Esteta, conferenziere, conversatore, polemista, uomo di spettacolo, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) crebbe a Dublino in un ambiente spregiudicato. Studiò a Oxford e ben presto si impose come una delle personalità dominanti nei circoli artistici e nei salotti inglesi e francesi. Dopo il matrimonio, la sua relazione omosessuale con lord Alfred Douglas suscitò enorme scalpore. Il padre di Alfred lo trascinò in tribunale, dove Wilde nel 1985 fu condannato per omosessuaità a due anni di lavori forzati. Scontata la pena, ridotto in miseria, abbandonato da tutti, morì a Parigi dove si era rifugiato. In questo Meridiano, tutto il meglio di ciò che Wilde stesso raccolse in volume, oltre a qualche campione della sua attività giornalistica.

On every level -- writing, direction, acting -- Double Indemnity (1944) is a triumph and stands as one of the greatest achievements in Billy Wilder's career. Adapted from the James M. Cain novel by director Wilder and novelist Raymond Chandler, it tells the story of an insurance salesman, played by Fred MacMurray, who is lured into a murder-for-insurance plot by Barbara Stanwyck, in an archetypal femme fatale role. From its grim story to its dark, atmospheric lighting, Double Indemnity is a definitive example of World War II-era film noir. Wilder's approach is everywhere evident: in the brutal cynicism the film displays, the moral complexity, and in the empathy we feel for the killers. The film received almost unanimous critical success, garnering seven Academy Award nominations. More than fifty years later, most critics agree that this classic is one of the best films of all time. The collaboration between Wilder and Raymond Chandler produced a masterful script and some of the most memorable dialogue ever spoken in a movie.
This facsimile edition of Double Indemnity contains Wilder and Chandler's original -- and quite different -- ending, published here for the first time. Jeffrey Meyers's introduction contextualizes the screenplay, providing hilarious anecdotes about the turbulent collaboration, as well as background information about Wilder and the film's casting and production.

Written from Wilde's prison cell at Reading Gaol to his friend and lover Lord Alfred Douglas, De Profundis explodes the conventions of the traditional love letter and offers a scathing indictment of Douglas's behavior, a mournful elegy for Wilde's own lost greatness, and an impassioned plea for reconciliation. At once a bracingly honest account of ruinous attachment and a profound meditation on human suffering, De Profundis is a classic of gay literature. Richard Ellmann calls De Profundis "a love letter...One of the greatest, and the longest, ever written."


This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition contains newly commissioned notes.

Summer is here!

The warm days of summer have arrived, and that means Laura gets to spend fun-filled days outdoors!

The winter is finally over, and now it is summertime! Laura and Mary are busy all day helping Ma in the garden and playing outside. RenÉe Graef's enchanting full-color illustrations, inspired by Garth Williams' classic artwork, bring Laura and her family lovingly to life in this sixth title in the My First Little House book series, picture books adapted from Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved storybooks.The winter is finally over, and now it is summertime! Laura and Mary are busy all day helping Ma in the garden and playing outside. RenÉe Graef's enchanting full-color illustrations, inspired by Garth Williams' classic artwork, bring Laura and her family lovingly to life in this sixth title in the My First Little House book series, picture books adapted from Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved storybooks.

Beginning with a series of lively, interactive exercises Miscue Analysis Made Easy leads us through the thinking processes and linguistic systems that readers use to build their understanding of text.

The Wiley Classics Library consists of selected books that have become recognized classics in their respective fields. With these new unabridged and inexpensiveeditions, Wiley hopes to extend the life of these important works by making themavailable to future generations of mathematicians and scientists.

Currently available in the Series:

T.W. Anderson
The Statistical Analysis of Time Series

T.S. Arthanari & Yadolah Dodge
Mathematical Programming in Statistics

Emil Artin
Geometric Algebra

Norman T. J. Bailey
The Elements of Stochastic Processes with Applications to the Natural Sciences

Robert G. Bartle
The Elements of Integration and

Lebesgue Measure
George E. P. Box & Norman R. Draper

Evolutionary Operation: A Statistical Method for Process Improvement
George E. P. Box & George C. Tiao

Bayesian Inference in Statistical Analysis
R. W. Carter

Finite Groups of Lie Type: Conjugacy Classes
and Complex Characters

R. W. Carter
Simple Groups of Lie Type

William G. Cochran & Gertrude M. Cox
Experimental Designs, Second Edition

Richard Courant
Differential and Integral Calculus, Volume I

Richard Courant
Differential and Integral Calculus, Volume II

Richard Courant & D. Hilbert
Methods of Mathematical Physics, Volume I

Richard Courant & D. Hilbert
Methods of Mathematical Physics, Volume II

D. R. Cox
Planning of Experiments

Harold S. M. Coxeter
Introduction to Geometry, Second Edition

Charles W. Curtis & Irving Reiner
Representation Theory of Finite Groups andAssociative Algebras

