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Book Synopsis Coffee with Oscar Wilde by : Merlin Holland
Download or read book Coffee with Oscar Wilde written by Merlin Holland and published by Duncan Baird Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Coffee with Groucho by : Simon Louvish
Download or read book Coffee with Groucho written by Simon Louvish and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast by : Oscar Wilde
Download or read book Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast written by Oscar Wilde and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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.
Download or read book Oscar Wilde written by Matthew Sturgis and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Writings of Oscar Wilde by : Oscar Wilde
Download or read book The Writings of Oscar Wilde written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wilde Album written by Merlin Holland and published by 4th Estate, Limited. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Son of Oscar Wilde by : Vyvyan Holland
Download or read book Son of Oscar Wilde written by Vyvyan Holland and published by Constable. This book was released on 1999 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Coffee with the Buddha by : Joan Duncan Oliver
Download or read book Coffee with the Buddha written by Joan Duncan Oliver and published by Duncan Baird Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the Buddha and hear about his life, the Four Noble Truths, karma and the path to enlightenment.
Book Synopsis The Sphinx Without a Secret by : Oscar Wilde
Download or read book The Sphinx Without a Secret written by Oscar Wilde and published by Modernista. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: »The Sphinx Without a Secret« is a short story by Oscar Wilde, originally published in 1891. OSCAR WILDE, born in 1854 in Dublin, died in 1900 in Paris, was an Irish prose writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. Wilde's significance as a symbol for persecuted homosexuals around the world is immeasurable. Wilde himself was sentenced to prison and hard labour, his works were boycotted, theatrical productions were shut down, and he was publicly vilified. The Picture of Dorian Gray [1890] is his most famous work.
Book Synopsis I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation by : Maria Leach
Download or read book I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation written by Maria Leach and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2011-04-04 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Shadowplay written by Joseph O'Connor and published by Europa Editions. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A West End theater in London is shaken up by the crimes of Jack the Ripper in this novel by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Star of the Sea. Henry Irving is Victorian London’s most celebrated actor and theater impresario. He has introduced groundbreaking ideas to the theater, bringing to the stage performances that are spectacular, shocking, and always entertaining. When Irving decides to open his own London theater with the goal of making it the greatest playhouse on earth, he hires a young Dublin clerk harboring literary ambitions by the name of Bram Stoker to manage it. As Irving’s theater grows in reputation and financial solvency, he lures to his company of mummers the century’s most beloved actress, the dazzlingly talented leading lady Ellen Terry, who nightly casts a spell not only on her audiences but also on Stoker and Irving both. Bram Stoker’s extraordinary experiences at the Lyceum Theatre, his early morning walks on the streets of a London terrorized by a serial killer, his long, tempestuous relationship with Irving, and the closeness he finds with Ellen Terry, inspire him to write Dracula, the most iconic and best-selling supernatural tale ever published. A magnificent portrait both of lamp-lit London and of lives and loves enacted on the stage, Shadowplay’s rich prose, incomparable storytelling, and vivid characters will linger in readers’ hearts and minds for many years. “A vibrantly imaginative narrative of passion, intrigue and literary ambition set in the garish heyday of a theater. . . . Artfully splicing truth with fantasy, O’Connor has a glorious time turning a ramshackle and haunted London playhouse into a primary source for Stoker’s Gothic imaginings.” —Miranda Seymour, The New York Times Book Review “A gorgeously written historical novel about Stoker’s inner life. . . . I wasn’t prepared to be awed by his prose, which is so good you can taste it. . . . O’Connor dazzles.” —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post “And Mr. O’Connor’s main characters—Stoker, Irving and the beloved actress Ellen Terry—are so forcefully brought to life that when, close to tears, you reach this drama’s final page, you will return to the beginning just to remain in their company.” —Anna Mundow, The Wall Street Journal “This novel blows the dust off its Victorian trappings and brings them to scintillating life.” —Publishers Weekly, PW Picks, Starred Review FINALIST 2019 COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST 2020 DALKEY LITERARY AWARD 2020 WALTER SCOTT PRIZE
Download or read book Wilde’s Wiles written by Annette M. Magid and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-11 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilde’s Wiles: Studies of the Influences on Oscar Wilde and His Enduring Influences in the Twenty-First Century is a collection of essays which celebrates the diversity of Oscar Wilde’s genius. This unique collection of scholarship explores not only his influence on a broad spectrum of subjects including: aesthetics, children’s literature, women’s issues, consumer economics, queer theory, politics, theater, film, poetry, Victorianism and other aspects of culture such as pedagogical approaches to Wilde’s literature, but it also examines the influence of his family and friends on him. Wilde’s Wiles: Studies of the Influences on Oscar Wilde and His Enduring Influences in the Twenty-First Century includes a wide range of approaches and concentrations written by international experts and has a broad spectrum of subjects which will appeal to a diversity of scholars seeking original and alternative approaches to understanding Oscar Wilde. The multiplicity of interest in the topic of Oscar Wilde expands across genres, disciplines, cultures and time, this being the second century of Wilde scholarship since his untimely death in November 1900 preceding the fin-de siècle. The unique, multi-discipline approach of Wilde’s Wiles is organized in three sections: “Aesthetic Approaches,” “Friends and Family,” and “Performance and Pedagogy” and bridges philosophical, sociological, psychological, economic and literary disciplines.
