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Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[c2005]
Language
English
Description
October 2004 marked the 150th anniversary of Ireland's most famous literary genius, Oscar Wilde. During his lifetime, he was adored for the wit and wisdom of his plays, poetry and essays by a society who would later sentence and imprison him. In celebration of his life and works, this video presents over 150 of his best quotes, delivered by 150 of today's leading artists of stage, screen and music.
Author
Series
Great coversations volume 2
Publisher
Hovel Audio
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
In Ravi Zacharias' imaginative dialogue, Oscar Wilde asks Jesus Christ to respond to his questions about critical lifestyle choices. Their talk vividly illustrates arguments both for sensual pleasure-seeking and for moral moderation. Playwright, dramatist, poet, critic, Wilde openly defied the mores of Victorian society. His literary repartee fueled an "if it feels good, do it" humanistic philosophy that is still prevalent in the world today. Zacharias...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the spring of 1895 the life of Constance Wilde changed irrevocably. Up until the conviction of her husband, Oscar, for homosexual crimes, she had held a privileged position in society. Part of a gilded couple, she was a popular children's author, a fashion icon, and a leading campaigner for women's rights. A founding member of the magical society The Golden Dawn, her pioneering and questioning spirit encouraged her to sample some of the...
Series
Criterion collection volume 158
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2002
Language
English
Description
A witty, delightful story about a lovestruck suitor named Jack whose fiancee can only love a man named Ernest.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Dorian Gray is an innocent young man who has his portrait painted by a close friend. Soon after he falls under the influence of amoral Lord Henry Wotton. Dorian soon jilts his fiancee, which leads to her suicide. This is the start of a life of increasing debauchery. Dorian realizes that the outward signs of this are apparent only in the portrait. Eventually the picture, secreted in his childhood playroom, becomes almost hideous to behold. But Dorian...
Author
Series
Nellie Bly mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nellie Bly, Jules Verne, Oscar Wilde, and Louis Pasteur team up during the 1889 World's Fair in Paris to find a killer connected to a virulent plague infecting thousands of Parisians.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Colm Tóibín begins his incisive, revelatory Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know with a walk through the Dublin streets where he went to university--a wide-eyed boy from the country--and where three Irish literary giants also came of age: Wilde, Yeats, and Joyce. Elegant, profound, and riveting, Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know illuminates not only the complex relationships between three of the greatest writers in the English language and their fathers, but...
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A witty and modern remake of Oscar Wilde's novella about an American family who moves into a haunted English country house. From the makers of Father Brown. Sir Simon de Canterville is the premier ghost in the British Isles, and exquisitely proud of his dastardly reputation. So when the Otis family leaves America and moves into Canterville's abandoned family estate, Sir Simon prepares to give them the fright of their life. There's just one problem....
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