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When the American Otis family buys the English mansion Canterville Chase, they ignore warnings that it is haunted. Far from being frightened by the ghost of Sir Simon, a centuries-old spirit, the Otises baffle him by offering stain remover for his bloodstains and lubricant for his noisy chains. While the family's mischievous twins terrorize the specter, he falls into despair. Only the compassion of young Virginia can help the tormented ghost find redemption and eternal rest in this clever satire about cultural clashes.

Enter a spellbinding collection of classic fantasy and mythic adventure, blending ancient kingdoms, heroic legends, dark sorcery, and poetic romance from Robert E. Howard and Oscar Wilde...

Classic Fantasy Tales of Sorcery, Adventure, and Wonder, Vol. 3 gathers timeless tales of loyalty, treasure, danger, and heroic adventure from Robert E. Howard and Oscar Wilde. Featuring The Devoted Friend, Jewels of Gwahlur, and Red Shadows, this collection blends moral fable, lost-world...

 Over 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted The Picture of Dorian Gray for publication, the uncensored version of his novel appears here for the first time in audio. This volume restores material, including instances of graphic homosexual content, removed by the novel's first editor, who feared it would be "offensive" to Victorians. 

Immerse yourself in a world where the wonderful Stephen Fry reads some of the more memorable Children’s short stories written by one of our most successful playwrights of all time. A brilliant combination of reader and writer come together in these seven short stories available on digital...

The classic of eternal youth. 'How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young… If it was only the other way!' Wilde's first and only published novel recounts the story of handsome Dorian Gray who upon having his portrait painted desires...

Oscar Wilde's Salome was originally published in French in 1891 and translated into English by Lord Alfred Douglas. This one-act play, a sinister tale of a woman scorned and her vengeance, has become a landmark of Decadent literature. The play tells the biblical story of Salome, stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas, who, to her stepfather's dismay but to the delight of her mother Herodias, requests the head of John the Baptist on a silver platter as a reward for dancing the dance of the seven veils.

Hughie Erskine is in love and wants to marry, but the girl's father will not allow it, since Erskine has no money. Erskine's friend Alan Trevor is a painter, and he visits him at his studio one day to find him with a pitiable beggar—the model for his painting. Erskine only has one coin, on which he depends for transportation, but he decides he can walk for a couple of weeks and gives the beggar the coin.

Something was dead in each of us,
And what was dead was Hope. In this moving poetic study of his experiences in the Victorian penal system, Wilde relates the relentlessness and tedium of prison life, and of the haunted thoughts which trouble these "souls in agony" within their "numbered tombs". Oscar Wilde wrote "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" after his two-year imprisonment at the establishment. During his incarceration, a former trooper was convicted of the murder of his wife and hanged at the Gaol. This event is central to the poem's narrative.

Between 1895 and 1897 Oscar Wilde served a prison sentence for offences "of gross indecency". Most of this time was spent at Reading Gaol, where Wilde encountered another prisoner, Harles Thomas Wooldridge, sentenced to death for the murder of his wife. Wooldrige was hanged at the gaol on 7th July, 1896. Wilde wrote the poem in France in 1897 after his release from prison. The poem is a long reflection on the inequity and ineffectiveness of statutory punishment and the redeeming power of the Christian message of forgiveness.

Oscar Wilde created his final and most lasting play, one of the comic masterpieces of all time, The Importance of Being Earnest, in 1895. It is a farce playing with love, religion, and truth as it tells the tale of two men, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, who bend the truth in order to add excitement to their lives. Jack invents an imaginary brother, Ernest, whom he uses as an excuse to escape from his dull country home and gallivant in town.

Oscar Wilde bleibt keine Zeit zum Durchatmen. Nur knapp ist er in Whitby dem Tod entronnen. Doch kaum in London angekommen, sieht er sich auch hier mit einer neuen Gefahr konfrontiert. Eine unbekannte dunkle Macht streckt ihre Finger nach der britischen Hauptstadt aus. Menschen verschwinden spurlos. Auch einer von Mycroft Holmes Agenten gehört zu den Vermissten. Ein neuer Gegner tritt aus den Schatten und fordert die Sonderermittler der Krone zum Kampf!

Scotland Yard ist ein großer Fisch ins Netz gegangen. Endlich ist es gelungen den berüchtigten Meisterdieb, dem Schatten das Handwerk zu legen. Um einer langjährigen Haftstrafe zu entgehen macht er den Beamten ein Angebot. Schon lange macht unter den Dieben der Stadt, immer wieder ein Gerücht die Runde, die legendäre Auktion der Diebe. Der Schatten behauptet zu wissen, wie es gelingen kann sich zur diesjährigen Veranstaltung Zutritt zu verschaffen. Doch eine ganze andere Nachricht elektrisiert die Behörden. Auf der Auktion soll die wissenschaftliche Arbeit Röntgens zum Kauf angeboten werden.

Mycroft Holmes wurde entführt! Wie aus heiterem Himmel steht das kleine Ermittlerteam urplötzlich vor einer ernsten Zerreißprobe. Der Entführer stellt Oscar Wilde und seinen Freunden ein Ultimatum. Binnen 48 Stunden sollen Sie ihm eine Mappe von Dokumenten beschaffen. Diese befinden sich jedoch an einem Ort, den nur wenige Menschen je gesehen haben. Dem Labyrinth der Angst. Eine ehemalige Forschungsstation der Charles Darwin Gesellschaft, tief unter den Straßen der Stadt. Es beginnt ein mörderischer Zeitlauf, in dem Wilde und seine Verbündeten ums nackte Überleben kämpfen müssen.

Eine heikle diplomatische Mission droht zu scheitern - und nur die besten Agenten der britischen Krone können noch Herren der Lage werden. Doch Oscar Wilde und Mycroft Holmes sind bei ihrem Einsatz in Prag nicht allein. Die blutige Spur führt direkt zur Oper, und dort kennt sich niemand besser aus als Irene Adler, Vertraute von Sherlock Holmes - und erklärte Feindin von Oscar Wilde! Ein Verwirrspiel um vertauschte Rollen und tödliche Intrigen beginnt. Und hinter den Kulissen lauert ein skrupelloser Attentäter, der den gesamten Kontinent buchstäblich in Brand setzen will.