Plays, Prose Writings and Poems

Wilde, Oscar.

ISBN 10: 1857150422 / ISBN 13: 9781857150421

Editore: Everyman, 1991

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• Titolo: Plays, Prose Writings and Poems
• Editore: Everyman
• Data di pubblicazione: 1991
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1857150422
• ISBN 13: 9781857150421
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Edizione: New Ed.
• Condizione: Good

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Riassunto

Famoso per il suo arguto e bon viveur, oscar wilde è stato all'altezza della sua reputazione. Questa selezione di opere teatrali, poesie e scritti in prosa, introdotti da terry eagleton, include "the importance of being earnest", "lady windermere's fan", "the picture of dorian gray", "the critic as an artist", apologia", "the soul of a man under socialism", "letter to robert ross", "requiescat" e "the ballad of reading goal". Terry eagleton è autore di "criticism and ideology", "marxism and literary criticsm" e "literary theory: an introduction".

Informazioni sull?autore

Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin on 16 October 1854. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin and Magdalen College, Oxford. He later lived in London and married Constance Lloyd there in 1884. Wilde was a leader of the Aesthetic Movement. His only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, was first published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890. He published a revised and expanded edition in 1891 in response to negative reviews which criticised the book’s immorality. Wilde became famous through of the immense success of his plays such as Lady Windemere's Fan (1892), An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895).

In 1985, after a public scandal involving Wilde's relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas, he was sentenced to two years' hard labour in Reading Gaol for 'gross indecency'. His poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol was based on his experiences in prison and was published in 1898. After his release, Wilde never lived in England again and died in Paris on 30 November 1900. He is buried in Père Lachaise cemetery.