{"title":"Oscar Wilde","description":"\u003cp\u003eOscar Wilde — \u003cem\u003eThe Picture of Dorian Gray\u003c\/em\u003e, the plays, and the wit.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-importance-of-being-earnest","title":"The Importance of Being Earnest","description":"Here is Oscar Wilde's most brilliant tour de force, a witty and buoyant comedy of manners that has delighted millions in countless productions since its first performance in London's St. James' Theatre on February 14, 1895. The Importance of Being Earnest is celebrated not only for the lighthearted ingenuity of its plot, but for its inspired dialogue, rich with scintillating epigrams still savored by all who enjoy artful conversation. From the play's effervescent beginnings in Algernon Moncrieff's London flat to its hilarious denouement in the drawing room of Jack Worthing's country manor in Hertfordshire, this comic masterpiece keeps audiences breathlessly anticipating a new bon mot or a fresh twist of plot moment to moment.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"perpetual","offer_id":44456806449249,"sku":"9780486110189","price":0.5,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9869\/4241\/files\/480_94d96e83-6210-4063-a468-7d4a384d1ff3.jpg?v=1778565983"},{"product_id":"the-canterville-ghost-and-other-stories","title":"The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories","description":"Renowned for his poetry, plays, essays, and conversational skills, Oscar Wilde also wrote scintillating works of short fiction. This volume includes four fine examples, including The Canterville Ghost, the comical tale of a spirit who terrorized the residents of Canterville Chase for three centuries. When the manor is acquired by a no-nonsense American family with no use for the supernatural, hilarity ensues. Three other stories feature \"The Sphinx Without a Secret,\" a tale of an enigmatic woman who carries a mystery's key to her grave; \"The Model Millionaire,\" recounting the exploits of a \"delightful, ineffectual young man with a perfect profile and no profession\"; and \"Lord Arthur Savile's Crime,\" in which an aristocrat learns that he is destined to commit murder. Rounding out the volume are Wilde's lyrical Poems in Prose: \"The Artist,\" \"The Doer of Good,\" \"The Disciple,\" \"The Master,\" \"The House of Judgment,\" and \"The Teacher of Wisdom.\"","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"perpetual","offer_id":44456989687905,"sku":"9780486110813","price":0.5,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9869\/4241\/files\/480_b1602c27-50a1-42a0-aeb7-46b4393c2a99.jpg?v=1778566199"},{"product_id":"the-picture-of-dorian-gray","title":"The Picture of Dorian Gray","description":"In this celebrated work, his only novel, Wilde forged a devastating portrait of the effects of evil and debauchery on a young aesthete in late-19th-century England. Combining elements of the Gothic horror novel and decadent French fiction, the book centers on a striking premise: As Dorian Gray sinks into a life of crime and gross sensuality, his body retains perfect youth and vigor while his recently painted portrait grows day by day into a hideous record of evil, which he must keep hidden from the world. For over a century, this mesmerizing tale of horror and suspense has enjoyed wide popularity. It ranks as one of Wilde's most important creations and among the classic achievements of its kind.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"perpetual","offer_id":44458129031265,"sku":"9780486114736","price":0.5,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9869\/4241\/files\/480_f8c7fcbd-00dc-42c2-982c-d5024269475e.jpg?v=1778567555"},{"product_id":"the-complete-short-stories-of-oscar-wilde","title":"The Complete Short Stories of Oscar Wilde","description":"This comprehensive collection showcases Oscar Wilde's brilliant storytelling skills and his amazing stylistic versatility, ranging from fairy tales and ghost stories to detective yarns and comedies of manners. It includes the complete texts of \"The Happy Prince and Other Tales,\" \"A House of Pomegranates,\" \"Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories,\" \"Poems in Prose,\"and the critical essay \"The Portrait of Mr. W. H.\" Originally published in the late 1880s and early 1890s, these tales predate Wilde's fame as a dramatist. When he wrote them, he was best known among fashionable London society as a drawing-room raconteur. Many of the character types now familiar from his comedies first emerged in these stories, along with his gifted uses of parody, melodrama, paradox, and irony. Even more significantly, they reflect the author's preoccupation with opposites — idealistic love and desire, art and life, sincerity and artifice, innocence and sin, altruism and greed, and honesty and deceit — offering captivating expressions of the themes that dominated Wilde's life and thought.