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    Sisters of Salome
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    Sisters of Salome

    The origins of the art of exotic dancing lie in English drama and Viennese opera: Oscar Wilde's 1893 play Salome, and Richard Strauss's 1905 opera based on it, brought onto the stage a female...
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    Watsonia
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    Watsonia

    A definitive anthology that captures the masterful Don Watson at his best - powerful, insightful and funny.No other writer has journeyed further into the soul of Australia and returned to tell the...
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  • Greek Epigram in Reception
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    Greek Epigram in Reception

    Greek Epigram in Reception is a chronological survey of the reception history of the Greek Anthology, a Byzantine collection of ancient Greek short poems known as epigrams. Tracing the strange...
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  • The Enchiridion of Wit The Enchiridion of Wit
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    The Enchiridion of Wit

    This book is a collection of the finest and funniest examples of English conversational wit. From the witticisms of Oscar Wilde to the clever quips of Dorothy Parker, readers will be entertained and...
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  • The House of the Vampire (Esprios Classics) The House of the Vampire (Esprios Classics)
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    The House of the Vampire (Esprios Classics)

    George Sylvester Viereck (December 31, 1884 - March 18, 1962) was a German-American poet, writer, and pro-German propagandist. George Viereck began writing poetry when he was eleven. His heroes were...
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  • Excess in Modern Irish Writing Excess in Modern Irish Writing
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    Excess in Modern Irish Writing

    This book examines the topic of excess in modern Irish writing in terms of mysticism, materialism, myth and language. The study engages ideas of excess as they appear in works by major thinkers from...
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  • Tendencies
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    Tendencies

    Tendencies brings together for the first time the essays that have made Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick "the soft-spoken queen of gay studies" (Rolling Stone). Combining poetry, wit, polemic, and dazzling...
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  • The Treasury of Modern Anecdote The Treasury of Modern Anecdote
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    The Treasury of Modern Anecdote

    This book is a collection of literary gems from some of the wittiest and most famous minds in history. It contains hundreds of anecdotes, jokes, and sayings that are sure to leave readers amused and...
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  • A Book of Plays A Book of Plays
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    A Book of Plays

    From classic dramas to modern comedies, this collection of plays has something for everyone. Featuring works by some of the greatest playwrights of all time, including William Shakespeare, Oscar...
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  • My Double Life My Double Life
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    My Double Life

    Die französische Schauspielerin Sarah Bernhardt war eine Ikone ihrer Zeit. In ihrer Autobiographie gibt sie Einblick in ihr Leben und ihre Karriere, und schildert ihre Begegnungen mit berühmten...
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  • Doubling for McQueen and Redford Doubling for McQueen and Redford
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    Doubling for McQueen and Redford

    Since Hollywood's first motion-picture, stunt players have given blood, sweat, and tears to the business. From high falls and horse gags to fist-fights, fire, water-work and automotive mayhem, this...
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  • A Disgraceful Affair A Disgraceful Affair
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    A Disgraceful Affair

    The short works of Dostoevsky exist in the very large shadow of his astonishing longer novels, but they too are among literature's most revered works and offer keys to understanding the themes in his...
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  • Bachelors of a different sort
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    Bachelors of a different sort

    The bachelor has long held an ambivalent, uncomfortable and even at times unfriendly position in society. This book carefully considers the complicated relationships between the modern queer bachelor...
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  • Bad Boy Brody Bad Boy Brody
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    Bad Boy Brody

    From the New York Times bestselling author Tijan comes a new stand alone romance.One punch took him from Hollywood’s Golden Boy to Bad Boy Brody.The media didn’t care he was grieving his...
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  • No Pulp in the Fiction No Pulp in the Fiction
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    No Pulp in the Fiction

    Q.T. - Quentin Tarantino: Gefeierter Kultregisseur, Oscar-prämierter Drehbuchautor, einflussreicher Filmemacher mit ungewöhnlich hohem Bekanntheitsgrad, der sogar mit dem von Schauspielstars...
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  • Filming Literature Filming Literature
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    Filming Literature

    This is a comprehensive survey of the relationship between film and literature. It looks at the cinematic adaptations of such literary masters as Shakespeare, Henry James, Joseph Conrad and D.H...
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  • The Stuff That Dreams Are Made on The Stuff That Dreams Are Made on
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    The Stuff That Dreams Are Made on

    Jung believed that great literature compensates for collective psychic imbalance, either by offering alternatives or by reflecting the imbalance. In this study, Snider explores Jung's theories by...
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  • Pit of Shame Pit of Shame
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    Pit of Shame

    A uniquely-sourced account of the life and times of one of the UK's most famous prisons - a fame that flows directly from an account of the execution of Trooper Charles Thomas Wooldridge (CTW) as...
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  • The secret vice
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    The secret vice

