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Cuentos de Oscar Wilde (Universales)
Los relatos reunidos en este volumen dan cuenta del enorme genio de Oscar Wilde (Dublín, 1854 - París, 1900), una de las figuras más fascinantes y magnéticas de las letras en lengua inglesa, estandarte del dandismo, que consagró vida y obra a un proyecto común cuya máxima aspiración fue cultivar la belleza. Durante toda su vida fue un convencido militante del esteticismo, hasta que su ingreso en prisión, condenado por atentar contra la moral pública, marcó el inicio de su declive. Novelista, poeta, crítico literario y dramaturgo, Wilde debe en buena medida su popularidad a la única novela que escribió, El retrato de Dorian Gray (1890).
La presente selección constituye una panorámica fabulosa de la producción del escritor irlandés en el ámbito del cuento, reunida casi toda en los tres libros de relatos que publicó en El príncipe feliz y otros cuentos, El crimen de lord Arthur Savile y otras historias y Una casa de granadas.
La presente selección constituye una panorámica fabulosa de la producción del escritor irlandés en el ámbito del cuento, reunida casi toda en los tres libros de relatos que publicó en El príncipe feliz y otros cuentos, El crimen de lord Arthur Savile y otras historias y Una casa de granadas.
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Published March 17, 2021
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Oscar Wilde
5,616 books39.1k followersOscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his criminal conviction for gross indecency for homosexual acts.
Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. In his youth, Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, he read Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Magdalen College, Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles.
Wilde tried his hand at various literary activities: he wrote a play, published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on "The English Renaissance" in art and interior decoration, and then returned to London where he lectured on his American travels and wrote reviews for various periodicals. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversational skill, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day. At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into what would be his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). Wilde returned to drama, writing Salome (1891) in French while in Paris, but it was refused a licence for England due to an absolute prohibition on the portrayal of Biblical subjects on the English stage. Undiscouraged, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late-Victorian London.
At the height of his fame and success, while An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) were still being performed in London, Wilde issued a civil writ against John Sholto Douglas, the 9th Marquess of Queensberry for criminal libel. The Marquess was the father of Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. The libel hearings unearthed evidence that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own arrest and criminal prosecution for gross indecency with other males. The jury was unable to reach a verdict and so a retrial was ordered. In the second trial Wilde was convicted and sentenced to two years' hard labour, the maximum penalty, and was jailed from 1895 to 1897. During his last year in prison he wrote De Profundis (published posthumously in abridged form in 1905), a long letter that discusses his spiritual journey through his trials and is a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure. On the day of his release, he caught the overnight steamer to France, never to return to Britain or Ireland. In France and Italy, he wrote his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life.
Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. In his youth, Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, he read Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Magdalen College, Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles.
Wilde tried his hand at various literary activities: he wrote a play, published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on "The English Renaissance" in art and interior decoration, and then returned to London where he lectured on his American travels and wrote reviews for various periodicals. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversational skill, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day. At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into what would be his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). Wilde returned to drama, writing Salome (1891) in French while in Paris, but it was refused a licence for England due to an absolute prohibition on the portrayal of Biblical subjects on the English stage. Undiscouraged, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late-Victorian London.
At the height of his fame and success, while An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) were still being performed in London, Wilde issued a civil writ against John Sholto Douglas, the 9th Marquess of Queensberry for criminal libel. The Marquess was the father of Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. The libel hearings unearthed evidence that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own arrest and criminal prosecution for gross indecency with other males. The jury was unable to reach a verdict and so a retrial was ordered. In the second trial Wilde was convicted and sentenced to two years' hard labour, the maximum penalty, and was jailed from 1895 to 1897. During his last year in prison he wrote De Profundis (published posthumously in abridged form in 1905), a long letter that discusses his spiritual journey through his trials and is a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure. On the day of his release, he caught the overnight steamer to France, never to return to Britain or Ireland. In France and Italy, he wrote his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life.
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August 25, 2021
Esta obra es una interesante recopilación de pequeñas historias que permite adentrarse, un poco más, en los mundos de Wilde y, por ende, en la propia mente del autor.
