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Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman is a four-act comedy by Oscar Wilde, first performed on Saturday, 20 February 1892, at the St James's Theatre in London.
Author : Oscar Wilde
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Page : 146 pages
File Size : 38,45 MB
Release : 2020-09
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ISBN : 9789390230433
Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman is a four-act comedy by Oscar Wilde, first performed on Saturday, 20 February 1892, at the St James's Theatre in London.
Author : Oscar Wilde
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Page : 168 pages
File Size : 30,86 MB
Release : 2020-09
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ISBN : 9789390228065
Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman is a four-act comedy by Oscar Wilde, first performed 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 woman, Mrs Erlynne, to his wife's birthday ball. Angered by her husband's supposed unfaithfulness, Lady Windermere decides to leave her husband for another lover. After discovering what has transpired, Mrs Erlynne follows Lady Windermere and attempts to persuade her to return to her husband and in the course of this, Mrs Erlynne is discovered in a compromising position. It is then revealed Mrs Erlynne is Lady Windermere's mother, who abandoned her family twenty years before the time the play is set. Mrs Erlynne sacrifices herself and her reputation to save her daughter's marriage. Act IThe play opens in the morning room of the Windermeres' residence in London. It is tea time and Lady Windermere-who is preparing for her coming of age birthday ball that evening-has a visit from a friend, Lord Darlington. She shows off her new fan: a present from her husband. She explains to Lord Darlington that she is upset over the compliments he continues to pay to her, revealing that she is a Puritan and has very particular views about what is acceptable in society. The Duchess of Berwick calls and Lord Darlington leaves shortly thereafter. The Duchess informs Lady Windermere that her husband may be betraying her marriage by making repeated visits to another woman, a Mrs Erlynne, and possibly giving her large sums of money. These rumours have been gossip among London society for quite a while, though seemingly this is the first Lady Windermere has heard about it.
Author : Oscar Wilde
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Page : 27 pages
File Size : 21,45 MB
Release : 2017-12-20
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ISBN : 9781973595786
"...Oscar Wilde visited America in the year 1882. Interest in the Æsthetic School, of which he was already the acknowledged master, had sometime previously spread to the United States, and it is said that the production of the Gilbert and Sullivan opera, "Patience,"[1] in which he and his disciples were held up to ridicule, determined him to pay a visit to the States to give some lectures explaining what he meant by Æstheticism, hoping thereby to interest, and possibly to instruct and elevate our transatlantic cousins...."
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 22,20 MB
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3732658325
Reproduction of the original: Impressions of America by Oscar Wilde
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Delphi Classics
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 50,36 MB
Release : 2017-07-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1786561557
This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘Lady Windermere’s Fan’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Wilde includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘Lady Windermere’s Fan’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Wilde’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the textPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles
Author : Oscar Wilde
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Page : 36 pages
File Size : 50,30 MB
Release : 2021-01-20
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Oscar Wilde visited America in the year 1882. Interest in the Esthetic School, of which he was already the acknowledged master.
Author : Oscar Wilde
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Page : 304 pages
File Size : 35,1 MB
Release : 1909
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Author : Catherine Layton
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 25,10 MB
Release : 2018-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1527512924
This definitive biography depicts one Victorian woman’s struggle to stay afloat in a rising tide of prurient scandalmongering and snobbery. Could it be that this woman’s character and circumstances informed Oscar Wilde’s social comedies? She was the daughter of a leading Conservative Oxford don, vilified as an arrogant fortune-hunter. Her liaison dangereuse with a Duke resulted in ostracism by Queen Victoria’s cronies, as well as protracted, widely publicised legal disputes with his family. One battle put her in Holloway Gaol for six weeks. Her supporters, over time, included Disraeli, the Khedival family of Egypt, the de Lesseps, and Sir Albert Kaye Rollit (a promoter of women’s suffrage, later her third husband). Her life and that of her family drew in British and European colonialism, and even Reilly, the “Ace of Spies”. Various previously untapped letters, diaries and journals allow the reader to navigate through the sensationalist fog of the primarily Liberal press of her time. The book will appeal to anyone interested in Victorian and journalism history, and gender and celebrity studies.
Author : Paul Giles
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 15,44 MB
Release : 2006-11-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199206333
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Author : Connie Robertson
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 40,18 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781853267598
From Oscar Wilde's witty observation in Lady Windermere's Fan that 'I can resist everything except temptation', to Zsa Zsa Gabor's admission that 'I know nothing about sex, because I was always married', and by way of Woody Allen's numerous bon mots to the anonymous definition of psychiatry as being 'the care of the id by the odd', Connie Robertson has woven together a hilarious, stimulating and thought-provoking collection of the best humorous quotations which will provide the reader with much to ponder over long after the book has been put aside.The Wordsworth Book of Humorous Quotations will delight the browser and the simply curious while also providing the student, journalist and after-dinner speaker with a wealth of valuable material.