The Wilde Years

COAKLEY, DAVIS: OSCAR WILDE - the importance of being Irish, Dublin Town House 1995 ; weicher Einband / soft cover; sig.; 1. Ed. ISBN: 1860590020
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Cover design: Wendy Williams. This is the first biography of Oscar Wilde that explores how his Irish background had a major impact on his life and writings. Contents: 1). Sir William and Lady Wilde. 2). A name of high distinction. 3). 21 Westland Row. 4). Life on Merrion Square. 5). A Dublin salon. 6). Portora Royal school. 7). Revelations. 8). The west of Ireland. 9). Victorian Dublin. 10). Trinity College Dublin. 11). Expanding years. 12). Turbulent years. 13). 'A most recalcitrant patriot'. 14). Beyond pathos. 44 illustrations. With epilogue, appendix, notes, bibliography and index. X + 246 pag. Signed by the author First paperback edition Paperback 19,5cmx13cm; First paperback edition

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Schwarze, Florian: Ironie in Oscar Wildes "The importance of beeing Ernest" Akademische Schriftenreihe, Bd. V161784, GRIN VERLAG, November 2010, Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 3640753232
Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English - Literature, Works, printed single-sided, grade: 2,3, University of Koblenz-Landau (Anglistik), language: English, abstract: It is impossible to imagine living without irony in our everyday life. Irony as a form of linguistic indirectness has become a phenomenon in recent years. It is used by, no matter what age or social group in our speaking, writing and literature. The term irony derives etymologically from the Greek word eironeia and actually means adjustment, escape, or especially lack of seriousness. But another significant element is being added, which is making fun of someone. So if you call someone a hero, who just ran away from something harmless, you do not mean it literally, you indirectly try to express the opposite. Actually you would have said, that he is a total coward. But exactly that is what makes a definition of the term irony so difficult, because it is not always exactly the opposite when you are ironic; sometimes it just means something else. If we now start from this explanation of the term, you could assume that something ironic is almost a lie, as someone who uses irony wants to express something else than he actually says. It is not a lie because when you lie you try your best nobody realizes your being untrue. When someone is ironic, the intention is to let the other person notice this. Thus irony is transparent where a lie is, at least, opaque. The second major difference is the intention to deceive which is constitutive for the lie, but not when you use irony. You also can not compare irony with mockery; mockery always tries to hurt someone directly, irony in contrast always is detached and uses some kind of adjustment.In this work I will try to define irony and try to find and analyze some of the ironic passages from Oscar Wilde's comedy The Importance of Being Earnest.The eccentric Oscar Wilde, who lived from 1854 until 1900 was one of the leading representatives of the aesthetic movement of L'art pour l'art, which tried to aestheticize all areas of life. Wilde, who lived the life of a perfect dandy, deliberately bended the norms of the Victorian era.In 1895, at the peak of his career, he was sentenced to two years of hard labour, because of homosexual practices. This verdict ended in his financial and social ruin. After his release Wilde emigrated to Paris where he died on the 30th Nov 1900.In his works, including The Importance of Being Earnest, Wilde criticized the bigotry and the exaggerated morality of the English society at this time.

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Andrews, Allen. The Splendid Pauper. New York, New York, U.S.A.: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1968. ISBN: 0670765783

First edition 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. FIRST EDITION. 255 pages. The book is in VERY GOOD++ condition with wear to boards edges. The jacket is in VERY GOOD condition with minor wear. NOT price-clipped. NOT remaindered. Comes with a BRODART cover. JMVINTAGE specializes in Books, Magazines and Treasures related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and..other curious subjects. The dust jacket reads: "There never was a man who failed so magnificently at so many schemes in so many countries as did Winston Churchill's outrageously unsuccessful uncle, Moreton Frewen. The second son of an ancient English family, he was an unquenchable optimist, prolific in ideas, adroit at separating friends from their money. In 1878, Frewen came to America, married Clara Jerome, sister of Lady Randolph Churchill, set up as a rancher in Wyoming, and immediately lost his English backers fortune. THE SPLENDID PAUPER is the story of Moreton Frewen (who came to be called 'Mortal Ruin' by his unfortunate financial partners)-his fiscal acrobatics, his friendships with princes and presidents, his weird and wonderful ideas. He was truly visionary, forecasting the Panama Canal, thirty-five years before its completion and staunchly advocating the Saint Lawrence Seaway seventy-four years before its time. His stage embraced the whole of nineteenth-century frontier America; the Atlantic, which he crossed on hundred times; and England. Indeed one might say the world was his stage, for the action of THE SPLENDID PAUPER leaps from Wyoming to London, New York, Washington, India, Mexico, Australia, Kenya, and Canada. His coplayers included Lily Langtry, Oscar Wilde, P.T. Barnum, Bat Masterson, General Phil Sheridan, Stephen Crane, Rudyard Kipling and a host of others. Rudyard Kipling said of him: 'He lived every sense except what is called common sense, very richly and widely, to his own extreme content,' for despite his nearly unbroken record of fiscal failure, he lived a happy life. And this vivid account of Moreton Frewen's sometimes perilous, sometimes rollicking, often 'stranger than fiction,' adventure will entertain and cheer everyone who reads it." Hard Cover condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

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Samuels, Ernest. Bernard Berenson : The Making of a Connoisseur. Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.: Harvard University Press, 1979. ISBN: 0674067754

First edition FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. 477 pages with index. Illustrated. The book is in VERY GOOD -- a small dent to bottom back board edge--cloth punctured. A very tight, bright copy. . The dust jacket is VERY GOOD with chipping/tearing to top edge near spine. JMVintage specializes in books, magazines and other treasures related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor..and other curious subjects. Dust jacket reads: "Critic, arbiter of taste, renowned authority on Renaissance painting and oracle to millionaire art collectors, Bernard Berenson was the most formidable presence in the Anglo-American art world for more than thirty years. His Villa I Tatti near Florence was a magnet for European and American intellectuals; he ws able to say, late in life, that most of the Italian paintings that had come to the United States had 'my visa on their passport.' Twenty years after his death he remains a paradoxical figure--fit challenge for a Pulitzer-Prize-winning author..No less fascinating than Berenson's own development, and that shaped his career, are his relations with an extraordinary cast of characters whose lives impinged on his--among them George Santayana, William James, Bertrand Russell, Logan Pearsall Smith, Norman and Hutchins Hapgood, Oscar Wilde, Vernon Lee, the Michael Fields, Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, Roger Fry, and, most notably, the fabled Mrs. Jack Garner. His relationship with Mary Smith Costelloe, who left her husband and children for him and eventually became his wife, was so close that the book is almost as much her story as his." Hard Copy condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

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