Oscar Wilde And The Murders At Reading Gaol

Author : Gyles Brandreth
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439172315

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Oscar Wilde and the Murders at Reading Gaol by Gyles Brandreth Pdf

In this new installment in the engaging mystery series Booklist called “pitch-perfect” and “enthralling”—currently in development as a BBC television series—the incomparable playwright, novelist, raconteur, and now ex-convict Oscar Wilde faces his most fiendishly puzzling case yet. Oscar Wilde has fled to France after his release from Reading Gaol. Tonight he is sharing a drink and the story of his cruel imprisonment with a mysterious stranger. Oscar has endured the treadmill, solitary confinement, censored letters, no writing materials. Yet even in the midst of such deprivation, his astonishing detective powers remain undiminished—and when first a brutal warder and then the prison chaplain are found murdered, who else should the governor turn to for help other than Reading Gaol’s most celebrated inmate?

Author : Gyles Brandreth
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439153758

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Oscar Wilde and the Murders at Reading Gaol by Gyles Brandreth Pdf

In this new installment in the engaging mystery series Booklist called “pitch-perfect” and “enthralling”—currently in development as a BBC television series—the incomparable playwright, novelist, raconteur, and now ex-convict Oscar Wilde faces his most fiendishly puzzling case yet. Oscar Wilde has fled to France after his release from Reading Gaol. Tonight he is sharing a drink and the story of his cruel imprisonment with a mysterious stranger. Oscar has endured the treadmill, solitary confinement, censored letters, no writing materials. Yet even in the midst of such deprivation, his astonishing detective powers remain undiminished—and when first a brutal warder and then the prison chaplain are found murdered, who else should the governor turn to for help other than Reading Gaol’s most celebrated inmate?

Author : Gyles Daubeney Brandreth
Publisher : John Murray Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 1848542534

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Oscar Wilde and the Murders at Reading Gaol by Gyles Daubeney Brandreth Pdf

Oscar Wilde has fled to France after his release from Reading Gaol. Tonight he is sharing a drink and the story of his cruel imprisonment with a mysterious stranger. Oscar has endured the treadmill, solitary confinement, censored letters, no writing materials. Yet even in the midst of such deprivation, his astonishing detective powers remain undiminished. When first a brutal warder and then the prison chaplain are found murdered, who else should the Governor turn to for help other than Reading Gaol's most celebrated inmate?

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : English poetry
ISBN : HARVARD:32044090302621

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The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde Pdf

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : History
ISBN : HARVARD:32044020394466

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The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde Pdf

He did not wear his scarlet coat, For blood and wine are red, And blood and wine were on his hands When they found him with the dead, The poor dead woman whom he loved, And murdered in her bed. He walked amongst the Trial Men In a suit of shabby grey; A cricket cap was on his head, And his step seemed light and gay; But I never saw a man who looked So wistfully at the day. I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky, And at every drifting cloud that went With sails of silver by.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9788726598711

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The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde Pdf

"Like two doomed ships that pass in storm We had crossed each other's way: But we made no sign, we said no word, We had no word to say." Oscar Wilde was a married man with children, who had homosexual affairs. Since his sexual preference was considered taboo, not to mention illegal, in the Victorian era, he was famously sentenced to two years in prison for gross indecency. The Ballad of Reading Gaol tells the story of an execution he witnessed while there of a man who killed his wife. It is powerful and haunting, and Wilde’s pain seeps through with every word. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet, famous for ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ and ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ to name a couple. He was believed to be gay and met a lot of resistance in his life on that account. He died in Paris at the age of 46.

Author : Gyles Brandreth
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439153734

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Oscar Wilde and the Vatican Murders by Gyles Brandreth Pdf

Authors Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle team up to find a determined killer whose victims are tied to the inner workings of the Roman Catholic Church.

