Oscar Wilde

La importancia de llamarse Ernesto (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Dos excelentes amigos, Algernon Moncrieff y Jack Worthing, tratan de conquistar a Cecilia Cardew y a Gwendolen Fairfax, respectivamente, a quienes el nombre de «Ernesto» seduce arrebatadamente. Para conseguir lo anterior, ambos jóvenes han asegurado, falsamente, llamarse «Ernesto». Jack, tutor de Cecilia, ha hecho creer a ésta que él tiene un hermano menor llamado «Ernesto», el cual es un «calavera». Las historias que Jack le cuenta a Cecilia del supuesto hermano hacen que ésta se enamore del inexistente «Ernesto» y quiera conocerlo. Por su parte, Algernon, valiendose de argucias, llega a la casa de campo de Jack para conocer a Cecilia y se enamora de ella. Cecilia y Gwendolen piensan que están enamoradas del mismo «Ernesto», pues Gwendolen no sabe que el verdadero nombre de su «Ernesto» es Jack. Finalmente, este último confiesa la verdad y las parejas encuentran la felicidad a pesar de los engaños.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oscar Wilde
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2016
• Spanisch
• ISBN-13: 9788892593381
• Artikelnr.: 44817587

Autorenporträt

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 - 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. Wilde's parents were successful Anglo-Irish Dublin intellectuals. 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 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. As a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities: he published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art" and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversation, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day.