Oscar Wilde

"The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays" brings together Oscar Wilde's most popular plays which first appeared between 1891 and 1895. Despite his relatively short theatrical career, Wilde's plays have enjoyed a sustained popularity. A classic satire of Victorian society, "The Importance of Being Earnest" is one of the author's most frequently performed works. The play trivializes its characters, who through a series of deceptions pretend...

Wilde es un fabulador fascinante, que posee el don de contar y de envolver al lector en sus atrayentes redes verbales. Su capacidad de invencion era prodigiosa, muy especialmente en los cuentos, que siempre los concibio como un genero con grandes posibilidades artisticas. En este volumen se recogen todos los textos de Wilde que hoy clasificamos como de caracter narrativo: Poemas en prosa, El principe feliz y otros cuentos, Una casa de granadas, El...

A notorious seductress enters a gossipy society and entices the husband of a faithful young woman, delighting the gossips and prompting a series of unexpected consequences.

Dorian Gray is an innocent young man who has his portrait painted by a close friend. Soon after he falls under the influence of amoral Lord Henry Wotton. Dorian soon jilts his fiancee, which leads to her suicide. This is the start of a life of increasing debauchery. Dorian realizes that the outward signs of this are apparent only in the portrait. Eventually the picture, secreted in his childhood playroom, becomes almost hideous to behold. But Dorian...