A haunting, magical fairy-tale collection, in
which Oscar Wilde beautifully evokes (among others) The Happy Prince who
was not so happy after all, The Selfish Giant who learned to love
little children and The Star Child who did not love his parents as much
as he should. Each of the stories s..
The Importance of Being Earnest is a three-act comedy of manners. The
fun begins precisely at the beginning of the play when Jack pays his
friend Algernon a visit at his London flat but it barely ends at its
ending at Jack s place at Hertfordshire. It is, indeed, the best
dramatic example of..
Written in his
distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde’s story of a fashionable
young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the
author’s most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray’s moral
disintegration caused a scandal when it first appeared in 1890, but
though Wilde wa..