The Importance Of Being Earnest Royal Collector S Edition Case Laminate Hardcover With Jacket

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Royal Classics
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1774762471

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The Importance of Being Earnest (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) by Oscar Wilde Pdf

The Importance of Being Earnest is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personæ to escape burdensome social obligations. The major themes are the triviality of marriage, and the satire of Victorian ways.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : SF Classic
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1774378353

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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) by Oscar Wilde Pdf

Dorian Gray is the subject of a full-length portrait in oil by Basil Hallward, an artist who is impressed and infatuated by Dorian's beauty; he believes that Dorian's beauty is responsible for the new mode in his art as a painter. Through Basil, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, and he soon is enthralled by the aristocrat's hedonistic worldview: that beauty and sensual fulfilment are the only things worth pursuing in life. Newly understanding that his beauty will fade, Dorian expresses the desire to sell his soul, to ensure that the picture, rather than he, will age and fade. The wish is granted, and Dorian pursues a libertine life of varied and amoral experiences; all the while his portrait ages and records every soul-corrupting sin. This case laminate collector's edition includes a Victorian inspired dust-jacket.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798745930843

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The Importance of Being Earnest Classic Annotated Editions (Signet Classics) by Oscar Wilde Pdf

"The Importance of Being Earnest A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae to escape burdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play's major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage, and the resulting satire of Victorian ways. Some contemporary reviews praised the play's humour and the culmination of Wilde's artistic career, while others were cautious about its lack of social messages. Its high farce and witty dialogue have helped make The Importance of Being Earnest Wilde's most enduringly popular play."

Author : Robert Chetwyn,Flora Robson,Isabel Jeans,Daniel Massey,John Standing,Robert Eddison,Pauline Collins,Helen Weir,Haymarket Theatre (London, England)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Theater
ISBN : OCLC:754805399

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The Importance of Being Earnest by Robert Chetwyn,Flora Robson,Isabel Jeans,Daniel Massey,John Standing,Robert Eddison,Pauline Collins,Helen Weir,Haymarket Theatre (London, England) Pdf

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : England
ISBN : HARVARD:32044004648986

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The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Pdf

Subtitled “A Trivial Comedy for Serious People,” Wilde’s play is a brilliantly satirical comedy of manners, sending up the absurdity of Victorian social mores and cleverly critiquing the conventions of love and marriage. The tale of two gentlemen who adopt fictitious identities in order to woo the objects of their affections is Wilde’s most beloved work, considered to be one of the wittiest plays ever written in English. The glowing critical reception in London on opening night at the St. James Theater in 1895 marked the high point of Wilde’s career as a writer.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Prestwick House Inc
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Drama
ISBN : 158049580X

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The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Pdf

This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and reader!=s notes to help the modern reader appreciate Wilde's wry wit and elaborate plot twists.Oscar Wilde's madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers? entanglements still delights readers more than a century after its 1895 publication and premiere performance. The rapid-fire wit and eccentric characters of The Importance of Being Earnest have made it a mainstay of the high school curriculum for decades.Cecily Cardew and Gwendolen Fairfax are both in love with the same mythical suitor. Jack Worthing has wooed Gewndolen as Ernest while Algernon has also posed as Ernest to win the heart of Jack's ward, Cecily. When all four arrive at Jack's country home on the same weekend'the "rivals" to fight for Ernest's undivided attention and the "Ernests" to claim their beloveds'pandemonium breaks loose.Only a senile nursemaid and an old, discarded hand-bag can save the day

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Samuel French , Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : England
ISBN : 0573701040

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The Importance of Being Earnest (Full) by Oscar Wilde Pdf

Probably the wittiest comedy in the English language. To avoid various social responsibilities, Jack Worthing has invented an irresponsible younger brother named Earnest.

Author : Thomas de Quincey
Publisher : Gottfried & Fritz
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey Pdf

A book about opium usage and the effects of addiction on the authors life.

