书名：The Picture of Dorian Gray andOther Writings 道林格雷的画像和王尔德其他作品

难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数970L

作者：Oscar Wilde 奥斯卡·王尔德

出版社名称：Bantam Classics

出版时间：2005

语种：英文

ISBN：9780553212549

商品尺寸：10.6 x 2.8 x 17.4 cm

包装：简装

页数：544

“I am what I am.”这句话就出自英国知名戏剧家、小说家奥斯卡·王尔德的哲学性作品The Picture of Dorian Gray《道林格雷的画像》。这部王尔德少有的小说，是哲学、美学和文学的完美结合。作品揭示了社会以及人性黑暗面，在发表之初一度引起争议。但在今天看来，因为其深刻的内涵和引人深思的人物情节设置，《道林格雷的画像》却是一部不可多得的好作品，英国“卫报”推荐百大文学作品排名第27位。本书为BantamClassics推出的简装便携英文原版，包含The Picture of Dorian Gray《道林格雷的画像》以及王尔德其他作品：Lady Windermere’s Fan《温德米尔夫人的扇子》、Salome《西班牙公主的生日》、An Ideal Husband《西班牙公主的生日》和The Importance of Being Earnest《不可儿戏》、The Ballad of Reading Gaol《瑞丁监狱之歌》。作品内容完整无删减，书本轻巧便携，由Richard Ellmann作序。 

Flamboyant and controversial, Oscar Wilde was a dazzling personality, a master of wit, and a dramatic genius whose sparkling comedies contain some of the most brilliant dialogue ever written for the English stage. Here in one volume are his immensely popular novel,The Picture of Dorian Gray; his last literary work, “The Ballad of Reading Gaol,” a product of his own prison experience; and four complete plays:Lady Windermere’s Fan, his first dramatic success,An Ideal Husband, which pokes fun at conventional morality,The Importance of Being Earnest, his finest comedy, and Salomé, a portrait of uncontrollable love originally written in French and faithfully translated by Richard Ellmann. Every selection appears in its entirety–a marvelous collection of outstanding works by the incomparable Oscar Wilde, who’s been aptly called “a lord of language” by Max 

The Picture of Dorian Gray道林格雷的画像道林格雷是一名长在伦敦的贵族少年，相貌极其俊美，并且心地善良。道林见了画家霍尔沃德为他所作的画像，发现了自己惊人的美，在画家朋友亨利勋爵的蛊惑下，他向画像许下心愿：美少年青春永葆，所有岁月的沧桑和少年的罪恶都由画像承担。后来他的愿望成真了，但是他却开始了一系列罪恶的行为…… 

The Picture of Dorian Gray is the story of one beautiful, innocent young man’s seduction, moral corruption, and eventual downfall. Dorian Gray is the subject of a full-length portrait in oil by Basil Hallward, an artist who is impressed and infatuated by Dorian’s beauty; he believes that Dorian’s beauty is responsible for the new mode in his art as a painter. Through Basil, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, and he soon is enthralled by the aristocrat’s hedonistic worldview: that beauty and sensual fulfilment are the only things worth pursuing in life. Newly understanding that his beauty will fade, Dorian expresses the desire to sell his soul, to ensure that the picture, rather than he, will age and fade. The wish is granted, and Dorian pursues a libertine life of varied and amoral experiences, while staying young and beautiful; all the while his portrait ages and records every soul-corrupting sin. 

Lady Windermere’s Fan温德米尔夫人的扇子 《温德米尔夫人的扇子》剧本作于1892年。温德米尔夫人不知丈夫私下接济并坚持邀请来参加她生日舞会的埃尔琳夫人是她的离过婚的母亲，怀疑丈夫与埃尔琳夫人关系暧昧，负气来到追求她的伯爵家里。埃尔琳夫人赶来劝解。恰好伯爵和客人回家，两位夫人躲了起来，但温德米尔夫人遗忘的扇子被发现。为免女儿出丑，埃尔琳夫人出来承认扇子是自己的，使女儿得以暗中离去。Beautiful, aristocratic, an adored wife and young mother, Lady Windermere is “a fascinating puritan” whose severe moral code leads her to the brink of social suicide. The only one who can save her is the mysterious Mrs Erlynne whose scandalous relationship with Lord Windermere has prompted her fatal impulse. And Mrs Erlynne has a secret— a secret Lady Windermere must never know if she is to retain her peace of mind. 

