Author: Merlin Holland
Publisher: Duncan Baird Publishers
ISBN: 9781844835126
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
So you've always wanted to know what is would be like to meet Oscar Wilde! Well, now you can - by a miracle of time travel. Enjoy his wit, admire his achievements on page and stage, and be moved by his poignant vulnerability.
Coffee with Oscar Wilde
Author: Merlin Holland
Publisher: Duncan Baird Publishers
ISBN: 9781844835126
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
So you've always wanted to know what is would be like to meet Oscar Wilde! Well, now you can - by a miracle of time travel. Enjoy his wit, admire his achievements on page and stage, and be moved by his poignant vulnerability.
Publisher: Duncan Baird Publishers
ISBN: 9781844835126
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
So you've always wanted to know what is would be like to meet Oscar Wilde! Well, now you can - by a miracle of time travel. Enjoy his wit, admire his achievements on page and stage, and be moved by his poignant vulnerability.
Oscar Wilde
Author: Matthew Sturgis
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0525656367
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 865
Book Description
The fullest, most textural, most accurate—most human—account of Oscar Wilde's unique and dazzling life—based on extensive new research and newly discovered materials, from Wilde's personal letters and transcripts of his first trial to newly uncovered papers of his early romantic (and dangerous) escapades and the two-year prison term that shattered his soul and his life. "Simply the best modern biography of Wilde." —Evening Standard Drawing on material that has come to light in the past thirty years, including newly discovered letters, documents, first draft notebooks, and the full transcript of the libel trial, Matthew Sturgis meticulously portrays the key events and influences that shaped Oscar Wilde's life, returning the man "to his times, and to the facts," giving us Wilde's own experience as he experienced it. Here, fully and richly portrayed, is Wilde's Irish childhood; a dreamy, aloof boy; a stellar classicist at boarding school; a born entertainer with a talent for comedy and a need for an audience; his years at Oxford, a brilliant undergraduate punctuated by his reckless disregard for authority . . . his arrival in London, in 1878, "already noticeable everywhere" . . . his ten-year marriage to Constance Lloyd, the father of two boys; Constance unwittingly welcoming young men into the household who became Oscar's lovers, and dying in exile at the age of thirty-nine . . . Wilde's development as a playwright. . . becoming the high priest of the aesthetic movement; his successes . . . his celebrity. . . and in later years, his irresistible pull toward another—double—life, in flagrant defiance and disregard of England's strict sodomy laws ("the blackmailer's charter"); the tragic story of his fall that sent him to prison for two years at hard labor, destroying his life and shattering his soul.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0525656367
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 865
Book Description
The fullest, most textural, most accurate—most human—account of Oscar Wilde's unique and dazzling life—based on extensive new research and newly discovered materials, from Wilde's personal letters and transcripts of his first trial to newly uncovered papers of his early romantic (and dangerous) escapades and the two-year prison term that shattered his soul and his life. "Simply the best modern biography of Wilde." —Evening Standard Drawing on material that has come to light in the past thirty years, including newly discovered letters, documents, first draft notebooks, and the full transcript of the libel trial, Matthew Sturgis meticulously portrays the key events and influences that shaped Oscar Wilde's life, returning the man "to his times, and to the facts," giving us Wilde's own experience as he experienced it. Here, fully and richly portrayed, is Wilde's Irish childhood; a dreamy, aloof boy; a stellar classicist at boarding school; a born entertainer with a talent for comedy and a need for an audience; his years at Oxford, a brilliant undergraduate punctuated by his reckless disregard for authority . . . his arrival in London, in 1878, "already noticeable everywhere" . . . his ten-year marriage to Constance Lloyd, the father of two boys; Constance unwittingly welcoming young men into the household who became Oscar's lovers, and dying in exile at the age of thirty-nine . . . Wilde's development as a playwright. . . becoming the high priest of the aesthetic movement; his successes . . . his celebrity. . . and in later years, his irresistible pull toward another—double—life, in flagrant defiance and disregard of England's strict sodomy laws ("the blackmailer's charter"); the tragic story of his fall that sent him to prison for two years at hard labor, destroying his life and shattering his soul.
The Writings of Oscar Wilde
Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast
Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241251818
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
'It would be unfair to expect other people to be as remarkable as oneself' Wilde's celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous biographers, the stupidity of the English - and his own genius. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241251818
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
'It would be unfair to expect other people to be as remarkable as oneself' Wilde's celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous biographers, the stupidity of the English - and his own genius. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
Coffee with Groucho
Author: Simon Louvish
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781844835157
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Meet Groucho Marx by a miracle of time travel. Sit back and enjoy his hilarious showbiz tales and his surreal flights of fantasy. A fictional dialogue based on biographical facts.
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781844835157
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Meet Groucho Marx by a miracle of time travel. Sit back and enjoy his hilarious showbiz tales and his surreal flights of fantasy. A fictional dialogue based on biographical facts.
The Wilde Album
Author: Merlin Holland
Publisher: 4th Estate, Limited
ISBN: 9781857027822
Category : Authors, Irish
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This collection of over 150 photographs and cartoons illuminates the life of Oscar Wilde, from his childhood, fame and imprisonment through to his death in Paris in 1900.
Publisher: 4th Estate, Limited
ISBN: 9781857027822
Category : Authors, Irish
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This collection of over 150 photographs and cartoons illuminates the life of Oscar Wilde, from his childhood, fame and imprisonment through to his death in Paris in 1900.
I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation
Author: Maria Leach
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN: 1843176866
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation is a celebration of the virtuoso of well-turned phrases and the master of the studied insult - Oscar Wilde.
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN: 1843176866
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation is a celebration of the virtuoso of well-turned phrases and the master of the studied insult - Oscar Wilde.
Coffee with the Buddha
Author: Joan Duncan Oliver
Publisher: Duncan Baird Publishers
ISBN: 9781844835096
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Meet the Buddha and hear about his life, the Four Noble Truths, karma and the path to enlightenment.
Publisher: Duncan Baird Publishers
ISBN: 9781844835096
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Meet the Buddha and hear about his life, the Four Noble Truths, karma and the path to enlightenment.
Son of Oscar Wilde
Author: Vyvyan Holland
Publisher: Constable
ISBN: 9781841190860
Category : Authors, Irish
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Vyvyan Wilde and his brother enjoyed a normal, happy Victorian childhood. Then, when Vyvyan was not yet nine, Oscar Wilde was arrested for homosexual acts. His wife and two sons changed their name and went into exile.
Publisher: Constable
ISBN: 9781841190860
Category : Authors, Irish
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Vyvyan Wilde and his brother enjoyed a normal, happy Victorian childhood. Then, when Vyvyan was not yet nine, Oscar Wilde was arrested for homosexual acts. His wife and two sons changed their name and went into exile.
Coffee with Einstein
Author: Carlos I. Calle
Publisher: Duncan Baird Publishers
ISBN: 9781844836130
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Presents a fictionalized interview with Albert Einstein, where the physicist discusses his life and work.
Publisher: Duncan Baird Publishers
ISBN: 9781844836130
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Presents a fictionalized interview with Albert Einstein, where the physicist discusses his life and work.