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The Importance of Being Earnest (+ Audio CD)
Автор: Oscar Wilde Жанр: CIDEB Издательство: CIDEB Год: 2008 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 22 марта 20112011-02-19
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Acknowledged as Wilde's most perfect comedy, brilliant and subversive, The Importance of Being Earnest has even been considered to anticipate the 'drama of the absurd' of the twentieth century. Guided activities and introduction help the student to appreciate this masterpiece.
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Oscar Wilde: The Complete Works
Автор: Oscar Wilde Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2011 Страниц: 584 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20142013-10-27
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Playwright, novelist, essayist, poet and epigrammatist, Oscar Wilde was Ireland's greatest and most inspired wit. Today he is remembered for the brilliance of his writing, and this complete edition of his works contains all his plays, his only novel, The Portrait of Dorian Gray, as well as his essays, poems and stories for children, The Happy Prince and Other Tales, and his more worldly stories for adults, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories. Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley, illustrator, caricaturist, poster-designer and novelist, and Charles Robinson, one of the most popular black-and-white artists of the Edwardian era.
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Lady Windermere's Fan
Автор: Oscar Wilde Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 80 Дата загрузки: 14 февраля 20132016-08-17
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Beautiful, aristocratic, an adored wife and young mother, Lady Windermere is 'a fascinating puritan' whose severe moral code leads her to the brink of social suicide. The only one who can save her is the mysterious Mrs Erlynne whose scandalous relationship with Lord Windermere has prompted her fatal impulse. And Mrs Erlynne has a secret — a secret Lady windermere must never know if she is to retain her peace of mind.
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The Happy Prince and Other Stories
Автор: Oscar Wilde Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20112012-02-29
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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 shines with poetry and magic and will be enjoyed by children of every age. This is a perfect collection for children young and old, introduced by Markus Zusak, bestselling author of «The Book Thief».
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The Importance of Being Earnest: Reader and CD: Upper Intermediate Level (+ Audio CD)
Автор: Oscar Wilde Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 21 августа 20122011-06-21
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One of a graded series of retold versions of popular classic and contemporary titles and specially written stories, The Importance of Being Earnest is Oscar Wilde's comic masterpiece of love and mistaken identity. It first appeared on the stage in 1895 and has been hugely popular ever since.
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The Importance of Being Earnest (+ Audio CD)
Автор: Oscar Wilde Жанр: Pearson Издательство: Pearson Год: 2011 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20132012-12-07
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Gwendolen thinks that she loves Ernest. Cecily thinks that she loves Ernest too. But who is Ernest really? What kind of man is he? Read this funny play and laugh. Or act it to your friends and they will laugh. This is a wonderful play by one of the greatest writers of his time.
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Complete Poetry
Автор: Oscar Wilde Жанр: Oxford University Press Издательство: Oxford University Press Год: 2009 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 22 марта 20122012-02-19
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'Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!' A powerful poem of universal guilt and a protest against capital punishment, The Ballad of Reading Gaol is Wilde's best-known poem, yet it is quite unlike the rest of his poetry. At Oxford Wilde discarded the passion and politics of his mother's Irish nationalistic anti-famine poetry and opted to follow an English Romantic tradition, paying tribute to Keats, Swinburne, and the Pre-Raphaelites. Admiration of French masters gradually led to his writing Impressionist, even decadent poems and his collection Poems (1881) brought accusations of obscenity and plagiarism as well as scathing reviews. Unabashed, Wilde revised and reprinted his final 'Author's Edition' in 1892, by which time he was the successful author of fiction, criticism, and Lady Windermere's Fan. This volume follows as closely as possible the chronological order of composition, highlighting autobiographical elements including the young Wilde's conflicting attitudes to Greece and Rome, pagan and Christian, and his fluctuating attraction to Roman Catholicism. The Appendix shows Wilde's original ordering, constructed with great care around a 'musical' arrangement of themes. The poems reveal unexpected aspects of a literary chameleon usually identified with sparkling wit and social comedy.