Salome莎乐美独幕剧《莎乐美》中，莎乐美是个年仅十六岁的妙龄美女，由于向约翰求爱被拒，愤而请希律王将约翰斩首，把约翰的首级拿在手中亲吻，以这种血腥的方式拥有了约翰。《莎乐美》写就了热爱美、追求美、为美而献身、因美而毁灭的一个美的悲剧。 Written in French, Salome by Oscar Wilde is the theatrical reproduction of the famous Biblical story with the same name. Salome is the daughter of Herod and requests his father to meet Jokanaan (John the Baptist) who is his prisoner. The father grants her daughter’s wish and Salome falls in love with John. The holy man rejects Salome but she isn’t quite ready to give up yet.  

An Ideal Husband理想丈夫齐尔敦爵士的事业与家庭皆幸福美满，他是受人尊敬的出色政客，同时也是美丽妻子的理想丈夫。然而，当旧识薛芙丽夫人出现，并威胁要公开过去那不可告人的秘密，一向镇定自若的齐尔敦乱了阵脚，只能求助风流倜傥的好友高凌。高凌对道德与爱情有独到见解，却发现自己陷入了更大的麻烦……全剧在保密与泄密之间柳暗花明，迂回进展，持续紧张而终至高潮。  Wilde’s scintillating drawing-room comedy revolves around a blackmail scheme that forces a married couple to reexamine their moral standards. A supporting cast of young lovers, society matrons, and a formidable femme fatale exchange sparkling repartee, keeping the action of the play at a lively pace.  

The Importance of Being Earnest不可儿戏故事发生在19世纪90年代的英格兰。那时候，对于一位女士或先生来说，住在合乎身份的地方并认识所有的上层人士是很重要的。而和一个家庭条件优越的人结婚则是重中之重。剧中有许多人物，比如布拉克内尔夫人，都抱有这样一种观念：如果一个年轻女孩每年能有几千英镑进账，她就能成为一个好妻子。年轻的阿尔杰农·蒙克里夫对结婚不感兴趣。他钟爱美食、美酒和漂亮女孩；他喜欢单身的感觉。可是当他发现朋友的秘密之后．他的想法很快就会改变…… The Importance of Being Earnest shows a full measure of Oscar Wilde’s legendary wit, and embodies more than any of his other plays, his decency and warmth. 

The Ballad of Reading Gaol瑞丁监狱之歌《瑞丁监狱之歌》是王尔德为了记载狱中遭遇的点滴而写成，是王尔德有名的诗作。1897年获释后，王尔德立刻动身前往巴黎，对于英国他失望透顶，不再有丝毫留恋。其后他为了两名孩子曾尝试与妻子康斯坦斯复合，但波西亦同时表示想与王尔德重归如好，后来王尔德放弃两名孩子而选择了波西。王尔德在以化名居住法国期间完成并出版了《瑞丁监狱之歌》，之后与波西同游意大利。但几个月后，两人再次分手。This poem— originally published anonymously, written after Wilde’s two year’s hard labour in Reading prison— is the tale of a man who has been sentenced to hang for the murder of the woman he loved. The Ballad of Reading Gaol follows the inmate through his final three weeks, as he stares at the sky and silently drinks his beer ration. Heart-wrenching and eye-opening, the ballad also expresses perfectly Wilde’s belief that humanity is made up only of offenders, each of us deserving a greater charity for the severity of our crimes.