    The secret vice: Masturbation in Victorian fiction and medical culture provides a unique consideration of writings on self-abuse in the long nineteenth century. The book examines the discourse on...
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  • A WINTER NIGHT'S JOURNEY A WINTER NIGHT'S JOURNEY
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    A WINTER NIGHT'S JOURNEY

    This book is a wonder, and very unpredictable. As the life of a nameless traveler slips into the realm of the surreal, his dreams step forward, becoming the setting for the most profound of...
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  • A Treacherous Trade A Treacherous Trade
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    A Treacherous Trade

    "Forgive me...for I have sinned."And nothing interrupts a good confession like a murder.Fiona Mahoney stands in the ashes of her hopes facing her tempting adversary, Inspector Grayson Croft. Her sins...
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  • The Fiction of Evil The Fiction of Evil
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    The Fiction of Evil

    What makes someone an evil person? How are evil people different from merely bad people? Do evil people really exist? Can we make sense of evil people if we mythologize them? Do evil people take...
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  • The Model Millionaire The Model Millionaire
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    The Model Millionaire

    Playwright, poet, essayist, flamboyant man-about-town, Oscar Wilde pack an astonishing amount of work, genius, and controversy into two short decades, producing masterworks in every literary genre...
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    States of Desire

    This book is an intimate study of the three giants in Irish literary history: Oscar Wilde, William Butler Yeats, and James Joyce. In addition to constructing a narrative of Irelands political and...
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  • On Pain of Speech
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    On Pain of Speech

    On Pain of Speech tracks the literary rant, an expression of provocation and resistance that imagines the power to speak in its own name where no such right is granted. Focusing on the "politics of...
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  • Tales of the Fae Tales of the Fae
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    Tales of the Fae

    Return to the world of the Modern Fae in these four companion novellas, now available in print!Rogue AssassinsRescue the Queen. Don't lose your heart.Sorcha and Bryn team up with a pair of gargoyle...
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  • Victorian demons
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    Victorian demons

    Victorian demons provides the first extensive exploration of largely middle-class masculinities in crisis at the fin de siecle. It analyses how ostensibly controlling models of masculinity became...
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  • La Plume, Volume 4... La Plume, Volume 4...
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    La Plume, Volume 4...

    Découvrez le quatrième volume de La Plume, une revue française d'art et de littérature du XIXe siècle. Cette revue accueille les plus grands écrivains et artistes de l'époque tels que Oscar Wilde et...
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  • We touched our souls before the skin We touched our souls before the skin
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    We touched our souls before the skin

    The journey of the two people deeply in love is beautifully crafted in this book. Love is truly what makes the ride worthwhile is the driving message.Though the monotony and the mundane schedule of...
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  • Lord Arthur Savile's Crime And Other Stories (1891) Lord Arthur Savile's Crime And Other Stories (1891)
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    Lord Arthur Savile's Crime And Other Stories (1891)

    Lord Arthur Savile�������s Crime and Other Stories is a collection of short stories written by Oscar Wilde and first published in 1891. The title story, Lord Arthur Savile�������s Crime, follows the...
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  • The Book of Humour, Wit, and Wisdom The Book of Humour, Wit, and Wisdom
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    The Book of Humour, Wit, and Wisdom

    This delightful collection of aphorisms, anecdotes, and witty sayings is the perfect companion for any dinner party, coffee house, or salon. With contributions from some of history's greatest minds,...
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  • Great Plays (English) Great Plays (English)
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    Great Plays (English)

    A collection of classic English plays, including works by William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, and George Bernard Shaw. O'Connor provides introductions to each play, contextualizing them within the...
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  • Spectrum of Decadence (Routledge Revivals) Spectrum of Decadence (Routledge Revivals)
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    Spectrum of Decadence (Routledge Revivals)

    The 1890s, the Naughty Nineties, was an exciting and flamboyant time in British life and literature. First published in 1993, this title traces the genesis of the literary culture of the 1890s...
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  • Humorvolle Geistergeschichten Humorvolle Geistergeschichten
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    Humorvolle Geistergeschichten

    Humorvolle Geistergeschichten, Uebersetzung und Ueberarbeitung des 1921 in New York und London erschienenen Buches Humorous Ghost Stories von Dorothy Scarborough.Neunzehn ausgewaehlte Geschichten,...
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  • Cheiro's Book of Numbers Cheiro's Book of Numbers
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    Cheiro's Book of Numbers

    As mentioned in his memoirs, Cheiro acquired his expertise in India. As a teenager, he traveled to the Bombay port of Apollo Bunder. There, he met his Guru, an Indian Brahmin, who took him to his...
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  • The Cowboy and the Dandy The Cowboy and the Dandy
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    The Cowboy and the Dandy

    This dazzling, adventurous book begins in Colorado with Oscar Wilde. Wilde, observing a casino sign reading, Please don't shoot the piano player; he is doing his best, reflects: "I was struck with...
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