George Washington, Oscar Wilde, T.E. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Oliver Wendell Holmes, E.B. White, Vera Nabokov, J.P. Morgan — if any of these vivid predecessors still belong to us in some fragmented private way, it’s because of their letters or diaries (which are letters to ourselves...
Wilde withdrew his case but was himself arrested and convicted of gross indecency and sentenced to two years hard labor. Constance took the children to Switzerland and reverted to an old family name, "Holland." Upon his release, Oscar wrote "The Ballad of Reading Gaol", a response to the...
Geoffrey Chaucer'sCanterbury Talesnot only revolutionized English poetry—they're also extremely funny and moving. Oxford ProfessorMarion Turner, who has written the first full-length biography of Chaucer in a generation, tells us about the extraordinary man who wrote them and why we should all rea...
This fourth collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde includes the letters Wilde wrote while living in Berneval, in the months after his release from prison, and in Naples, where he shared a villa with his former lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. In a long letter to the editor of the Dail...
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.” This coming-of-age tale is a ...
By Oscar Wilde. Oscar Wilde was one of the most influential writers on art and design in the late 19th century. Alongside his acclaimed plays, novel and short stories, he wrote and lectured extensively on the subject. This exquisite centenary facsimile edition of a posthumous collection that wa...
这些名人包括:Oscar Wilde, Nicholas I of Russia, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nietzsche (who here wrote his Also sprach Zarathustra), Richard Wagner and many others. 即: 奥斯卡·王尔德,我非常喜欢的英国作家之一,我曾写过相关的书评,相关博文请见http://user.qzone.qq.com/285347392/blog/1267422812...
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. - Charles Caleb Colson A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. ...
Vita cared deeply for the medieval world and when she wrote King's Daughter (published in 1929) those in Bloomsbury Group circles knew the verses were of a sapphic nature addressed by one woman to another - the woman in question being Virginia Woolf who, with her husband Leonard Woolf, ...
Most issues are inscribed on the front covers with thanks and regards to Curt Bühler who, in 1960, wrote the definitive study of early books titled The Fifteenth-Century Book, the Scribes, the Printers, the Decorators. Some pages darkened, some edges brittle. Covers of a few volumes ...