The Star-Child is the story of an abandoned infant boy found in the woods by a poor woodcutter, who pities him and takes him in. He grows up to be exceedingly beautiful, but vain,...

The Star-Child is the story of an abandoned infant boy found in the woods by a poor woodcutter, who pities him and takes him in. He grows up to be exceedingly beautiful, but vain,...

Oscar Wilde's is most famous for his satirical plays which he wrote at the time of great literary enlightenment, when all Britons were able to embrace literature previously only...

Arthur Savile è un placido esponente dell'alta borghesia della Londra ottocentesca. Il suo unico desiderio è quello di sposare la sua fidanzata e cammina a testa...

Oltre ai romanzi, oltre agli aforismi, oltre agli scandali che ne segnarono la vita e ne indirizzarono la produzione artistica, Wilde fu anche un eccellente scrittore di fiabe. In...

"The Canterville Ghost" is a short story by Oscar Wilde.The story is about a family who moves to a castle haunted by the ghost of a dead nobleman, who killed his wife...

The Ballad of Reading Gaol was written in exile in France. The poem narrates the execution of Wooldridge; it moves from an objective story-telling to symbolic identification with...

A House of Pomegranates is a collection of fairy tales, written by Oscar Wilde.

An amusing chronicle of the tribulations of the Ghost of Canterville Chase when his ancestral halls became the home of the American Minister to the Court of St. James.

The Rise of Historical Criticism(1908), is a mature essay by Oscar Wilde, evaluating the history and current state of criticism. The writer goes back in history and tries to...