Es curioso, ya hablando de la forma de escritura del propio autor, cómo en algunas ocasiones se extiende bastante en la narración de un cuento, pero decide escribir el desenlace en un par de líneas; como si lo acabara con prisa.
En definitiva, es una recopilación recomendable para todo aquel que quiera adentrarse un poco más en la literatura del escritor irlandés.
Es curioso, ya hablando de la forma de escritura del propio autor, cómo en algunas ocasiones se extiende bastante en la narración de un cuento, pero decide escribir el desenlace en un par de líneas; como si lo acabara con prisa.
En definitiva, es una recopilación recomendable para todo aquel que quiera adentrarse un poco más en la literatura del escritor irlandés.
August 7, 2025
En este compilado de cuentos cortos, le damos la bienvenida a los mejores cuentos del autor. Oscar (tenía) la facilidad de presentar en una trama simple, conceptos y emociones complejas. Ahí es donde reside la magia de su escritura.
Mi favorito hoy y siempre será: el príncipe feliz. ¿Por qué? Realmente no hay porqué, ¿O sí? 😋. En esta historia tenemos como protagonistas a una estatua de un príncipe y una paloma. A medida que el tiempo avanza, el príncipe es testigo de las más crueles desdichas y decide, para ayudar a quienes más lo necesitam, desprenderse de sus accesorios (todas las joyas que tiene en su estatua, e incluso la lámina de oro que lo recubre)
Oscar Wilde siempre me pareció un personaje histórico fascinante, más aún sabiendo lo que sufrió y cómo terminó su vida. Tuvo todo para ser un villano y decidió no ceder, respetó sus valores y creencias hasta el final y nunca dejó de ser una buena persona. Eso es lo que hizo excelente a todas sus obras.
Recomiendo leer este libro porque es super corto y tienen un pantallazo general de como escribía el autor 💖
Mi favorito hoy y siempre será: el príncipe feliz. ¿Por qué? Realmente no hay porqué, ¿O sí? 😋. En esta historia tenemos como protagonistas a una estatua de un príncipe y una paloma. A medida que el tiempo avanza, el príncipe es testigo de las más crueles desdichas y decide, para ayudar a quienes más lo necesitam, desprenderse de sus accesorios (todas las joyas que tiene en su estatua, e incluso la lámina de oro que lo recubre)
Oscar Wilde siempre me pareció un personaje histórico fascinante, más aún sabiendo lo que sufrió y cómo terminó su vida. Tuvo todo para ser un villano y decidió no ceder, respetó sus valores y creencias hasta el final y nunca dejó de ser una buena persona. Eso es lo que hizo excelente a todas sus obras.
Recomiendo leer este libro porque es super corto y tienen un pantallazo general de como escribía el autor 💖
June 28, 2025
Me he reencontrado con todos aquellos cuentos que escuchaba de boca de mi madre o mi abuela antes de dormir: El ruiseñor y la rosa, el gigante egoísta, El príncipe feliz... No os podéis imagina la cantidad de veces que, cuando yo pude yo sola, los leía una y otra vez. ¡Y resulta que estaban aquí todos juntitos! Es un auténtico placer haber vuelto a mis orígenes como lectora, y los sentimientos que me han dejado cada uno de los cuentos son formidables. Os lo recomiendo a todo el mundo.
January 29, 2026
Fábulas moralizantes, algunas resultan un poco obvias. Pero transmiten mucho. Importancia de la belleza.
El gigante egoísta, El crimen de lord Arthur Savile y La esfinge sin secreto, los que más me han gustado.
El gigante egoísta, El crimen de lord Arthur Savile y La esfinge sin secreto, los que más me han gustado.
April 30, 2024
Un buen ejemplo del ingenio y belleza de las palabras e historias de Oscar Wilde!!
August 12, 2025
los cuentos de Oscar Wilde son la cosa más maravillosa y plena de su literatura, con Dorian grey aún que lo intente leer lo posponi , pienso leerlo, aseguro , lmao
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