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Ο ευτυχισμένος πρίγκιπας
Όσκαρ Ουάιλντ (1854-1900). Από τους πιο σπουδαίους και χαρακτηριστικούς εκπροσώπους του ευρωπαϊκού αισθήματος, αμαρτίας, ενοχής και ανατροπής. Φυλακισμένος για τη δημόσια έκθεση των ομοφυλοφιλικών επιλογών του, μονίμως προσεκτικός στην εμφάνισή του, σοσιαλιστής στις προθέσεις του, λεπταίσθητος μέχρι εκζήτησης στις συμπεριφορές του, με όλα αυτά, αλλα προπάντων με την ευφυέστατη, προκλητικά ωμότατη και ταυτοχρόνως τρυφερότατα εξομολογητική γραφή του, ο Ουάιλντ ίσως αποτελεί -μαζί με τον Μπάιρον- την ερωτικότερη και πλέον απείθαρχη περιοχή της αγγλικής γλώσσας.
96 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1998
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Oscar Wilde
5,650 books39.2k 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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March 15, 2020
Μια πολύ όμορφη και εύστοχη ιστορία.Μ’έναν πρωτότυπο τρόπο προβάλλει διαφορετικές θεωρήσεις για το τί είναι όμορφο, σημαντικό, χρήσιμο ή πρόβλημα.
December 2, 2024
Για πολλά χρόνια διάβαζα μόνο την πρώτη ιστορία, χωρίς να δίνω σημασία στις επόμενες.
Παρ' όλα αυτά αναρωτήθηκα εάν μπορούν να με αγγίξουν το ίδιο, όπως και ο ευτυχισμένος πρίγκιπας. Σίγουρα ακόμη είναι η αγαπημένη μου, ιστορία, ωστόσο δεν μπορώ να πω ότι δεν συνδέθηκα συναισθηματικά.
Όμορφες ιστορίες και εξαιρετικό δώρο σε παιδιά, για να έρθουν σε επαφή με τα συναισθήματα τους και να αναπτύξουν την συναισθηματική τους νοημοσύνη.
Παρ' όλα αυτά αναρωτήθηκα εάν μπορούν να με αγγίξουν το ίδιο, όπως και ο ευτυχισμένος πρίγκιπας. Σίγουρα ακόμη είναι η αγαπημένη μου, ιστορία, ωστόσο δεν μπορώ να πω ότι δεν συνδέθηκα συναισθηματικά.
Όμορφες ιστορίες και εξαιρετικό δώρο σε παιδιά, για να έρθουν σε επαφή με τα συναισθήματα τους και να αναπτύξουν την συναισθηματική τους νοημοσύνη.
November 28, 2021
Το χρυσό άγαλμα ενός πρίγκιπα και ένα χελιδόνι, έχτισαν μια φιλία δυνατή. Ο πρίγκιπας ήθελε να βοηθήσει τον κόσμο που τόσο συμπονούσε και η μεγάλη του καρδιά δεν άντεχε την αδικία. Το μικρό χελιδόνι του έκανε παντοτινή συντροφιά, σαν δεξί του χέρι βοηθούσε κι εκείνο την ζωή των ανθρώπων να γίνει καλύτερη.Η φιλία τους αυτή η τόσο γλυκιά, η αιώνια, η αφοσίωση του μικρού χελιδονιού σε ένα άγαλμα με καρδιά κι αισθήματα, ένας δεσμός που μονάχα οι δύο τους μπορούσαν να καταλάβουν είναι κάτι το μοναδικό. Κάθε φορά που θα διαβάζω την ιστορία τους θα μου φέρνει δάκρυα συγκίνησης. Στην βιβλιοθήκη της καρδιάς μου κέρδισε επάξια την πρώτη θέση, ο ευτυχισμένος πρίγκιπας ξεπέρασε τον μικρό πρίγκιπα, στις μικρές μικρές του λεπτομέρειες έκανε την διαφορά, αγγίζοντας ευαίσθητες χορδές και υπενθυμίζοντας μου πως ένας φίλος καλός κι αφοσιωμένος όπου κι αν βρίσκεται με στέργει και νοιάζεται για εμένα, μοιραζόμαστε και κάνουμε πράξη καθένας με τον τρόπο του, την ίδια σκέψη πως θα κάνουμε από κοινού τον κόσμο λίγο πιο όμορφο. Τα 5 αστέρια είναι πολύ πολύ λίγα για το μικρό υπέροχο αυτό βιβλίο. ♡♡♡♡
November 25, 2019
Απλά υπέροχος και συγκινητικός.
April 3, 2022
Σε πιάνει μια ρημάδα συγκίνηση στο τέλος...άλλο πράμα.
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