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I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me...Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day - mock me horribly!' A story of evil, debauchery, and scandal, Oscar Wilde's only novel tells of Dorian Gray, a beautiful yet corrupt man. When he wishes that a perfect portrait of himself would bear the signs of ageing in his place, the picture becomes his hideous secret, as it follows Dorian's own downward spiral into cruelty and depravity. "The Picture of Dorian Gray" is a masterpiece of the evil in men's hearts, and is as controversial and alluring as Wilde himself. This is the Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

Do you believe in ghosts? Well, the Otis family didn’t until they met the Canterville Ghost. This is a story of life and death and love … of a ghost trapped in the present because of the bad thing he did in the past and how a young girl helps him to move on. Tags The Supernatural | Human values In this Reader you will find: Games and language activities | An audio recording of the story | A picture dictionary Syllabus Vocabulary areas Time, family and friends, the home, weather Grammar and structures Present, present continuous, past Verb + infinitive Adverbs Descriptive adjectives Prepositions of place

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.' Including some of Oscar Wilde's most well-known and infamous plays, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and The Importance of Being Earnest, this collection of the infamous writer's works displays his brilliant, quick wit to its full glory. Wilde's pithy social comedies dissect the morals and idiosyncrasies of society in the 1890s and offer a view of the sexual politics of the time.

Kedves olvasónk Oscar Wilde, a századforduló nagy ír?angol írójának hat varázslatos novelláját kapja kézhez ebben a kötetben. Ezek közül az elso négy (Az ifjú király, Az infánsno születésnapja, A halászlegény és a lelke, A csillagok fia) mese, a szó klasszikus értelmében, Wilde az egzotikumhoz, a Kelethez, az allegóriához való vonzódásának bájos és érto kézzel megrajzolt gyönyöru lenyomata. A W. H. arcképe izgalmas irodalmi nyomozásba enged bepillantást, amely talán megoldja Shakespeare szonettjeinek legnagyobb rejtélyét. A záró Savile Arthur lord bune pedig immár a Wilde-tól megszokott humoros, csipkelodo szatíra az angol arisztokráciáról: fohose olyan komolyan veszi a tenyerébol megjósolt gyilkosságot, hogy puszta kötelességtudatból igyekszik azt elkövetni.

A századvég híres és hírhedt angol írójának 1890-ben jelent meg a már saját korában nagy karriert befutott regénye. A címszereplo Dorian feltuno, különleges szépsége elbuvöli festobarátját, Basil Hallward-ot, aki az ifjú portréjával a buntelen, tiszta naivitásnak állít muvészi emléket. A színen feltunik Lord Henry Wotton is, aki meggyozi a festo modelljét, hogy ifjonti szépsége a legfontosabb erénye. Mikor Dorian ráébred arra, hogy fiatalsága nem tart örökké, kijelenti, hogy bármit megadna, ha maga helyett festett arcképe öregedne. Ebben a fausti pillanatban kívánsága teljesül. Ezután semmi nem áll az útjába, hogy hedonista, kicsapongó, nagyvilági életet. Mindig friss és üde, ártatlan ábrázata a leggyanúsabb pletykák ellen is kituno pajzs, a csábítás pompás fegyvere. Saját éteri szépsége elvarázsolja, nárcizmusán azonban fölülemelkedik az arckép változása miatt elo-elotöro aggodalma. A festményrol tulajdon romló lelke néz vele farkasszemet? Wilde egyetlen regénye az angol irodalom alapmuve, korának botrányirodalma. A fantasztikumba hajló történet egyértelmu célja kora társadalmának bírálata. Görbe tükröt állít egy olyan berendezkedésnek, melyben elvakítanak a külsoségek, melyben a felszínes szépség az élet értelme, tartalma pedig az élvezetek hajszolása.

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 the other way!'Wilde's first and only published novel recounts the story of handsome Dorian Gray who upon having his portrait painted desires that it will age and grow ugly while he may remain eternally beautiful. The painting, which reflects each of Gray's sins and transgressions in its hideousness, haunts him until it finally becomes unbearable. In this dark tale of duplicity and mortality, Wilde creates a world where art and reality collide.

Audiobook Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories written by Oscar Wilde. A palmist’s prediction leads to murder; an enigmatic woman’s lifestyle is a mystery to be solved; a ghost tries to frighten the new tenants of his home; a man has discovered the dedicatee of Shakespeare’s Sonnets; a millionaire wants to be painted as a pauper. Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories is a collection of fascinating short stories which are subversive as well as entertaining.

