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Here are three of Oscar Wilde's classic fairy tales, including "The Happy Prince", "The Selfish Giant", and "The Nightingale and the Rose".

"The Happy Prince" In a town full of suffering poor people, a swallow who was left behind after his flock flew off to Egypt for the winter meets the statue of the late "Happy Prince", who in reality has never experienced true sorrow, for he lived in a palace where sorrow was not allowed to enter.

The story is about a family who moves to a castle haunted by the ghost of a dead nobleman, who killed his wife and was starved to death by his wife's brothers. The home of the Canterville Ghost was the ancient Canterville Chase, which has all the accoutrements of a traditional haunted house. Descriptions of the wainscoting, the library panelled in black oak, and the armour in the hallway characterise the setting. Wilde mixes the macabre with comedy, juxtaposing devices from traditional English ghost stories such as creaking floorboards, clanking chains, and ancient prophecies.

If we respond to suffering with love and acceptance instead of hate and bitterness, we will turn it to our benefit. Wilde teaches us the alchemy by which anguish can be transmuted into empathy and art. Today, with depression and despair afflicting so many - particularly creative and sensitive people - Wilde's reflections are more vital than ever.

The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on February 14, 1895, at the St James' Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious persona to escape burdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play's major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage and the resulting satire of Victorian ways.

A House of Pomegranates is a collection of fairy tales, written by Oscar Wilde, which was published in 1891 as a second collection for The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888). Wilde once said that this collection was "intended neither for the British child nor the British public."

This eerie collection includes: "The Doll's Ghost", "Thrawn Janet", "The Watcher", "The Old Nurse's Story", and "The Canterville Ghost".

The Picture of Dorian Gray is Oscar Wilde's only novel, perhaps because he realized that he could never again equal this timeless masterpiece. It is a unique work, both thought-provoking and horrifying. It vacillates between seemingly aimless conversation and riveting narrative in telling the story of a young man's quest for eternal youth and beauty, a quest that ends in scandal and depravity. It has been adapted numerous times for television, film, and the stage.

This novel is indeed a morality tale about the hazards of egotistical self-indulgence. Dorian Grey's pact with evil allows his portrait to take on his many sins and degradations while his physical appearance remains youthful. Over the years as he becomes cruel and vicious, even murderous, Dorian's young and perfect body is no longer enough to salvage his deteriorating mind and morality. Will justice and good prevail?

Keats. A short life but a legacy of works that few, if any, can rival. And of course his end was to be tragically Romantic. Keats was returning one night to his home in Hampstead when he coughed. He coughed a single drop of blue blood upon his hand and said, ‘I know the colour of that blood, it is arterial blood, it is my death warrant, I must die’. And so it was that tuberculosis took its slow, devastating hold.

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.

Basil Hallward pinta el retrato de Dorian Gray fascinado por su belleza. Este, influenciado por su amigo lord Henry Wotton, decide dedicarse a un mundo amoral y hedonista lleno de placeres y diversión. Mientras lleva este tipo de vida, Dorian mantiene toda su juventud y lozanía mientras que el retrato envejece, mostrando toda la crudeza de su nueva vida amoral y carente de escrúpulos.

Ready yourself for this carefully crafted collection of quotes from some of the greatest minds the world has ever seen! Featuring world-famous playwrights, philosophers, activists, Presidents and physicists, from Churchill and Shakespeare to Gandhi and Einstein, this is an entertaining and inspiring compilation covering everything from Ancient Rome to modern-day Britain.

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.

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.

600 Quotations from the Great Writers of the 20th Century features the wit and wisdom of some of the 20th Century’s greatest writers and minds. A cherry-picked selection, the collection includes quotes from the likes of famous Irish poet and playwright, Oscar Wilde, American-Lebanese writer and poet Khalil Gibran, Winston Churchill, Britain’s celebrated prime minister, and many more.

The Happy Prince and Other Tales (or Stories) is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde.

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