Author : Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : African Americans
ISBN : HARVARD:HWPA9R

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Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe Pdf

Author : Clinton Heylin
Publisher : Omnibus Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780857122179

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Bootleg! The Rise And Fall Of The Secret Recording Industry by Clinton Heylin Pdf

An absorbing account of the record industry's worst nightmare. In the summer of 1969, Great White Wonder, a collection of unreleased Bob Dylan recordings appeared in Los Angeles. It was the first rock bootleg and it spawned an entire industry dedicated to making unofficial recordings available to true fans. Bootleg! tells the whole fascinating saga, from its underground infancy through the CD 'protection gap' era, when its legal status threatened the major labels' monopoly, to the explosion of trading via Napster and Gnutella on MP-3 files. Clinton Heylin provides a highly readable account of the busts, the defeats and victories in court; the personalities – many interviewed for the first time for this book. This classic history has now been updated and revised to include today's digital era and the emergence of a whole new bootleg culture.

Author : Anna-Brigitte Schlittler,Katharina Tietze
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839457382

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Bally - A History of Footwear in the Interwar Period by Anna-Brigitte Schlittler,Katharina Tietze Pdf

Carl Franz Bally founded a shoe factory in Switzerland in 1851. Within decades, the Bally name had achieved worldwide recognition for its high-quality footwear. The history of modern footwear can be traced through the lens of Bally's corporate evolution. This book brings together the results of research on such topics as the economic importance of fashion, Bally's fortunes in the US, the career of shoe design, the sourcing and use of materials, and the rise of strategic product display. The research focuses on the 1930s and 1940s: years of economic crisis and war, characterized by a wide diversity of designs and increasing variety in product range. Shortages also led to experiments with materials and technical innovations. Featuring numerous points of contact with adjacent fields of historical study, this publication marks a contribution to the history of fashion as the history of industrially manufactured products.

Author : Livy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Rome
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005384214

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The History of Rome by Livy Pdf

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9791041803972

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Suspiria de Profundis by Thomas De Quincey Pdf

The Suspiria is a collection of prose poems, or what De Quincey called “impassioned prose,” erratically written and published starting in 1854. Each Suspiria is a short essay written in reflection of the opium dreams De Quincey would experience over the course of his lifetime addiction, and they are considered by some critics to be some of the finest examples of prose poetry in all of English literature. De Quincey originally planned them as a sequel of sorts to his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, but the first set was published separately in Blackwood’s Magazine in the spring and summer of that 1854. De Quincey then published a revised version of those first Suspiria, along with several new ones, in his collected works. During his life he kept a master list of titles of the Suspiria he planned on writing, and completed several more before his death; those that survived time and fire were published posthumously in 1891.

Author : Henry Gilmer Wilhelm,Carol Brower
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Photography
ISBN : UOM:39015026917727

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The Permanence and Care of Color Photographs by Henry Gilmer Wilhelm,Carol Brower Pdf

Reference source for the care and preservation of photographs and motion picture film. Evaluates the light fading and dark fading/yellowing characteristics of color transparency films, color negative films, and color photographic papers, with recommendations for the longest-lasting products. High-resolution ink jet, dye sublimation, color electrophotographic, and other digital imaging technologies are discussed, as are conservation matting, mount boards, framing, slide pages, negative and print enclosures, storage boxes, densitometric monitoring of black-and-white and color prints in museum and archive collections, the care of color slide collections, the permanent preservation of color motion pictures, the preservation of cellulose nitrate films, and many other topics.

Author : Leatrice Eiseman,Keith Recker
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780811877565

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Pantone: The Twentieth Century in Color by Leatrice Eiseman,Keith Recker Pdf

Pantone, the worldwide color authority, invites you on a rich visual tour of 100 transformative years. From the Pale Gold (15-0927 TPX) and Almost Mauve (12-2103 TPX) of the 1900 Universal Exposition in Paris to the Rust (18-1248 TPX) and Midnight Navy (19-4110 TPX) of the countdown to the Millennium, the 20th century brimmed with color. Longtime Pantone collaborators and color gurus Leatrice Eiseman and Keith Recker identify more than 200 touchstone works of art, products, d cor, and fashion, and carefully match them with 80 different official PANTONE color palettes to reveal the trends, radical shifts, and resurgences of various hues. This vibrant volume takes the social temperature of our recent history with the panache that is uniquely Pantone.