Oscar Wilde

The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume contains Oscar Wilde's translation of ¿The Satyricon¿, a Latin work of fiction most likely written by Gaius Petronius. An example of Menippean satire, it contains both verse and prose presented with comic and serious elements, and concerns the unusual escapades of the narrator Encolpius and his 16-year-old slave and boyfriend Giton. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854¿1900) was an Irish poet and playwright who became one of the most popular in London during the 1880s and 1890s. Well-known for his sharp wit and extravagant attire, Wilde was a proponent of aestheticism and wrote in a variety of forms including poetry, fiction, and drama. He was famously imprisoned for homosexual acts from 1895 to 1897 and died at the age of 46, just three years after his release. Other notable works by this author include: ¿Picture of Dorian Gray¿ (1890), ¿Salome¿ (1891), and ¿The Importance of Being Earnest¿ (1895). Read & Co. Classics is proudly republishing this classic work now in a new edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of Oscar Wilde.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Read & Co. Classics
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 482g
• ISBN-13: 9781446512906
• ISBN-10: 1446512908
• Artikelnr.: 32777735

Autorenporträt

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, also known as Oscar Wilde, was an Irish poet and playwright who lived from 16 October 1854 to 30 November 1900. He wrote in a variety of genres throughout the 1880s before becoming one of London's most well-known playwrights in the early 1890s. The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays and epigrams, as well as the circumstances surrounding his meningitis-related early death at age 46 and criminal conviction for gross indecency for consensual homosexual activities in "one of the earliest celebrity trials," is what people will remember him for most. Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin, Wilde's parents were. French and German were picked up by young Wilde with ease. While in college, Wilde read the Greats and distinguished himself as an outstanding student of classical literature, first at Trinity College Dublin and then at Oxford. He became involved with the aestheticism movement, which was being spearheaded by two of his professors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. Wilde moved to London after finishing college and became a part of rich social and cultural circles. Queensberry intended to publicly humiliate Wilde by tossing a bouquet of decaying vegetables onto the stage, but Wilde was informed and had Queensberry turned away from the theater.