Oscar Wilde

The Canterville ghost. 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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Alpha Editions
• Seitenzahl: 138
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 184g
• ISBN-13: 9789353971854
• ISBN-10: 9353971853
• Artikelnr.: 58593462

Autorenporträt

Oscar Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for "gross indecency", imprisonment, and early death at age 46. Wilde's parents were successful Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. Their son became fluent in French and German early in life. At university, Wilde read Greats; he proved himself to be an outstanding classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Oxford. He became known for his involvement in the rising 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.