The Oscar Wilde Collection: A Selection of His Greatest Works: Slip-Case Edition von Wilde, Oscar

Das Gespenst von Canterville von Wilde, Oscar

"Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray" von Oscar Wilde ist ein klassischer Roman, der die Geschichte von Dorian Gray erzählt, einem jungen und schönen Mann im viktorianischen England. Als er von dem Künstler Basil Hallward porträtiert wird,...

The Annotated Importance of Being Earnest provides facing-page commentary on Oscar Wilde's greatest play. Editor Nicholas Frankel highlights the play's relation to the author's homosexuality and to the climate of sexual repression that...

All the people said that the Canterville Chase was hunted, but Mr. Otis, the American Ambassador, decided however to buy it because he did not mind about ghosts. When he arrived at the Chase with his whole family, the old housekeeper led...

Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin on 16 October 1854. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin and Magdalen College, Oxford. He later lived in London and married Constance Lloyd there in 1884. Wilde was a leader of the Aesthetic Movement. His...

Dorian Gray is having his picture painted by Basil Hallward, who is charmed by his looks. But when Sir Henry Wotton visits and seduces Dorian into the worship of youthful beauty with an intoxicating speech, Dorian makes a wish he will...

De Profundis von Wilde, Oscar

A unique selection which includes alongside The Canterville Ghost other three comic mysteries stories which will delight older kids.When the Americans Mr and Mrs Otis and their four children move into Canterville Chase, its previous...

The Importance of Being Earnest

Mit dem Kauf eines alten englischen Anwesens macht eine amerikanische Familie Bekanntschaft mit dem schrecklichen Hausgeist. Der Geist versucht die neuen Besitzer in Angst und Schrecken zu versetzen, doch die Amerikaner lassen sich nur...

Das London des späten neunzehnten Jahrhunderts: eine Stadt der Gegensätze. Großer Reichtum und schreckliche Armut, Schönheit und Hässlichkeit, Reinheit und Unmoral. Oscar Wilde nimmt den Leser mit in diese seltsame und faszinierende Welt...