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"perpetual","offer_id":44458651910241,"sku":"9780486121864","price":3.5,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9869\/4241\/files\/480_c207147b-7927-4056-ab03-ff09316431cf.jpg?v=1778568156"},{"product_id":"an-ideal-husband","title":"An Ideal Husband","description":"Although Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) created a wide range of poetry, essays, and fairy tales (and one novel) in his brief, tragic life, he is perhaps best known as a dramatist. His witty, clever drama, populated by brilliant talkers skilled in the art of riposte and paradox, are still staples of the theatrical repertoire. An Ideal Husband revolves around a blackmail scheme that forces a married couple to reexamine their moral standards — providing, along the way, a wry commentary on the rarity of politicians who can claim to be ethically pure. A supporting cast of young lovers, society matrons, an overbearing father, and a formidable femme fatale continually exchange sparkling repartee, keeping the play moving at a lively pace. Like most of Wilde's plays, this scintillating drawing-room comedy is wise, well-constructed, and deeply satisfying. An instant success at its 1895 debut, the play continues to delight audiences over one hundred years later. An Ideal Husband is a must-read for Wilde fans, students of English literature, and anyone delighted by wit, urbanity, and timeless sophistication.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"perpetual","offer_id":44458720591969,"sku":"9780486131207","price":0.5,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9869\/4241\/files\/480_c658566a-b559-4243-a848-b7e14bd1e931.jpg?v=1778568273"},{"product_id":"salome","title":"Salomé","description":"Outraged by the sexual perversity of this one-act tragedy, Great Britain's Lord Chamberlain banned Salomé from the national stage. Symbolist poets and writers — Stéphane Mallarmé and Maurice Maeterlinck among them — defended the play's literary brilliance. Beyond its notoriety, the drama's haunting poetic imagery, biblical cadences, and febrile atmosphere have earned it a reputation as a masterpiece of the Aesthetic movement of fin de siècle England. Written originally in French in 1892, this sinister tale of a woman scorned and her vengeance was translated into English by Lord Alfred Douglas. The play inspired some of Aubrey Beardsley's finest illustrations, and an abridged version served as the text for Strauss' renowned opera of the same name. This volume reprints the complete text of the first English edition, published in 1894, and also includes \"A Note on Salomé\" by Robert Ross, Wilde's lifelong friend and literary executor. Students, lovers of literature and drama, and admirers of Oscar Wilde and his remarkable literary gifts will rejoice in this inexpensive edition.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"perpetual","offer_id":44459073929313,"sku":"9780486154343","price":0.5,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9869\/4241\/files\/480_0935554b-0588-4835-b422-e6ea8a5cbf36.jpg?v=1778568707"},{"product_id":"lady-windermeres-fan","title":"Lady Windermere's Fan","description":"Clever dialogue, fast-paced repartee, and pithy epigrams abound in this sparkling Victorian comedy of manners. The first of Oscar Wilde's dramas, the 1892 play attests to the author's legendary reputation as a wit and keen observer of ironic situations. In Lady Windermere's Fan, Wilde offers a splendidly satirical view of society's obsessive regard for appearances rather than reality. A paragon of morality, Lady Windermere firmly rejects the company of anyone exhibiting even the slightest deviation from the social code. Suspecting her husband of a dalliance with Mrs. Erlynne, a woman of dubious reputation, Lady Windermere rashly decides to abandon her secure position for the seductive charms of Lord Darlington. The voice of caution arises from an unexpected source when the mysterious Mrs. Erlynne reveals the calamitous effects of her own disregard for duty and virtue, and she augments her advice with an act of self-sacrifice. By laying claim to Lady Windermere's telltale fan, the woman from outside society shows the model of social propriety the difference between true morality and its semblance. More than a century after the play's debut, the luster of its humorous quips, merry bon mots, and thought-provoking paradoxes remains undimmed. This modestly priced edition of Wilde's scintillating comic masterpiece will delight lovers of drama and literature.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"perpetual","offer_id":44459320508513,"sku":"9780486159621","price":0.5,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9869\/4241\/files\/480_25a20b79-4520-4955-aa71-8ed81fa07b7c.jpg?v=1778569002"},{"product_id":"oscar-wilde-the-dover-reader","title":"Oscar Wilde The Dover Reader","description":"\"An excellent collection of some of Oscar Wilde's key works. A useful and representative selection of his writings, ideal for those not already familiar with his trademark wit or his more serious work, but equally valuable for the Wilde devotee.\" — newbooks magazine Poet and playwright Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) wrote sparkling comedies that were the toast of London's West End in the 1890s. The master of the witty epigram who could resist anything except temptation, Wilde was imprisoned by an unjust society and died in obscurity, but his enduring works continue to enchant readers and audiences. The Irish author's only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, appears in this splendid showcase of his philosophy and wit. Additional selections include Wilde's ever-popular comedies The Importance of Being Earnest and An Ideal Husband; his essay on aestheticism, \"The Decay of Lying: An Observation\"; his deeply moving prison letter, \"De Profundis\"; and fairy tales from A House of Pomegranates and The Happy Prince.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"perpetual","offer_id":44459663786081,"sku":"9780486801919","price":2.25,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9869\/4241\/files\/480_01064cba-d894-4cab-a25a-cb1a381d7b2a.jpg?v=1778569455"}],"url":"https:\/\/ebooks.aafaqeducation.com\/collections\/oscar-wilde.oembed","provider":"ebook.aafaqeducation","version":"1.0","type":"link"}