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Oscar Wilde

12 Bücher

  • A Woman of No ImportanceHörbuch (2 Std.) English
    Wilde lets his idle aristocrats trade epigrams for two acts, and Lord Illingworth is horribly quotable, then the play turns serious when Mrs Arbuthnot's old secret surfaces. If you want pure froth you might resist the melodrama, but the wit alone earns the evening.
  • An Ideal HusbandHörbuch (3 Std.) English
    You get Wilde at his sharpest in the drawing-room sparring between Lord Goring and the dangerously composed Mrs Cheveley, while Sir Robert Chiltern’s spotless public image starts to crack. It’s funny, fast, and more forgiving about human weakness than its polished manners initially suggest.
  • Children’s Stories~3 Std. Lesezeit English
    Fair warning: these fairy tales will wreck you a little. The swallow staying with the Happy Prince through the frost, the giant's garden thawing when the children sneak back in, it's all gorgeous and melancholy at once, sadder and stranger than anything you'd actually read to a kid.
  • Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray~5 Std. Lesezeit
  • Het portret van Dorian Gray~4 Std. Lesezeit Nederlands
    Dorian Gray wenst dat zijn portret oud zou worden in plaats van hijzelf, en Lord Henry, die bijna alleen in epigrammen praat, laat hem maar al te graag zien wat dat zou kunnen betekenen. Het is het grootste deel van de tijd geestig en zwaar geparfumeerd, en wordt dan kil en beangstigend.
  • Il fantasma di Canterville e il delitto di Lord Savile~2 Std. Lesezeit Italiano
  • Lady Windermere’s FanHörbuch (2 Std.) English
    You can read it in an evening, and half the fun is watching Wilde hand every character a line too clever to waste. But Mrs. Erlynne sneaks up on you; under all the epigrams about cynics and gutters there's a real ache about who gets forgiven.
  • Le portrait de Dorian GrayHörbuch (9 Std.) Français
  • Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other StoriesHörbuch (4 Std.) English
    Wilde in a wicked mood: a man told by a palm reader he'll commit murder decides to get it over with before his wedding, and treats it like a chore. If you like your comedy dry and slightly heartless, the Canterville Ghost story alone earns the afternoon.
  • Poetry~3 Std. Lesezeit English
    Fair warning, the early poems are lush to the point of perfumed, all lilies and Greek statues, but stay for The Ballad of Reading Gaol, written after prison broke him. That one's stark and aching, and Requiescat, for his dead sister, might quietly wreck you.
  • The Importance of Being EarnestHörbuch (2 Std.) English
    You can read it in an afternoon and laugh out loud the whole way; Algernon inventing a sickly friend named Bunbury to dodge dinner parties, Lady Bracknell interrogating a suitor about his handbag. Nothing serious happens, which is exactly the point, and the wordplay still lands.
  • The Picture of Dorian GrayHörbuch (9 Std.) English
    Wilde gives every character his best one-liners, so you'll laugh even as the whole thing curdles into something genuinely creepy. Lord Henry's lazy, poisonous charm is the real draw; you'll catch yourself agreeing with him and then feeling slightly guilty about it.