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Author : David Charles Rose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:956263856
Author : David Charles Rose
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443887632
Why was Paris so popular as a place of both innovation and exile in the late nineteenth century? Using French, English and American sources, this first volume of a trilogy provides a possible answer with a detailed exploration of both the city and its communities, who, forming a varied cast of colourful characters from duchesses to telephonists, artists to beggars, and dancers to diplomats, crowd the stage. Through the throng moves Oscar Wilde as the connecting thread: Wilde exploratory, Wilde triumphant, Wilde ruined. This use of Wilde as a central figure provides both a cultural history of Paris and a view of how he assimilated himself there. By interweaving fictional representations of Paris and Parisians with historical narrative, Paris of the imagination is blended with the topography of the city described by Victor Hugo as ‘this great phantom composed of darkness and light’. This original treatment of the belle époque is couched in language accessible to all who wish to explore Paris on foot or from an armchair.
Author : Matthew Sturgis
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 865 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780525656364
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.
Author : Joseph Bristow
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780300222722
The most authoritative account of a pivotal event in legal and cultural history: the trials of Oscar Wilde on charges of "gross indecency" Among the most infamous prosecutions of a literary figure in history, the two trials of Oscar Wilde for committing acts of "gross indecency" occurred at the height of his fame. After being found guilty, Wilde spent two years in prison, emerged bankrupt, and died in a cheap hotel room in Paris a few years after his release. The trials prompted a new intolerance toward homosexuality: habits of male bonding that were previously seen as innocent were now viewed as a threat, and an association grew in the public mind between gay men and the arts. Oscar Wilde on Trial assembles accounts from a variety of sources, including official and private letters, newspaper accounts, and previously published (but very incomplete) transcripts, to provide the most accurate and authoritative account to date of events that were pivotal in both legal and cultural history.
Author : Sophie Geoffroy,Amanda Gagel
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781003830023
Vernon Lee was the pen name of Violet Paget – a prolific author best known for her supernatural fiction, her support of the Aesthetic Movement and her radical polemics. She was an active correspondent who included many well-known figures among her circle. This scholarly edition of her letters makes a selection from more than 30 archives worldwide.
Author : Percy Fitzgerald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Bibliographical literature
ISBN : NYPL:33433067300651
Author : Grace Horowitz Schwartz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1036830556
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X004198469
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 123022565X
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... ACTnL come here. Night after night, when every street was filled with spies, every house with traitors. Delicately nurtured like a king's son, he has dwelt among us. PRESIDENT Ay! under a false name. He lied to us at the beginning. He lies to us now at the end. VERA I swear he is true. There is not a man here who does not owe him his life a thousand times. When the bloodhounds were on us that night, who saved us from arrest, torture, flogging, death, but he ye seek to kill? MICHAEL' To kill all tyrants is our mission! VERA He is no tyrant. I know him well! He loves the people. PRESIDENT We know him too; he is a traitor. VERA A traitor! Three days ago he could have betrayed every man of you here, and the ACT gibbet would have been your doom. He gave you all your lives once. Give him a little time--a week, a month, a few days; but now!--O God, not now! CONSPIRATORS [Brandishing daggers.] To-night! to-night! to-night! VERA Peace, you gorged adders I peace! MICHAEL What, are we not here to annihilate? Shall we not keep our oath? VERA Your oath! your oath! Greedy that you are of gain, every man's hand lusting for his neighbour's pelf, every heart set on pillage and rapine; who, of ye all, if the crown were set on his head, would give an empire up for the mob to scramble for? The people are not yet fit for a republic in Russia. PRESIDENT Every nation is fit for a republic. ACT III. MICHAEL The man is a tyrant VERA A tyrant! Hath he not dismissed his evil counsellors. That ill-omened raven of his father's life hath had his wings clipped and his claws pared, and comes to us croaking for revenge. Oh, have mercy on him I Give him a week to live! PRESIDENT Vera, pleading for a king I VERA [Proudly.] I plead not for a king, but for a brother....
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:49015002154467
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : English literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106005479495
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1039420202
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951D010950694
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : General Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1458984427
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: OSCAR WILDE IN AMERICA. An interesting account of Oscar Wilde, at the time of his American tour, was given in the Lady's Pictorial a few weeks after his arrival in New York, the city which he described as one huge Whiteley's shop. lie was interviewed in a room which was intensely warm and the sofa on which the poet reclined was drawn up to the fire. An immense wolf rug, bordered with scarlet, was thrown over it and half-encircled his graceful form in its warm embrace. Wilde was wearied. In a languid, half enervated manner he gently sipped hot chocolate from a cup by his side. Occasionally he inhaled a long, deep whiff from a smouldering cigarette held lightly in his white and shapely hand. He was attired in a smoking suit of dark 263 brown velvet faced with lapels of red quilted silk. The ends of a long dark necktie floated over the facing like sea-weed on foam tinged by the dying sun. Dark brown nether garments, striped with red up the seam, and patent leather shoes with light cloth uppers completed the rest of the poet's costume. His favourite colour is said to have been something between brown and green, a tint that never was on sea or sky, and he had a complete suit made of it. A white walking-stick which he was in the habit of carrying was presented to him at the Acropolis and was said to have been cut from the olive groves of the Academia. Only in the evening was he wont to don knee breeches, but evening and morning alike, adds his interviewer, find him neither more nor less than a man, and always a perfect gentleman. Long masses of dark brown hair, parted in the middle, fell in odd curves of beauty over his broad shoulders. He wore neither beard nor moustache. The full, rather sensuous lips, now pressed close together with momentary tension, now pa...
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 957 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : CTK.
ISBN : OCLC:802626489