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Oxford Bookworms Library 2: The Canterville Ghost
Автор: Oscar Wilde Жанр: Oxford University Press Издательство: Oxford University Press Год: 2007 Страниц: 64 Дата загрузки: 10 октрября 20102010-09-27
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Help your students read their way to better English with this new edition of the world's best graded readers — now with a new range of World Stories, fully revised Factfiles, more audio, and new tests. The new edition includes the original Bookworms stories, plus the Starters, Playscripts and Factfiles, making it easy for you to see the full choice of books at each Stage. The highly acclaimed seven-stage system of grading, from Starter to Stage 6, remains the same, helping you to find the right level for all your students. There has been a ghost in the house for three hundred years, and Lord Canterville's family have had enough of it. So Lord Canterville sells his grand old house to an American family. Mr Hiram B. Otis is happy to buy the house and the ghost — because of course Americans don't believe in ghosts. The Canterville ghost has great plans to frighten the life out of the Otis family. But Americans don't frighten easily — especially not two noisy little boys — and the poor ghost has a few surprises waiting for him.
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Oxford Bookworms Library 3: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Автор: Oscar Wilde Жанр: Oxford University Press Издательство: Oxford University Press Год: 2007 Страниц: 80 Дата загрузки: 14 февраля 20092010-09-17
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The Oxford Bookworms Library provides superb reading and student / teacher support for the classroom, and is also highly recommended for schools running Extensive Reading Programmes, offering the right range of books that encourage students to read for pleasure. 'When we are happy, we are always good', says Lord Henry, 'but when we are good, we are not always happy'. Lord Henry's lazy, clever words lead the young Dorian Gray into a world where it is better to be beautiful than to be good; a world where anything can be forgiven — even murder — if it can make people laugh at a dinner party.
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An Ideal Husband
Автор: Oscar Wilde Жанр: Pearson Издательство: Pearson Год: 2008 Страниц: 72 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20102011-04-17
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Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful politician and an honest man. He is an ideal husband for the beautiful and serious Lady Chiltern. But somebody knows a dangerous secret about Sir Robert. Can Sir Robert's charming Society friends save his job and his marriage? This Penguin Reader play is written for acting making English come alive.
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Penguin Readers 4: The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories
Автор: Oscar Wilde Жанр: Pearson Издательство: Pearson Год: 2008 Страниц: 80 Дата загрузки: 14 февраля 20102013-08-17
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The famous Canterville Ghost haunts an old house, but the ghost becomes unhappy when the new owners play tricks on him! In the other stories, we meet Lord Arthur Savile, who has to murder someone before he can get married, and we discover the secret life of beautiful Lady Alroy.
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Penguin Readers 4: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Автор: Oscar Wilde Жанр: Pearson Издательство: Pearson Год: 2008 Страниц: 88 Дата загрузки: 18 марта 20112012-03-29
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An artist paints a picture of the young and handsome Dorian Gray. When he sees it, Dorian makes a wish that changes his life. As he grows older, his face stays young and handsome. But the picture changes. Why can’t Dorian show it to anybody? What is its terrible secret?
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The Collected Poems of Oscar Wilde
Автор: Oscar Wilde Жанр: Wordsworth Издательство: Wordsworth Год: 2000 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 07 апреля 20092002-07-28
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Wilde, glamorous and notorious, more famous as a playwright or prisoner than as a poet, invites readers of his verse to meet an unknown and intimate figure. The poetry of his formative years includes the haunting elegy to his young sister and the grieving lyric at the death of his father. The religious drama of his romance with Rome is captured here, as well as its resolution in his renewed love of ancient Greece. He explores forbidden sexual desires, pays homage to the great theatre stars and poets of his day, observes cityscapes with impressionist intensity. His final masterpiece, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, tells the painful story of his own prison experience and calls for universal compassion. This edition of Wilde's verse presents the full range of his achievement as a poet.
