The Collected Supernatural & Weird Fiction of Oscar Wilde-Includes the Novel 'The Picture of Dorian Gray, ' 'Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, ' 'The Canter: Supernatural Fiction
Autor Oscar Wildeen Limba Engleză Hardback – 20 sep 2009
Oscar Wilde genius as a playwright, author and poet is well known and highly regarded. The quality of his work has ensured that it has often been adapted for the cinema screen and the first chilling novel in this special Leonaur collection of Wilde's immaculate forays into the bizarre, haunting and peculiar is no exception. 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' tells of a dissolute young man who is cursed as his physical self is separated from his soul with horrific consequences, creating an essential and timeless story of horror. Those who wish to enhance their enjoyment of that story will be pleased to learn that several other classic tales of earth bound spirits, hidden guilt, murder and psychic powers populate this volumes pages-each one beautifully and satisfyingly crafted by this most accomplished of writers. This collection is completed by a sequence of weird shorter pieces often described as 'fairy stories.' These tales of a decidedly adult nature are fabulous excursions into the fantastical which combine to make this book the ideal way for readers to enjoy all of Wilde's strange fiction in one collectable volume. Available in soft cover and also as a quality, cloth bound hardback, with head bands, a gold foil embossed spine and full colour dustwrapper-a credit to your bookcase.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781846778520
ISBN-10: 1846778522
Pagini: 420
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.67 kg
Editura: Leonaur Ltd
Seria Supernatural Fiction
ISBN-10: 1846778522
Pagini: 420
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.67 kg
Editura: Leonaur Ltd
Seria Supernatural Fiction
Notă biografică
OSCAR WILDE (1854-1900) was a celebrated Irish-born playwright, short story writer, poet, and personality in Victorian London. He is best known for his involvement in the aesthetic movement and his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, as well as his many plays, such as Lady Windermere's Fan, The Importance of Being Earnest, A Woman of No Importance, and An Ideal Husband. During his imprisonment for gross indecency, he wrote De Profundis and The Ballad of Reading Gaol.