Download or read book All Men of Genius written by Lev AC Rosen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comedic Steampunk sensation inspired by both Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, All Men of Genius follows Violet Adams as she disguises herself as her twin brother to gain entry to Victorian London's most prestigious scientific academy, and once there, encounters blackmail, mystery, and love. Violet Adams wants to attend Illyria College, a widely renowned school for the most brilliant up-and-coming scientific minds, founded by the late Duke Illyria, the greatest scientist of the Victorian Age. The school is run by his son, Ernest, who has held to his father's policy that the small, exclusive college remain male-only. Violet sees her opportunity when her father departs for America. She disguises herself as her twin brother, Ashton, and gains entry. But keeping the secret of her sex won't be easy, not with her friend Jack's constant habit of pulling pranks, and especially not when the duke's young ward, Cecily, starts to develop feelings for Violet's alter ego, "Ashton." Not to mention blackmail, mysterious killer automata, and the way Violet's pulse quickens whenever the young duke, Ernest (who has a secret past of his own), speaks to her. She soon realizes that it's not just keeping her secret until the end of the year faire she has to worry about: it's surviving that long. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Book Synopsis Coffee with Einstein by : Carlos I. Calle
Download or read book Coffee with Einstein written by Carlos I. Calle and published by Duncan Baird Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a fictionalized interview with Albert Einstein, where the physicist discusses his life and work.
Book Synopsis The Various Flavours of Coffee by : Anthony Capella
Download or read book The Various Flavours of Coffee written by Anthony Capella and published by McArthur & Co. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a cup of coffee that changes Robert Wallis’s life — and a very bad cup of coffee at that. The impoverished poet is sitting in a London coffeehouse contemplating an uncertain future when he meets Samuel Pinker. The coffee merchant offers Wallis a job employing his palate and talent for words to compose a “vocabulary of coffee” based on its many subtle and elusive flavours. As Willis finds himself falling hopelessly in love with his coworker, Pinker’s spirited daughter Emily. Their love is tested when Wallis is dispatched on a journey to North Africa in search of the legendary Arab mocca. As he travels to coffee’s fabled birthplace — and learns the fiercely guarded secrets of the trade — Wallis meets Fikre, the defiant, seductive slave of a powerful coffee merchant, who serves him in the traditional Abyssinian coffee ceremony. And when Fikre dares to slip Wallis a single coffee bean, the mysteries of coffee and forbidden passion intermingle…and combine to change history and fate.
Book Synopsis Coffee and Power by : Jeffery M. Paige
Download or read book Coffee and Power written by Jeffery M. Paige and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the revolutionary years between 1979 and 1992, it would have been difficult to find three political systems as different as El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua, yet they found a common destination in democracy and free markets. Paige shows that the divergent political histories and the convergent outcome were shaped by one commodity: coffee.
Download or read book Oscar written by Matthew Sturgis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major biography of Oscar Wilde in thirty years, and the most complete telling of his life and times to date. NOMINATED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2019 'The Book of the Year, perhaps of the decade' TLS 'Simply the best modern biography of Wilde... A terrific achievement' Evening Standard 'Page-turning... Vivid and desperately moving. However much you think you know Wilde, this book will absorb and entertain you' The Sunday TimesBooks of the Year Oscar Wilde's life – like his wit – was alive with paradox. He was both an early exponent and a victim of 'celebrity culture': famous for being famous, he was lauded and ridiculed in equal measure. His achievements were frequently downplayed, his successes resented. He had a genius for comedy but strove to write tragedies. He was an unabashed snob who nevertheless delighted in exposing the faults of society. He affected a dandified disdain but was prone to great acts of kindness. Although happily married, he became a passionate lover of men and – at the very peak of his success – brought disaster upon himself. He disparaged authority, yet went to the law to defend his love for Lord Alfred Douglas. Having delighted in fashionable throngs, Wilde died almost alone. Above all, his flamboyant refusal to conform to the social and sexual orthodoxies of his day make him a hero and an inspiration to all who seek to challenge convention. Matthew Sturgis draws on a wealth of new material and fresh research, bringing alive the distinctive mood and characters of the fin de siècle in the richest and most compelling portrait of Wilde to date.
