Oscar: 1500 books

Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray ist der einzige Roman des irischen Schriftstellers Oscar Wilde. Eine erste Fassung erschien 1890 in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine aus Philadelphia, 1891 wurde bei dem Londoner Verlag Ward, Lock and Co. die heute bekannte, überarbeitete und erweiterte Fassung in Buchform...

The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a work of poetry by Oscar Wilde, written in exile either in Berneval-le-Grand or in Dieppe, France, after his release from Reading Gaol (pronounced "redding jail") on 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading, after being convicted of homosexual offences...

"Le Crime de Lord Arthur Savile (Étude de devoir)" est une nouvelle de Oscar Wilde, parue pour la première fois en 1887, l’œuvre est une satire de la noblesse victorienne. Le personnage principal de ce récit, Lord Arthur Savile, est présenté, à l'occasion d'une soirée donnée...

J'avais dîné avec Erskine dans sa jolie petite maison de Bird Cage Walk et nous étions assis dans sa bibliothèque, buvant notre café et fumant des cigarettes, quand nous en vînmes à causer des faux en littérature.  Maintenant je ne me souviens...

Pall Mall Gazette, 8 août 1887.    La plupart des romanciers russes regardent le roman historique comme un faux genre, comme une sorte de bal travesti littéraire, comme une simple représentation de marionnettes, et non comme une peinture vraie de la vie.  Pourtant,...

Salomé est une tragédie d'Oscar Wilde dont la version originale de 1891 est en français. Une traduction en anglais a suivi trois ans plus tard. La pièce, en un acte, repose sur l'épisode biblique de Salomé1, belle-fille du tétrarque de Galilée Hérode Antipas, qui, à la consternation...

Un ministre américain et sa famille achètent à Lord Canterville son château et tout ce qu’il contient… fantôme compris. Mais la famille Otis n’a vraiment pas peur des fantômes. Alors, lorsqu’un spectre qui a l’habitude de terroriser tout le monde se trouve confronté à deux jumeaux...

Does this sound like you? •Falling asleep at work? •Tired all the time? •Easily irritated? •Spouse complains about your snoring? Then you may have sleep apnea! According to the National Sleep Foundation more than 18 million adults in America have sleep apnea, many of...

If you’re ready to break free from spiritual stagnation, Jesus is ready—and His church needs you!    What if Christians weren’t sticks in the mud but agents of Spirit-driven change in a downtrodden world? Imagine if God’s people once again took up His mission to bring the gospel of life...

Guido [Taking a letter from his pocket and reading it.] ‘The hour noon; the city, Padua; the place, the market; and the day, Saint Philip’s Day.’ Ascanio And what of the man, how shall we know him? Guido [reading still] ‘I will wear a violet cloak with a silver falcon broidered on the shoulder.’...

When a palm-reader reveals that Lord Arthur Savile’s destiny is to be a murderer, Lord Arthur sets out to commit the crime so that he might marry without impediment. But was murder truly Lord Arthur’s destiny or did it only seem to be so because of the palm-reader’s suggestion? Victorian...

Of important historical notoriety, this Go guide is a must-have for enthusiasts of this ancient Asian strategy game Oscar Korschelt's treatise on the game of Go was the first published at the end of the nineteenth century, but fell into obscurity until the editors Samuel King and George Leckie...

Oscar Harkavy offers a unique insider's view of the fascinating world of population politics. Chapters trace the growth of the movement as well as the various foundations, governments, and intergovernmental organizations which were an integral part of it from its beginning in the 1950s, through its...

If you love historical thrillers, this novel will cut your breath from the beginning. Anchored in remote medieval origins and using a genetic distinctive feature as a red thread, the story starts in a castle in Nazi Germany, a SS training and command center. The plot leads first to Antarctica...