{"title":"Books by Oscar Wilde","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"cuentos-de-oscar-wilde","title":"Cuentos de Oscar Wilde","description":"Product Description\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe stories gathered in this volume attest to the enormous genius of Oscar Wilde (Dublin, 1854 - Paris, 1900), one of the most fascinating and magnetic figures in English-language literature, a standard-bearer of dandyism, who devoted his life and work to a shared project whose highest aspiration was to cultivate beauty. Throughout his life he was a committed advocate of aestheticism, until his imprisonment, after being convicted of offending public morals, marked the home of his decline. A novelist, poet, literary critic, and playwright, Wilde owes much of his popularity to the only novel he wrote, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890).\u003cbr\u003eThis selection offers a fabulous overview of the Irish writer’s short-story production, almost all of it gathered in the three story collections he published during his lifetime: The Happy Prince and Other Tales, Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories, and A House of Pomegranates.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook Description\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA representative sample of the Irish writer’s enormous talent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Author\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA novelist, poet, literary critic, and playwright of Irish origin, a major exponent of aestheticism, Oscar Wilde found success from the outset thanks to the sharp, epigrammatic wit he lavished on his works, which were almost always devoted to castigating his contemporaries. A defender of art for art’s sake, his stories, full of lively dialogue and laden with irony, provoked fierce criticism from conservative sectors, which intensified when Wilde was accused and convicted because of his homosexuality, leading to the decline of his literary career and personal life. Among his works are the four stage comedies Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband (1895), and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), The Canterville Ghost, and The Picture of Dorian Gray, his only novel.","brand":"Austral","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55302209995096,"sku":"LIB-CU-AU-11","price":9.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8464\/0856\/files\/cuentos-de-oscar-wilde-8730425.jpg?v=1757469070"},{"product_id":"el-retrato-de-dorian-gray-edicion-sin-censura-86-literatura-reino-de-cordelia","title":"El retrato de Dorian Gray: Edición sin censura: 86 (Literatura Reino de Cordelia)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the spring of 1890, Oscar Wilde sent his first novel to Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine. Shocked by its content, the magazine's editor removed traces of the painter Basil Halleward's homosexuality towards Dorian Gray, along with other heterosexual behaviors that were very advanced for the time. Nearly five hundred words disappeared from the text: phrases, entire paragraphs… Wilde, fearful of the reaction from the moralistic Victorian society, further self-censored the book edition of the work, which appeared in 1891, adding more pages to clarify murky aspects and cutting out the homoerotic elements altogether. It was not until 2011 that the typescript of The Picture of Dorian Gray was found as originally conceived by its author, without censorship. Published in English by Harvard University Press, it is now offered for the first time in Spanish, meticulously translated by Victoria León.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Reino De Cordelia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57188886774104,"sku":"9788416968213","price":19.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8464\/0856\/files\/9788416968213.jpg?v=1777240671"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.plasticbooks.uk\/en\/collections\/libros-oscar-wilde.oembed","provider":"Plastic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}