Oscar Wilde is a great English writer, a brilliant stylist, an inimitable wit, an extraordinary personality of his time. A man whose name, through the efforts of enemies and gossip-hungry mobs, became a symbol of depravity, but over time gained immortal fame. This edition contains works that reflect various facets of the writer’s artistic world: the famous novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” which upon its publication gained scandalous fame and was subsequently recognized as a masterpiece of European aestheticism; all of Wilde’s stories, short stories and fairy tales (among them “The Canterville Ghost”, “The Crime of Lord Arthur Savile”, “The Happy Prince”, “The Nightingale and the Rose” and others); plays full of refined, laconic symbolism; the famous prison confession “De profundis”; essays from the series “Plans”, which are a detailed aesthetic program of the writer and can serve as a kind of auto-commentary to his works of art; as well as two famous poems - “The Sphinx” and “The Ballad of Reading Gaol” in translations by Nikolai Gumilyov and Konstantin Balmont.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Translation: Dmitry Agrachev, Nina Daruzes, Yuliy Kagarlitsky, Nikolai Gumilev, Konstantin Balmont
Pages: 928 (offset). Hardcover
Dimensions: 217x150x41 mm
Series: Foreign literature. Big books
