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Un giovane studente sta cercando una rosa rossa da regalare alla sua amata ma, ahimè, non riesce a trovarla in nessun modo. Un piccolo e gentile usignolo, emozionato dalla sua storia, decide di aiutarlo, ma anche la sua ricerca è infruttuosa. È ormai inverno e le rose sono tutte sbiadite a causa del freddo intenso.

Una favola senza tempo che ancora oggi incanta per bellezza e freschezza. Scopri la storia del Principe Felice, un'antica statua che domina la città e che ormai la conosce alla perfezione: gioie, dolori, piccoli e grandi segreti.

Als der amerikanische Gesandte in England, Hiram B. Otis, feststellt, dass in seinem neuen Domizil ein Geist umgeht, dauert es nicht lange, bis die gesamte Familie hinter ihm her ist. Nur des Gesandten junge Tochter hat Mitleid mit dem Gespenst und möchte ihm helfen... Ein Märchen-Klassiker von Oscar Wilde: lustig, romantisch, ironisch - und immer höchst unterhaltsam.

Il Gigante Egoista rientra finalmente a casa ma ad attenderlo c'è una sorpresa: il suo amato giardino è diventato il parco giochi preferito di tanti bambini. A quella vista il Gigante va su tutte le furie, scaccia gli odiati bambini e fa costruire un muro perché non entrino mai più. Il suo comportamento sciocco e malvagio però fa scattare l'inverno.

Two very short stories from the master of the witty turn of phrase and of narrative.

In De Profundis, Oscar Wilde, in a lengthy letter to his former lover, reflects on suffering, forgiveness, and redemption. As a confessional text, it ranks with the Confessions of Saint Augustine as an examination of the nature of penitence, its origin and transformative effect. T. W. H. Crosland (1865-1924), a social commentator, was extremely moralistic. Among his targets was Oscar Wilde, whose contrition, as expressed in De Profundis, he believed to be an elaborate and convenient sham.

Oscar Wilde created his final and most lasting play, one of the comic masterpieces of all time, The Importance of Being Earnest, in 1895. It is a farce playing with love, religion, and truth as it tells the tale of two men, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, who bend the truth in order to add excitement to their lives. Jack invents an imaginary brother, Ernest, whom he uses as an excuse to escape from his dull country home and gallivant in town.

"The Happy Prince and Other Tales" (sometimes called The Happy Prince and Other Stories) is a collection of stories for children first published in May 1888. It contains five stories, "The Happy Prince", "The Nightingale and the Rose", "The Selfish Giant", "The Devoted Friend", and "The Remarkable Rocket". It is most famous for its title story, "The Happy Prince". Oscar Wilde (1854 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet.

A classic comedy by the great Oscar Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest is his short farce consisting of numerous noms de plume, a case of mistaken identity, an identity left in a case by mistake, and the mistake of revealing ones identity in the presence of a previous employer, which may result post-script in a case for Scotland Yard. Or to put much more simply, of Jack and his attempts to woo Gwendolyn, his would-be bride... even if she does seem to think his name is Earnest.

Between 1895 and 1897 Oscar Wilde served a prison sentence for offences "of gross indecency". Most of this time was spent at Reading Gaol, where Wilde encountered another prisoner, Harles Thomas Wooldridge, sentenced to death for the murder of his wife. Wooldrige was hanged at the gaol on 7th July, 1896. Wilde wrote the poem in France in 1897 after his release from prison. The poem is a long reflection on the inequity and ineffectiveness of statutory punishment and the redeeming power of the Christian message of forgiveness.

This is a selection of works by three famous Irishmen: Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats and Bram Stoker. It includes: the short story by Bram Stoker, "Dracula's Guest"; Oscar Wilde's poem "Humanitad" and three versions of his "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"; and finally, an early collection of poetry called The Rose by W. B. Yeats. There is a general introduction by the writer and actor Tim Dalgleish and other additional material.

Something was dead in each of us,
And what was dead was Hope. In this moving poetic study of his experiences in the Victorian penal system, Wilde relates the relentlessness and tedium of prison life, and of the haunted thoughts which trouble these "souls in agony" within their "numbered tombs". Oscar Wilde wrote "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" after his two-year imprisonment at the establishment. During his incarceration, a former trooper was convicted of the murder of his wife and hanged at the Gaol. This event is central to the poem's narrative.

This collection contains Oscar Wilde's four best-known comedies: The Importance of Being Earnest; Lady Windermere's Fan; An Ideal Husband; and A Woman of No Importance. All of them satirize upper-class English society of the 1890s, dramatizing scandalous secrets, political and marital intrigue, and dandyish bad behavior with Wilde's trademark wit and wisdom.

《快乐王子》讲述了生前不知忧愁为何物的快乐王子死后目睹种种人世间的苦难，和燕子牺牲自我帮助他人的故事。…… 《快樂王子》講述了生前不知憂愁為何物的快樂王子死後目睹種種人世間的苦難，和燕子犧牲自我幫助他人的故事。

《王尔德童话》包含了爱尔兰文学天才奥斯卡·王尔德所写的最有代表性的童话作品，听他的童话，犹如在聆听琅琅上口的叙述，韵律无穷。…… 《王爾德童話》包含了愛爾蘭文學天才奧斯卡·王爾德所寫的最有代表性的童話作品，聽他的童話，猶如在聆聽琅琅上口的敘述，韻律無窮。

Oscar Wildes eneste roman om den unge Dorian, der indgår en pagt om evig ungdom mod, at hans portræt ældes i stedet for ham selv. En af verdenslitteraturens klassikere. "Billedet af Dorian Gray" er en roman om skønhedens forgængelighed, om ønsket om evig ungdom - og om hvad et sådant ønske kan føre med sig. Af lykke og ulykke.

An original recording of one of Oscar Wilde's comedic classics and a precise satire of Britain's upper classes. At a gathering at Hunstanton Chase, the young Gerald Arbuthnot has been given a rare opportunity to make something of himself by the cavalier Lord Illingworth, but a chance meeting between his mother Mrs. Arbuthnot and Lord Illingworth reveals that there's more behind the offer than Gerald knows.

Hier versammeln sich Geister jeder Art: geheimnisvolle Erscheinungen, furchteinflößende Gespenster, aber auch mitleiderregende Überbleibsel vergangener Zeiten. So erzählt Edgar Allan Poe gruselig von den unheimlichen Ereignissen im "Hause Usher". Ein mysteriöser "Horla" treibt Guy de Maupassants Protagonisten in den Wahnsinn. Ludwig Bechstein berichtet vom "Fliegenden Holländer", dessen Geisterschiff zum ewigen Umherirren auf den Meeren verdammt ist.

Here are legendary director, producer, screenwriter, author, and actor Orson Welles' historic interpretations of excerpts from classic literature. Includes selections from Oscar Wilde's "The Happy Prince', H.G. Wells' "The Red Room", Saki's "Shredni Vashtar", Joseph Conrad's "The Secret Sharer", Rudyard Kipling's "Riki-Tikii-Tavi", Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Wakefield", Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell Tale Heart", and Robert Louis Stevenson's "Letter to the Reverend Dr. Hyde".

The classic haunting tale by Oscar Wilde, "The Canterville Ghost" is the story of an American family moving in to the ancient Canterville Chase in England, which has all the accoutrements of the traditional English haunted house! Lord Simon Canterville, the resident denizen of the afterlife, haunts the halls of this hallowed home with all the superiority his ghostly skills have afforded him lo these past centuries. That is, of course, until the Otis family, from America, move in and give him a devil of a time!