The Picture of Dorian Grey. The Canterville Ghost. Wilde O.

“Portrait of Dorian Gray” is the most famous work of Oscar Wilde, his only novel, which at one time a flurry of negative assessments and nevertheless had incredible success. The main character of the novel, handsome Dorian, is a dual, ambiguous figure. The thin esthete and the romantic become a ruthless criminal, and an attempt to preserve his extraordinary beauty and youth turns into a failure.

The stories and tales of Wilde-including the famous “Canterville Ghost”, “Happy Prince”, “Boy star” and “Nightingale and Rose”-combine romance and satire on society, they are ironic and a little Sadly, full of grace and wit. And his fairy tales, written for adults, “who have not lost the gift of rejoice and amazed,” are touching stories about love, kindness and self -sacrifice.