Author: | Oscar Wilde | ISBN: | 1230000426503 |
Publisher: | Media Galaxy | Publication: | May 13, 2015 |
Imprint: | Language: | English |
Author: | Oscar Wilde |
ISBN: | 1230000426503 |
Publisher: | Media Galaxy |
Publication: | May 13, 2015 |
Imprint: | |
Language: | English |
Oscar Wills Wilde (1854 – 1900) was an Irish author, playwright and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he started to consider one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Oscar Wilde created an astonishing amount of work, genius, and controversy into two short decades, producing masterworks in every literary genre. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. Oscar Wilde created an astonishing amount of work, genius, and controversy into two short decades, producing masterworks in every literary genre.The Sphinx without a Secret centers around two college friends, who, after not seeing each other in ten years, meet by chance in Paris. The first is our narrator, who notices that his friend, Gerald Murchison, is much changed and concludes his problem must be a woman.So, he proceeds to ask his friend about it, who shares his tale over dinner. It all begins when Murchison shows a photograph of a beautiful woman, and he asks, ‘does she look trustworthy? It is not an ordinary question and what is the answer you will know at the end of the story.
Oscar Wills Wilde (1854 – 1900) was an Irish author, playwright and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he started to consider one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Oscar Wilde created an astonishing amount of work, genius, and controversy into two short decades, producing masterworks in every literary genre. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. Oscar Wilde created an astonishing amount of work, genius, and controversy into two short decades, producing masterworks in every literary genre.The Sphinx without a Secret centers around two college friends, who, after not seeing each other in ten years, meet by chance in Paris. The first is our narrator, who notices that his friend, Gerald Murchison, is much changed and concludes his problem must be a woman.So, he proceeds to ask his friend about it, who shares his tale over dinner. It all begins when Murchison shows a photograph of a beautiful woman, and he asks, ‘does she look trustworthy? It is not an ordinary question and what is the answer you will know at the end of the story.