Oscar

1. Oscar Wilde

Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

Gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

1. Oscar Wilde

A Poet Can Survive Everything But a Misprint

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. He went to Trinity College, Dublin and then to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he began to propagandize the new Aesthetic (or 'Art for Art's Sake') Movement.Despite winning a first and the Newdigate Prize for Poetry, Wilde failed to obtain an Oxford scholarship, and was forced to earn a living by lecturing and writing for periodicals. After his marriage to Constance Lloyd in 1884, he tried to establish himself as a writer, but with little initial success. However, his three volumes of short fiction, The Happy Prince (1888), Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (1891) and A House of Pomegranates (1891), together with his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), gradually won him a reputation as a modern writer with an original talent, a reputation confirmed and enhanced by the phenomenal success of his Society Comedies - Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, all performed on the West End stage between 1892 and 1895.Success, however, was short-lived. In 1891 Wilde had met and fallen extravagantly in love with Lord Alfred Douglas. In 1895, when his success as a dramatist was at its height, Wilde brought an unsuccessful libel action against Douglas's father, the Marquess of Queensberry. Wilde lost the case and two trials later was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for acts of gross indecency. As a result of this experience he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol. He was released from prison in 1897 and went into an immediate self-imposed exile on the Continent. He died in Paris in ignominy in 1900.

Roger Keesing

1. Oscar Wilde

The Portable Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray, Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest are accompanied by Wilde's prison memoirs, poems, and selected correspondence.

Teaching Stories

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Teaching stories is a term used by the writer Idries Shah to describe narratives that have been deliberately created as vehicles for the transmission of wisdom. Whilst it is a term that has been used in a number of religious and other traditions, Shah's use of it was in the context of Sufi teaching and learning, within which this body of material has been described as the "most valuable of the treasures in the human heritage". The range of teaching stories is enormous, including anecdotes, accounts of meetings between teachers and pupils, biographies, myths, fairy tales, fables and jokes. Such stories frequently have a long life beyond the initial teaching situation and (sometimes in deteriorated form) have contributed vastly to the world's store of folklore and literature.

1. Óscar , Millán

La caricia de la medusa

Daniel, Hugo y Andrés son tres jóvenes que contactan para compartir piso. Muy pronto surge entre ellos una amistad catártica que los cohesiona, exponiendo en tertulias sus asuntos emocionales íntimos y entrando en materia amorosa llegado el momento. Por su parte, Marta y Marisa son amigas inseparables con un nivel de comunicación entre ellas equivalente al de los chicos, compartiendo la intimidad de sus vivencias amorosas en multitud de ocasiones.El azar más bien el destino lleva a las vidas de todos los personajes a entrecruzarse en la masificada Mallorca del turismo, el sol y la arena. Esta mezcla de almas y lugares diversos dará como resultado vivencias tan intensas como inesperadas.