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The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde
Автор: Oscar Wilde Жанр: Wordsworth Издательство: Wordsworth Год: 1998 Страниц: 1104 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20092001-04-15
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Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace, artistry and wit, of which the best-known is «The Happy Prince». Counterpoints to this were his novel «The Picture of Dorian Gray», which shocked and outraged many readers of his day, and his stories for adults which exhibited his fascination with the relations between serene art and decadent life. Wilde took London by storm with his plays, particularly his masterpiece «The Importance of Being Earnest». His essays — in particular «De Profundis» — and his «Ballad of Reading Gaol», both written after his release from prison, strikingly break the bounds of his usual expressive range. His other essays and poems are all included in this comprehensive collection of the works of one of the most exciting writers of the late nineteenth century.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Автор: Oscar Wilde Жанр: Wordsworth Издательство: Wordsworth Год: 1992 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 03 августа 20091993-12-26
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Wilde's only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art, life, and consequence. From its provocative Preface, challenging the reader to believe in 'art for art's sake', to its sensational conclusion, the story self-consciously experiments with the notion of sin as an element of design. Yet Wilde himself underestimated the consequences of his experiment, and its capacity to outrage the Victorian establishment. Its words returned to haunt him in his court appearances in 1895, and he later recalled the 'note of doom' which runs like 'a purple thread' through its carefully crafted prose.
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The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories (+ Audio CD)
Автор: Oscar Wilde Жанр: Pearson Издательство: Pearson Год: 2008 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20102009-12-07
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The famous Canterville Ghost haunts an old house, but the ghost becomes unhappy when the new owners play tricks on him! In the other stories, we meet Lord Arthur Savile, who has to murder someone before he can get married, and we discover the secret life of beautiful Lady Alroy.
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Plays, Prose Writings and Poems
Автор: Oscar Wilde Жанр: Классическая зарубежная поэзия Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1991 Страниц: 720 Дата загрузки: 27 сентября 20091992-12-16
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Oscar Wilde has been acknowledged as the wittiest writer in the English language. This collection proves that he was also one of the most versatile. Effortlessly achieved, each revealing a different aspect of his brilliance, all of the plays, prose writings, and poems gathered here support Wilde’s belief that entertainment provides the best kind of edification. The works gathered here include Wilde’s once-controversial and now classic novel, «The Picture of Dorian Gray», the rioutously (sic) comic plays “The Importance of Being Earnest” and “Lady Windermere’s Fan”, and the famous poem he wrote after being released from prison, “The Ballad of Reading Gaol”. This expanded new edition now includes the complete version of Wilde’s moving letter from prison, De Profundis, and his teasing parable about Shakespeare, The Portrait of Mr. W. H. Other notable included writings are the semi-comic mystery story “Lord Arthur’s Savile’s Crime” and the essay «The Soul of Man Under Socialism».
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The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories Reader
Автор: Oscar Wilde Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2008 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20102009-12-07
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Three short stories by one of the most witty and popular writers of the nineteenth century. Stories include: The Canterville Ghost, The Model Millionaire and Lord Arthur Savile's Crime.
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The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
Автор: Oscar Wilde Жанр: Oxford University Press Издательство: Oxford University Press Год: 2008 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20122009-06-21
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Oscar Wilde was already one of the best known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance of the 1890s and retain their power today. The social comedies, «Lady Windermere's Fan», «A Woman of No Importance», and «An Ideal Husband», offer a moving as well as witty dissection of society and its morals, with a sharp focus on sexual politics. By contrast, the experimental, symbolist Salome, written originally in French, was banned for public performance by the English censor. His final dramatic triumph was his `trivial' comedy for serious people, «The Importance of Being Earnest» arguably the greatest farcical comedy in English. Under the General Editorship of Dr Michael Cordner of the University of York, the texts of the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation. In addition, there is a scholarly introduction and detailed annotation.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Автор: Oscar Wilde Жанр: Oxford University Press Издательство: Oxford University Press Год: 2008 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 28 июля 20092009-12-07
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'The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.' When Dorian Gray has his portrait painted, he is captivated by his own beauty. Tempted by his world-weary, decadent friend Lord Henry Wotton, he wishes to stay forever young, and pledges his very soul to keep his good looks. Set in fin-de-siécle London, the novel traces a path from the studio of painter Basil Hallward to the opium dens of the East End. As Dorian's slide into crime and cruelty progresses he stays magically youthful, while his beautiful portrait changes, revealing the hideous corruption of moral decay. Ever since its first publication in 1890 Wilde's only novel has remained the subject of critical controversy. Acclaimed by some as an instructive moral tale, it has been denounced by others for its implicit immorality. Combining elements of the supernatural, aestheticism, and the Gothic, «The Picture of Dorian Gray» is an unclassifiable and uniquely unsettling work of fiction.
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