奥斯卡·王尔德（Oscar Wilde，1854~1900），出生于爱尔兰都柏林，是有名的作家、诗人、戏剧家、艺术家，唯美主义艺术运动的倡导者。他于1874年进入牛津大学学习，受到了沃尔特·佩特及约翰·拉斯金的审美观念影响，并接触了新黑格尔派哲学、达尔文进化论和拉斐尔前派的作品。王尔德于1884年结婚，婚后生了两个孩子。1895年因为与同性友人阿尔弗莱德·道格拉斯（Lord Alfred Douglas）交往，进而被判入狱。1897年获释后前去巴黎，直至1900年在巴黎因病去世。著有童话集《快乐王子与其他故事》等、诗集《斯芬克斯》等、小说《道林·格雷的画像》等、戏剧《不可儿戏》《莎乐美》等，另有散文《自深深处》与评论集数本，是不可多得的全才作家。 

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was born in Dublin, Ireland. He was an outstanding student of classics at Trinity College, and in 1874, he entered Magdalen College, Oxford, where he won the Newdigate Prize with his poemRavenna (1878). An early leader of the Aesthetic Movement, which advanced the concept of “art for art’s sake,” Wilde became a prominent personality in literary and social circles. His volume of fairy tales, The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888), was followed by The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) and The House of Pomegranates (1892). However, it was not until his play Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892) was presented to the public that he became widely famous. A Woman of No Importance (1893) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) confirmed his stature as a dramatist. In 1895, he brought libel action against the Marquis of Queensbury, who had accused him of the crime of sodomy. He lost, however, and was sentenced under the Criminal Law Amendment Act to two years’ imprisonment with hard labor. Upon his release in 1897, he settled in France, where he wrote his most powerful and enduring poem,The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898). Wilde never returned to England; he died in Paris.

Introduction by Richard Ellmann

The Picture of Dorian Gray 

Lady Windermere’s Fan

Salome

An Ideal Husband

The Importance of Being Earnest

The Ballad of Reading Gaol

THE STUDIO was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the most delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn. 

From the corner of the divan of Persian saddlebags on which he was lying, smoking, as was his custom, innumerable cigarettes, Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flamelike as theirs; and now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid jade-faced painters of Tokio who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion. The sullen murmur of the bees shouldering their way through the long unmown grass, or circling with monotonous insistence round the dusty gilt horns of the straggling woodbine, seemed to make the stillness more oppressive. The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ. 

In the centre of the room, clamped to an upright easel, stood the full-length portrait of a young man of extraordinary personal beauty, and in front of it, some little distance away, was sitting the artist himself, Basil Hallward, whose sudden disappearance some years ago caused, at the time, such public excitement, and gave rise to so many strange conjectures. 

As the painter looked at the gracious and comely form he had so skilfully mirrored in his art, a smile of pleasure passed across his face, and seemed about to linger there. But he suddenly started up, and, closing his eyes, placed his fingers upon the lids, as though he sought to imprison within his brain some curious dream from which he feared he might awake. 

“It is your best work, Basil, the best thing you have ever done,” said Lord Henry, languidly. “You must certainly send it next year to the Grosvenor. The Academy is too large and too vulgar. Whenever I have gone there, there have been either so many people that I have not been able to see the pictures, which was dreadful, or so many pictures that I have not been able to see the people, which was worse. The Grosvenor is really the only place.” 

“I don’t think I shall send it anywhere,” he answered, tossing his head back in that odd way that used to make his friends laugh at him at Oxford. “No; I won’t send it anywhere.” 

Lord Henry elevated his eyebrows, and looked at him in amazement through the thin blue wreaths of smoke that curled up in such fanciful whorls from his heavy opium-tainted cigarette. “Not send it anywhere? My dear. fellow, why? Have you any reason? What odd chaps you painters are! You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one, you seem to want to throw it away. It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. A portrait like this would set you far above all the young men in England, and make the old men quite jealous, if old men are ever capable of any emotion.”

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