to publish. In this story of greed, sin, and arrogance, a young, handsome man m
'It would be unfair to expect other people to be as remarkable as oneself'Wilde's celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous biographers, the stupidity of the English - and his own
The Selected Prose of Oscar WildeThe Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde contains passages from his short poems, essays, plays, and letters. There is a lot from de Profundis, which was written while Wilde w
The Importance of Being Earnest is one of the most enduringly popular of British comic dramas, and a mainstay of English literature and drama courses at college and university level. This is an ideal
Horror hides behind an attractive face in The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde's tale of a notorious Victorian libertine and his life of evil excesses. Though Dorian's hedonistic indulgences leave