Charles W. Curtis & Irving Reiner
Methods of Representation Theory with Applications to Finite Groups and Orders, Volume I

Charles W. Curtis & Irving Reiner
Methods of Representation Theory with Applications to Finite Groups and Orders, Volume II

Cuthbert Daniel
Fitting Equations to Data: Computer Analysis of Multifactor Data, Second Edition

Bruno de Finetti
Theory of Probability, Volume I

Bruno de Finetti
Theory of Probability, Volume 2

W. Edwards Deming
Sample Design in Business Research

Amos de Shalit & Herman Feshbach
Theoretical Nuclear Physics, Volume 1? Nuclear Structure

Harold F. Dodge & Harry G. Romig
Sampling Inspection Tables: Single and Double Sampling

J. L. Doob
Stochastic Processes

Nelson Dunford & Jacob T. Schwartz
Linear Operators, Part One, General Theory

Nelson Dunford & Jacob T. Schwartz
Linear Operators, Part Two, Spectral Theory?Self Adjoint Operators in Hilbert Space

Nelson Dunford & Jacob T. Schwartz
Linear Operators, Part Three, Spectral Operators

Regina C. Elandt-Johnson & Norman L. Johnson
Survival Models and Data Analysis

Herman Feshbach
Theoretical Nuclear Physics: Nuclear Reactions

Joseph L. Fleiss
Design and Analysis of Clinical Experiments

Bernard Friedman
Lectures on Applications-Oriented Mathematics

Phillip Griffiths & Joseph Harris
Principles of Algebraic Geometry

Gerald J. Hahn & Samuel S. Shapiro
Statistical Models in Engineering

Marshall Hall, Jr.
Combinatorial Theory, Second Edition

Morris H. Hansen, William N. Hurwitz & William G. Madow
Sample Survey Methods and Theory, Volume I?Methods and Applications

Morris H. Hansen, William N. Hurwitz & William G. Madow
Sample Survey Methods and Theory, Volume II?Theory

Peter Henrici
Applied and Computational Complex Analysis, Volume 1?Power Series?Integration?Conformal Mapping?Location of Zeros

Peter Henrici
Applied and Computational Complex Analysis, Volume 2?Special Functions?Integral Transforms?Asymptotics?Continued Fractions

Peter Henrici
Applied and Computational Complex Analysis, Volume 3?Discrete Fourier Analysis?Cauchy Integrals?Construction of Conformal Maps?Univalent Functions

Peter Hilton & Yel-Chiang Wu
A Course in Modern Algebra

David C. Hoaglin, Frederick Mosteller & John W. Tukey
Understanding Robust and Exploratory Data Analysis

Harry Hochstadt

Now in a more affordable format for students, this stimulating hands-on course in creative thinking gets right down to specific design problems and offers viable solutions to them.

Nineteen challenging assignments and over one thousand pieces of solution art executed by the authors' students are presented. Each visual problem shows the actual assignment sheet given to the students and includes an analysis of the problem's underlying intent, addressing principles such as framal reference, negative-positive relationships, cropping techniques, and other important issues.

L'eleganza e la buona conversazione, l'arte e la moda negli scritti acuti e raffinati pubblicati su numerosi giornali e riviste da Wilde all'apice del suo successo. Un'ideale autobiografia pervasa dall'impareggiabile spirito caustico dello scrittore inglese.

Spesso Wilde è stato retrocesso al rango di faceto battutista, distillatore di aforismi buoni a tutti gli usi. In realtà, in tutta la sua opera trova espressione, in forme fulminanti e paradossali, una concezione modernissima dell'arte e della vita, che ne fa al tempo stesso uno dei padri e un feroce critico ante litteram della cultura di massa del Novecento. Questo volume insegue fin nelle pieghe del Wilde meno noto le espressioni più brillanti del suo pensiero e del suo personaggio. Ne esce il ritratto di un artista sorprendente, contraddittorio, capace di intuizioni dirompenti.

Una famosa illustratrice, Maria Battaglia, in un libro tradotto da una scrittrice poetessa, Vivian Lamarque; una collaborazione vincente già nella scorsa stagione con 'Il flauto magico'. Dalla bellissima fiaba di Oscar Wilde un album poetico e struggente, corredato da belle immagini. C'era una volta un Principe Felice che non era più tanto felice... E c'era anche una rondinella che incontrò il Principe e lo aiutò a sentirsi di nuovo felice.... Età di lettura: a partire da 7 anni.