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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 ..
Vera; or the Nihilists
by Oscar WildeVera; or, The Nihilists is a play by Oscar Wilde. It is a melodramatic tragedy set in Russia and is loosely based on the life of Vera Zasulich. It was Wilde's first play, and the first to be performed. In 1880, with only a few copies privately printed, arrangements were made with noted actresses for a production in the United Kingdom, but this neve..
House of the Dead
by Fyodor DostoyevskyThe House of the Dead is a semi-autobiographical novel published in 1860–2 in the journal Vremya by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, which portrays the life of convicts in a Siberian prison camp. The novel has also been published under the titles Memoirs from the House of The Dead, Notes from the Dead House (or Notes from a Dead House), and N..
Uncle's Dream
by Fyodor DostoyevskyUncle's Dream is an 1859 novella by Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky. Dostoyevsky's writing is highly colourful and theatrical. The stories were not so interesting themselves but their context as well as the rhythm of the writing compel me to read it until the end...
Double: A Petersburg Poem
by Fyodor DostoyevskyThe Double is a novella written by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published on January 30, 1846 in the Fatherland Notes. It was subsequently revised and republished by Dostoevsky in 1866.The Double centers on a government clerk who goes mad. It deals with the internal psychological struggle of its main character, Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, who rep..
Alarms and Discursions
by G. K. ChestertonIn this collection, Chesterton the master essayist – and master discursionist – moves easily from the mirthful to the magnificent, observing that poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese, that Futurists don’t know a damn thing, and that England is the only place you can find Weather. He has us watch a neighbor’s house being buil..