How many books did Oscar Wilde write?Oscar Wilde:Oscar Wilde was an Irish author who is mostly remembered today for his wit and his homosexuality. He wrote in a variety of genre, including plays, essays, poems, novels, and articles, although he was primarily known as a playwright....
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...
“You have to see these buildings with your own eyes to realize how good they are,” wrote Goethe. I went to see for myself, and The Perfect House is a sort of travel diary, describing visits to ten of his villas in the Veneto. What was Palladio’s secret? I won’t give away ...
“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 ...
Billy Shakes's reputation precedes him. But, for readers who are unaware, William Shakespeare is the world's most performed playwright, with productions happening constantly around the world. The Bard, as he is known, wrote near the peak of the English Renaissance, and many of his 35 plays ...
Dolfo wrote to Gonzaga he took great pride in what he himself called his perversion, especially liking *only* men without interest in women, so I think he would’ve loved the movement to Queer. The other great choice for Queer would, of course, be Il Sodoma, the artist who deliberately...
I wrote a lot about this book when it first came out as it captured much of my own dissatisfaction with an unholy alliance between church and state. It wasn’t just the far-out religious right, either: everywhere we went we heard the drums of war. I admired that Diana — a historian...
“it has been a popular meeting spot and a source of inspiration for poets and artists, with many beautiful poems written about its beauty and the surrounding area.” However Ferdowsi was a poet and wroteThe Shahnameh, one of the world’s longest epic poems (50,000+ couplets) and the ...
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 ...
Mainly I get into a groove of reading all the books an author wrote. Or the desire to immerse myself to learn about someone or place. Like when I went through my hip replacement, I decided I had to learn more about Hemingway. So, I read bios, and his earlier works. That lead to ...