Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900
Well, we’re having a heat-wave in Adelaide, and it was too hot all weekend to go outside. The good news is that it gave me time to add more ebooks to our site! I already had a collection of Oscar Wilde‘s poetry. New titles added this weekend include The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the two collections of fables, The Happy Prince and A House of Pomegranates.
(Personally, I find the Happy Prince to be a rather miserable story, as is the Nightingale and the Rose. But The Fisherman and his Soul is an extraordinary tale which resonated well with me.)
The Happy Prince is also beautifully illustrated by Charles Robinson. In fact it took me hours of work to get the images properly aligned, so you’d better appreciate it!
After doing all that, I then set to work on Wilde’s play,Salomé. Although there were copies of the original French version of the play available online, I could not find a version in English, as an ebook. So I made one — we now have Salomé : A Tragedy in One Act, featuring the very nice illustrations of Aubrey Beardsley, the master of Art Nouveau illustration.
Which, finally, led me to also create The Art of Aubrey Beardsley, with an introduction by Arthur Symons and 64 illustrations.
As always, I welcome your feedback. (And a cool change in the weather, please!)
Thank you thank you great site. Do you have a favorite e-reader programme that you use when you download books. I am using Adobe Digital Editions. I also just read them as they come down. Very pleased to see Cranford is available as I enjoyed the ABC series.
Regards Jan