Author Oscar Wilde

The American ambassador to the United Kingdom, Mr. Hyrum B. Otis, is quite pleased. He acquired a real old English castle Canterville, with a real ghost. The spirit of Sir Simon de Canterville is also at first pleased. He's going to ask these smug Americans, he's going to scare them to death. But rational residents of the New World do not believe in bringing. Even when faced with the spirit of Sir de Canterville, Mr. Otis presents him with a bottle of machine oil, so that he smeared the chains with oil and no longer rattled them. And that's not the worst part. Teenagers twins Otis in every way is washed over the poor ghost, bringing him to a serious illness. And only Virginia Otis will lend a helping hand to the poor ghost.

Oscar Wilde's comedy was conceived as a graceful trinket. The title is based on the word game: the English adjective "serious," earnest, sounds almost the same as the male name Ernest. For some reason, it is Ernest who dreams of seeing his chosen two main characters of the play - each of them got into the head not only to himself, but also to his admirer that her fiance can not be called otherwise.

"Portrait of Dorian Gray" is one of the greatest works of the last century and a half, a novel that was tried to ban, and the author was condemned for "obscene behavior." The transformation of a beautiful and innocent young man Dorian into a monster under the influence of hedonistic ideas and cynical aphorisms of Lord Henry - in the novel that gave rise to the cult of eternal youth.

Children loved to play among the beautiful trees, but everything changed after the owner of the garden - the Giant returned from a long absence home. He fenced everything with a fence and hung a sign saying "Outside entrance is forbidden."