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Bartleby, the Scrivener
by Herman MelvilleHerman Melville's short fiction work Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street deals with psychological effects of an employee who works in dead letter office. Bartleby was hired by a Manhattan lawyer, to copy legal documents. His aggressive and quality work start deteriorating day by day to the point he stops working. Days passed he continue..
Benito Cereno
by Herman MelvilleBenito Cereno is a novella by Herman Melville, a fictionalized account about the revolt on a Spanish slave ship captained by Don Benito Cereno, first published in three installments in Putnam's Monthly in 1855. The tale, slightly revised, was included in his short story collection The Piazza Tales that appeared in May 1856. According to scholar Mer..
An Ideal Husband
by Oscar WildeOscar Wilde's comedy An Ideal Husband explores the morality in politics and public life. Lady Chiltern is proudly thinking, she married an Ideal Husband Sir Robert Chiltern, a politican with clean image. Chilton's classmate Mrs. Cheveley blackmails Robert with a solid proof that he leaked a secret governmet record for financial gains. Though his fa..
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
by Oscar WildeThe Happy Prince, and Other Tales is a collection of short stories written by Irish playwright Oscar Wilde. Primarily dealing with love and selfishness, this children's stories teaches moral for the young readers. The Happy Prince explores the greedy humans, when the Prince who is a statue now asks the valuable thinks from his body and ending up in..
Aphorisms
by Oscar WildeMiscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man Quotes (showing 1-30 of 86) “The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.”. ... “Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious...
Lady Windermere's Fan
by Oscar WildeLady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman is a four-act comedy by Oscar Wilde, first produced on Saturday, 20 February 1892, at the St James's Theatre in London. The story concerns Lady Windermere, who suspects that her husband is having an affair with another woman. She confronts him with it but although he denies it, he invites the other w..
A Florentine Tragedy and La Sainte Courtisane
by Oscar WildeA Florentine Tragedy is a fragment of a never-completed play by Oscar Wilde. The subject concerns Simone, a wealthy 16th-century Florentine merchant who finds his wife Bianca in the arms of a local prince, Guido Bardi. After feigning hospitality, Simone challenges the interloper to a duel, disarms him, and strangles him. This awakens the affection ..
A House Of Pomegranates
by Oscar WildeA House of Pomegranates is a collection of fairy tales, written by Oscar Wilde, that was published in 1891 as a second collection for The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888). Wilde once said that this collection was "intended neither for the British child nor the British public.The stories included in this collection are as follows:1. The Young Kin..