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A House of Pomegranates A House of Pomegranates Oscar Wilde Collection of Wilde Short stories, written before his plays, and well before the trial. H. L. Mencken essay praises Wilde's art, damns his lack of honor and arrogance that let to his trial and his ru… OL14877134W
Das Gespenst von Canterville. Das Gespenst von Canterville. Oscar Wilde Die amerikanische Familie Otis kauft Schloss Canterville, obwohl man sie ausdrücklich warnt, dass dort der Ahnherr, Sir Simon de Canterville, als Gespenst sein Unwesen treibt. Als Sir Simon seiner Ge… OL14877203W
El fantasma de Canterville El fantasma de Canterville Oscar Wilde See work: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14877871W OL14877250W
Plays Plays Oscar Wilde This Penguin collection contains Oscar Wilde's five wittiest and best known plays. He himself described **Lady Windermere's Fan** his first great stage success, as 'one of those modern drawing-room p… OL14877406W
Nothing...Except My Genius Nothing...Except My Genius Oscar Wilde I have nothing to declare', Wilde once told an American customs official, 'except my genius'. A socialite, a wit, a man who flaunted convention and was unafraid to shock, Oscar Wilde was a great writ… OL14877473W
Stories for young people Stories for young people Oscar Wilde A simplified retelling of five stories by the Irish author, Oscar Wilde. OL14877632W
The ballad of Reading Gaol and other poems The ballad of Reading Gaol and other poems Oscar Wilde This poem - originally published anonymously, written after Wilde's two year's hard labour in Reading prison - is the tale of a man who has been sentenced to hang for the murder of the woman he loved… OL14877694W
The Canterville Ghost The Canterville Ghost Oscar Wilde,Gaia Ierace When the American Otis family move to their new house in England, interesting things begin to happen - especially when they meet Mr Ghost! This beautifully illustrated adapted version of Oscar Wilde… OL14877698W
Stories for children Stories for children Oscar Wilde Presents Wilde's well-known Selfish Giant, Nightingale and the Rose, Devoted Friend, Happy Prince, Remarkable Rocket, and Young King. OL14877843W
The birthday of the infanta The birthday of the infanta Oscar Wilde A grotesque dwarf falls in love with the beautiful Infanta. OL14877845W
Lord Arthur Savile's crime Lord Arthur Savile's crime Oscar Wilde It was Lady Windermere's last reception before Easter, and Bentinck House was even more crowded than usual. Six Cabinet Ministers had come on from the Speaker's Levee in their stars and ribands, all… OL14877863W
Short stories Short stories Oscar Wilde Nine tales include "The Remarkable Rocket," "The Nightingale and the Rose," and "The Selfish Giant." OL14877865W
A House of Pomegranates A House of Pomegranates Oscar Wilde **A House of Pomegranates** is a collection of fairy tales, written by Oscar Wilde, that was published in 1891 as a second collection for The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888). Wilde once said that… OL14877868W
A Woman of No Importance A Woman of No Importance Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde's audacious drama of social scandal centres around the revelation of Mrs Arbuthnot's long-concealed secret. A house party is in full swing at Lady Hunstanton's country home, when it is an… OL14877870W
The selfish giant The selfish giant Oscar Wilde This magnificent new edition of Oscar Wilde's beloved tale tells the story of the selfish giant who built a wall around his beautiful garden to keep children out. It was always winter in the garden, … OL14877873W
An Ideal Husband An Ideal Husband Oscar Wilde An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedic stage play by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honour. The action is set in Lo… OL14877875W
Poems Poems Oscar Wilde From the book:Not that I love thy children, whose dull eyesSee nothing save their own unlovely woe,Whose minds know nothing, nothing care to know, -But that the roar of thy Democracies,Thy reigns of … OL14877876W
The Canterville Ghost, The Happy Prince and Other Stories The Canterville Ghost, The Happy Prince and Other Stories Oscar Wilde A collection of stories, including two of Wilde's most famous: 'The Canterville Ghost', in which a young American girl helps to free the tormented spirit that haunts an old English castle and 'The Ha… OL15173424W
Great Short Stories of the World Great Short Stories of the World Максим Горький,Colette,Frank O'Connor,Max Aub,Henry Lawson,Albert Camus,Corrado Alvaro,Robert Benchley,H. G. Wells,Isak Dinesen,Ernest Hemingway,Nigel Balchin,Sholem Aleichem,Katherine Anne Porter,Santha Rama Rau,Rabindranath Tagore,Mark Twain,Dorothy Parker,Leo Kennedy,Joseph Conrad,Антон Павлович Чехов,Dorothy L. Sayers,Aldous Huxley,David Herbert Lawrence,Graham Greene,Nadine Gordimer,Oscar Wilde,James Thurber,Alberto Moravia,O. Henry,Rumer Godden,John O'Hara,Truman Capote,Stephen Crane,John Steinbeck,Gabrielle Roy,Unknown,Sally Benson,John Updike,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Doris Lessing,Wallace Stegner,Guy de Maupassat,James Joyce,Luigi Pirandello,Eudora Welty,William Somerset Maugham,Mikhail Zoshchenko,The Editors of The Reader's Digest,Hernando Tellez,Pearl S. Buck,Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes,Ring Lardner,Shirley Jackson,Montague Rhodes James,Paul Horgan,Saki,Thomas Head Raddall,Katherine Mansfield,Bertolt Brecht,Josh Gregory,Irwin Shaw,Marcel Aymé,Jean Stafford,Lilika Nakos,S. J. Perelman,Damon Runyon,Anatole France,Machado de Assis,Jessamyn West,Hjalmar Söderberg The leader of the people / John Steinbeck Mr. Know-all / W. Somerset Maugham Vanka / Anton Chekhov The happy prince / Oscar Wilde The old demon / Pearl S. Buck The sailor-boy's tale / Isak … OL16048288W
Great Classic Stories II Great Classic Stories II W. S. Gilbert,Mark Twain,Virginia Woolf,Антон Павлович Чехов,Aldous Huxley,David Herbert Lawrence,Edith Wharton,Oscar Wilde,Harriet Beecher Stowe,Nathaniel Hawthorne,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Edgar Allan Poe,Guy de Maupassant,James Joyce,Kate Chopin,Saki,Katherine Mansfield,Susan Glaspell [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W/Young_Goodman_Brown) / by Nathaniel Hawthorne, narrated by John Chancer -- The cask of Amontillado / by Edgar Allan Poe, narrated by Rob… OL17399881W
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