Author : Gyles Brandreth
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781416987208

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Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man's Smile by Gyles Brandreth Pdf

Playwright and raconteur Oscar Wilde embarks on another adventure as he sets sail for America in the 1880s on a roller coaster of a lecture tour. But the adventure doesn't truly begin until Oscar boards an ocean liner headed back across the Atlantic and joins a motley crew led by French impresario Edmond La Grange. As Oscar becomes entangled with the La Grange acting dynasty, he suspects that all is not as it seems. What begins with a curious death at sea soon escalates to a series of increasingly macabre tragedies once the troupe arrives in Paris to perform Hamlet. A strange air of indifference surrounds these seemingly random events, inciting Oscar to dig deeper, aided by his friends Robert Sherard and the divine Sarah Bernhardt. What he discovers is a horrifying secret -- one that may bring him closer to his own last chapter than anyone could have imagined. As intelligent as it is beguiling, this third installment in the richly historical mystery series is sure to captivate and entertain.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Law
ISBN : HARVARD:32044011842341

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The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde Pdf

"The Ballad of Reading Gaol" is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile either in Berneval-le-Grand or in Dieppe, France, after his release from Reading Gaol (pronounced "redding jail") on 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading after being convicted of homosexual offences in 1895 and sentenced to two years' hard labour in prison.During his imprisonment, on Tuesday, 7 July 1896, a hanging took place. Charles Thomas Wooldridge had been a trooper in the Royal Horse Guards. He was convicted of cutting the throat of his wife, Laura Ellen, earlier that year at Clewer, near Windsor. He was aged 30 when executed.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781633551824

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Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde Pdf

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish playwright, poet and author of numerous short stories and one novel. Known for his biting wit, and a plentitude of aphorisms, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day. Several of his plays continue to be widely performed, especially The Importance of Being Earnest.

Author : Gyles Brandreth
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439153697

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Oscar Wilde and the Vampire Murders by Gyles Brandreth Pdf

Oscar Wilde and the Vampire Murders opens in 1890, at a glamorous party hosted by the Duke and Duchess of Albemarle. All of London’s high society—including the Prince of Wales—are in attendance at what promises to be the event of the season. Yet Oscar Wilde is more interested in another party guest, Rex LaSalle, a young actor who claims to be a vampire. But the entertaining evening ends in tragedy when the duchess is found murdered—with two tiny puncture marks on her throat. Desperate to avoid scandal and panic, the Prince asks Oscar and his friend Arthur Conan Doyle to investigate the crime. What they discover threatens to destroy the very heart of the royal family. Told through diary entries, newspaper clippings, telegrams, and letters, Oscar Wilde and the Vampire Murders is a richly atmospheric mystery that is sure to captivate and entertain.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1840224010

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De Profundis by Oscar Wilde Pdf

Contains De Profundis, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, The Soul of Man under Socialism, The Decay of Lying and The Critic as Artist.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798643622277

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The Ballad of Reading Gaol (Annotated) by Oscar Wilde Pdf

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde.In 1895, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was convicted of "acts of gross indecency with other men" and sentenced to two years of forced labor. He was sent first to Pentonville, then to Wandsworth, and finally to Reading Gaol. After his release in May 1897, Wilde left for France, where he settled near Dieppe. He never saw his wife, Constance again, nor did he return to England or Ireland. While in Dieppe, Wilde wrote two letters to the Daily Chronicle protesting the brutalities of prison life, including the inhumane treatment of children in prison. A month before his second letter appeared in 1898, Wilde published Ballad of Reading Gaol, a grimly realistic poem that describes the hanging of Charles Thomas Wooldridge, a Royal Horse Guards soldier, for the murder of his wife. His publication gave the author's name as C.3.3 (Wilde's number in Reading Gaol, his cell being the third cell on the third floor of Block C). Oscar Wilde, was a writer, poet and playwright of Irish origin. Wilde is considered one of the most outstanding playwrights of late Victorian London; In addition, he was a celebrity of the time due to his great and sharp wit. Today, he is remembered for his epigrams, his plays,

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780486270722

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The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems by Oscar Wilde Pdf

Twenty-four important works, focusing on Wilde's poetic legacy, offer important clues to themes and subjects that preoccupied this gifted writer in other works. Includes The Ballad of Reading Gaol, a powerful indictment of the degradation and inhumanity of prison life; "The Sphinx," "The Grave of Keats," "The Harlot's House," and 20 others.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:639944774

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The Ballad of Reading Gaol, by C.3.3. [Oscar Wilde]. by Oscar Wilde Pdf