A good portrait is a portrait of the artist, not the sitter. I am afraid I show my soul in this painting.’ Tag Fantasy In this Reader you will find: - Information about Oscar Wilde’s life - Sections focusing on background and context - Glossary of difficult words - Comprehension activities - PET-style activities - Exit test Late nineteenth-century London: a city of contrasts. Great wealth and terrible poverty, beauty and ugliness, purity and immorality. Oscar Wilde takes the reader into this strange and fascinating world through the strange story of the picture of Dorian Gray. Young, handsome and innocent, the aristocratic Dorian is visiting his friend, the kind and gentle painter Basil Hallward, when he meets Lord Henry Wotton. Entertaining and cynical, Lord Henry introduces Dorian to the idea of a world where the only value is beauty, and everything must serve this ideal. But how can Dorian survive ageing and ugliness? In front of his beautiful portrait, painted by Hallward, Dorian makes a terrible wish. This wish will come true, dragging Dorian into a world of the senses, of beauty and joy, but also of terror, of fear and ultimately of murder… Syllabus Present Simple + Passive, Present Continuous, Past Simple + Passive, Past Continuous, Present Perfect, Verb + ing, Ask someone to + inf, Make someone + base form of verb, To look + adj, To look like + noun, To be like + noun, Imperatives (+ negative), Can for ability and permission, Could for requests and ability, Must for obligation and logical deduction Will for future prediction and decisions made at time of speaking, 0 conditional, 1 conditional, There is/are (+ past forms), Adjectives + comparatives + superlatives, Adverbs

A terrifying ghost is haunting the ancient mansion of Canterville Chase, complete with creaking floorboards, clanking chains and gruesome disguises – but the new occupants seem strangely undisturbed by his presence. Deftly contrasting the conventional gothic ghost story with the pragmatism of the modern world, Wilde creates a gently comic fable of the conflict between old and new.

The master of wit and irony Published here alongside their evocative original illustrations, these fairy tales, as Oscar Wilde himself explained, were written "partly for children, and partly for those who have kept the childlike faculties of wonder and joy."

Vyhrají intriky a korupce nad čestnými postoji? I takové otázky klade konverzační komedie, která s neodolatelným kritickým humorem líčí londýnské vyšší kruhy z doby, kdy se zde pohyboval i slavný a provokativní autor Oscar Wilde.

De Profundis

'A triumph of execution ... one of the best narratives of the "double life" of a Victorian gentleman' Peter Ackroyd Oscar Wilde's alluring novel of decadence and sin was a succés de scandale on publication. It follows Dorian Gray who, enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, 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 depravity. This definitive edition includes a selection of contemporary reviews condemning the novel's immorality. Edited with an Introduction and notes by ROBERT MIGHALL

Právě těchto devět pohádek vyneslo mistra duchaplné konverzace Oscara Wilda rovnou do literárního nebe. Jsou to jedny z nejúchvatnějších pohádkových příběhů, které kdy byly napsány. Vaše děti v nich možná nenajdou černobílý svět dobra a zla, o to více se ale zamyslí nad tím, že v životě nejsou hodní všichni, kdo se tak tváří, a naopak. Autorův mimořádně čtivý a zároveň neobyčejně myšlenkově bohatý Šťastný princ by neměl chybět ani v knihovnách dospělých čtenářů, kteří si ho už dávno oblíbili. V příbězích se odráží Wildova posedlost krásou a touhou po světě, ve kterém se k sobě lidé chovají slušně a s respektem. Pohádky nemají vždycky šťastný konec, ten ale někdy chybí i v příbězích našich životů. Geniální spisovatel v této knize ze všech sil touží najít pravdu, která je, jak sám říkal, „málokdy čistá a nikdy ne jednoduchá“.

Literární záhada všech dob konečně vyřešena! Známý spisovatel Oscar Wilde objevil a se svou obvyklou bravurou literárně zpracoval převratnou teorii o tom, kdo byl oním tajemným panem W. H., kterému největší básník a dramatik všech dob William Shakespeare věnoval své úchvatné Sonety. Tato sličná novela se čte jako detektivka a potěší jak literární znalce, tak i milovníky rébusů a šarád.