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Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence. The novel was a succès de scandale, and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895. It has lost none of its power to fascinate and disturb.

The story of The Happy Prince has three major themes. Firstly it shows that apparent beauty is nothing and the real beauty is to bestow love and sacrifice. Secondly, it discusses that love and sacrifice are two saving forces. Thirdly, it shows that there is a large gap between rich and poor people the rulers and the masses. When the happy prince is alive he lives a happy life without sorrows, he is living a care free life but after his death he sees through a tall Colum that life has another view except happiness and that is helplessness poverty, hypocrisy and corruption of elite and ruling class.

En primavera de 1890 Oscar Wilde envió su primera novela al Lippincot's Monthly Magazine. Escandalizado por su contenido, el director de la revista eliminó las huellas de homosexualidad del pintor Basil Halleward hacia Dorian Gray, junto a otras conductas heterosexuales muy avanzadas para la época. Casi quinientas palabras desaparecieron del texto: frases, párrafos enteros…

In The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde weaves a gothic tale of vanity, moral corruption, and the pursuit of eternal youth. Dorian Gray, a young man of extraordinary beauty, makes a dark pact that allows him to remain forever young while a hidden portrait ages and bears the weight of his sins. As Dorian’s outward appearance remains perfect, the portrait becomes a grotesque reflection of his inner decay.

Oscar Wilde was an Irish writer who made up special stories for children filled with sweetness and tenderness, as well as lessons about life. Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author and poet best remembered for his fairy tales with lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity. In this pairing of classics, Dudley Moore reads "The Happy Prince"— Oscar Wilde's tale of charity and loyalty—and David Dukes reads Hans Christian Andersen's "The Steadfast Tin Soldier," a fable about a toy soldier's love for a paper ballerina.

Klaus Kinski ist heute vielen Menschen in erster Linie als Filmstar ein Begriff. Doch er war längst berühmt bevor er seine erste Kinohauptrolle spielte. Vor einem begeisterten Millionenpublikum rezitierte er Weltliteratur und in nur vier Jahren, zwischen 1959 und 1962, nahm er insgesamt 32 Sprechplatten auf. Trotz seiner rekordverdächtigen Produktionsleitung war seine Textauswahl immer messerscharf. Die vorliegenden Sprachaufnahmen von Der glückliche Prinz und Der junge König von Oscar Wilde sind Glanzlichter der Weltliteratur in grandiosem Vortrag.

Le Portrait de Dorian Gray est un roman gothique qui plonge le lecteur dans un univers sombre et fascinant. Au cœur de l'intrigue, nous retrouvons Dorian Gray, un jeune homme d'une beauté saisissante, qui fait l'objet d'une admiration sans borne. Lors d'une soirée, un peintre, Basil Hallward, réalise son portrait, une œuvre d'art qui capture toute la jeunesse et l'innocence de Dorian.

Selección de cuentos cortos clásicos de la literatura universal pensada para todo público.

Una sofisticada familia norteamericana, los Otis, compra el añejo castillo inglés de los Canterville. El anciano dueño les habla entonces de que en la mansión habita desde tiempos inmemoriales el colérico fantasma de Lord Simon Canterville, que mató a su esposa y cuyo cuerpo desapareció después misteriosamente.

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.

Narra la historia de un enano regalo de cumpleaños de la infanta, explorando temas de belleza, crueldad y soledad mientras el enano se enfrenta a su trágico destino.

El Retrato de Mister W. H. de Oscar Wilde es una novela que explora los misteriosos orígenes de los sonetos de Shakespeare. La historia sigue a un joven llamado Cyril Graham, que se obsesiona con descubrir la identidad del Sr. W. H., el misterioso dedicado a los sonetos de Shakespeare. Graham cree que el señor W. H. era un joven llamado Willie Hughes, a quien Shakespeare inmortalizó en su poesía. A medida que Graham profundiza en el misterio, se ve envuelto en una red de especulaciones, conspiraciones y deseos.

El Príncipe Feliz de Oscar Wilde es una historia conmovedora que se desarrolla en una ciudad ficticia. La historia gira en torno a una estatua dorada de un príncipe adornada con joyas y que domina la ciudad. A pesar de su opulento exterior, el príncipe está entristecido por la pobreza y el sufrimiento que observa debajo. Con la ayuda de una golondrina de buen corazón, el príncipe sacrifica desinteresadamente su riqueza y comodidad para aliviar la difícil situación de los empobrecidos residentes de la ciudad. A través de actos de caridad y compasión, el príncipe aprende el verdadero significado de la felicidad y el altruismo.

Familiarícese con los escritores más importantes del siglo XX a través de una cuidadosa selección de 600 citas que introducen sus principales ideas y delinean la estructura de su trabajo con claridad. Descubra nuevos aspectos o profundice en los pensamientos de Ana Frank, Antoine de Saint Exupéry, Khalil Gibran, Oscar Wilde, Stefan Zweig, Winston Churchill, para expandir su mente y conocimiento sobre nuestra cultura.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. In this volume we come up against the definition of Northern Europe. There are many, each with plausibility and each so obvious. So, here’s ours.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that are difficult to achieve elsewhere. The City of Lights may be one of the glories of the world but for those whose three score and ten have passed it is the final resting place for some of the very finest of literary talents.

The Irish Classics Collection is a wide-ranging collection of 9 classic works of fiction and poetry by Irish authors, read by an award-winning cast of narrators. Included here are stories by some of the greatest writers of all time, including James Joyce; Bram Stoker; Oscar Wilde; W.B. Yeats; Elizabeth Bowen; and more.

Our quoted authority is not the people in white coats but those with a quill, a heart and a soul that can take these feelings of love and loss and with the ink of words put to verse feelings and emotions that can be re-lived and shared by all. As they venture through depression, war, slavery to heartache and the loss of loved ones our eyes may mist and tears gently fall at what collectively we have done, have experienced, have witnessed and lost.

In this collection of short stories some of our most popular and well-known authors are grouped together with an unfortunate tag: dead at 46. These authors are not run-of-the-mill or ten a penny; many are literary leviathans who left enduring works of literature and sadly may have left us many more had they lived. We will never know.

The Irish Short Story tradition is packed with literary leviathans who take the raw ingredients of the land, it’s people and their own talents to create quite dazzling narratives in these perfectly pitched short stories. Genius has many names.