‘The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.’Is lying simply an uncomfort...
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful,...
Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life'The two works brought together here, 'The Decay of Lying' and 'The Critic as Artist', are Oscar Wilde's wittiest and most profound writ...
With warmth, tenderness and quiet wit, Oscar Wilde's fables and fairy tales have moved and delighted for generations. In far-off kingdoms and ocean realms, in the company of giants and nightingales...
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 ...
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 ...
Dorian Gray, niezwykłej urody młodzieniec, ulega namowom malarza Bazylego Hallwarda i zgadza się pozować mu do portretu. Po jego ukończeniu, zachwycony efektem chłopak niefrasobliwie wypowiada życz...
„Sfinks bez tajemnicy” to opowiadanie Oscara Wilde, słynnego irlandzkiego dramatopisarza, prozaika oraz poety czasu modernizmu.Bohater tego opowiadania to ...
A pleasant short story about Sir Arthur Savile, charming in her naivety and hypertrophied in her nobility. Ironic humor, a beautiful syllable, wise quotes, an English spirit and a non-standard pros...
Once they started a new interesting game in pseudonyms, which led to funny and curious consequences. Each time he came to London, he was convicted of only marrying a man named Ernest. Upon learning...
Le personnage principal – Arthur – un personnage tres contrasté. Des les premieres pages, il donne l’impression d’un jeune homme décent, beau et instruit. Cepe...
”A House of Pomegranates” is the second collection of fairy tales by the brilliant writer, master of European aesthetics Oscar Wilde, author of the novel „Portrait of Dorian Gray&...
Oscar Fingal O’ Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900) war ein irischer Schriftsteller. Bekannt ist Wilde neben seinen hervorragenden Werken auch für seinen schwarzen Humor, den er nie verlor...
Ceci est une collection des histoires d’Oscar Wilde. Dans la contribution principale «Critique en tant qu’artiste», nous organisons un dialogue en plusieurs actes entre deux...
Le roman „Le Portrait de Dorian Grayy” est le livre le plus abouti d’Oscar Wilde. Dans le premier chapitre, Gray est montré a un beau jeune homme dont la beauté ext&...
Possessing eternal youth and beauty produces exactly the same effect as sentencing a man to life without the possibility of parole. Both have nothing to lose and morals disappear before the desire ...
This is a collection of five short stories (The Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose, The Selfish Giant, The Devoted Friend, and The Remarkable Rocket), that are fairytales like moral fables,...
A family of flag-flaunting United States acquire an historic English mansion from the thoroughly prim, thoroughly British Lord Canterville. Throw in a murderous, aesthetically-minded ghost with a p...