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The Complete Fairy Tales

Arnaldo Ageno — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 14:45:17 +0000

A complete collection of enchanting fairy tales from the acclaimed poet and playwright Oscar Wilde
Celebrated as the writer of The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde is equally beloved for his fairy tales, written ‘partly for children and partly for those who have kept the childlike faculties of wonder and joy’. With warmth, tenderness and quiet wit, these fables have moved and delighted for generations. In far-off kingdoms and ocean realms, in the company of giants and nightingales, Wilde speaks of heartbreak and redemption, of cruelty and compassion, of love lost, of love gained, of love everlasting.

Rediscover here the complete stories from The Happy Prince and The House of Pomegranates, Wilde’s two fairy tale collections.

The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

Arnaldo Ageno — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 13:33:17 +0000

A universal favorite, The Importance of Being Earnest displays Oscar Wilde s wit and theatrical genius at their brilliant best.

Subtitled A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, this hilarious attack on Victorian manners and morals turns a pompous world on its head, lets duplicity lead to happiness, and makes riposte the highest form of art. Written, according to Wilde, by a butterfly for butterflies, it is a dazzling masterpiece of comic entertainment.

Although it was originally written in four acts, The Importance of Being Earnest is usually performed in a three-act version. This authoritative edition features an appendix that restores valuable lines that appeared in the original.

Also included in this special collection are Wilde s first comedy success, Lady Windermere s Fan, and his richly sensual melodrama, Salomé, which he called that terrible coloured little tragedy I once in some strange mood wrote and which shocked and enraged the censors of his time.

Includes an Introduction by Sylvan Barnet and an Afterword by Elise Bruhl and Michael Gamer

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Arnaldo Ageno — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 16:00:48 +0000

‘How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young… If it was only the other way!’ Wilde’s first and only published novel recounts the story of handsome Dorian Gray who upon having his portrait painted desires that it will age and grow ugly while he may remain eternally beautiful.

The painting, which reflects each of Gray’s sins and transgressions in its hideousness, haunts him until it finally becomes unbearable. In this dark tale of duplicity and mortality, Wilde creates a world where art and reality collide.