![]() ![]() Their feud came to a climax in court when Wilde sued for libel. Wilde was tipped off, and Queensberry was refused admission. The Marquess of Queensberry, whose son Lord Alfred Douglas was Wilde's lover, planned to present the writer with a bouquet of rotten vegetables and disrupt the show. The successful opening night marked the climax of Wilde's career but also heralded his downfall. ![]() Its high farce and witty dialogue have helped make The Importance of Being Earnest Wilde's most enduringly popular play. Some contemporary reviews praised the play's humour and the culmination of Wilde's artistic career, while others were cautious about its lack of social messages. ![]() Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play's major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage and the resulting satire of Victorian ways. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae to escape burdensome social obligations. The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. Allan Aynesworth as Algernon (left) and George Alexander as Jack ![]()
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Utterly unprepared for the weather and the isolation, but welcomed by the close-knit community, they fight to build a home in this harsh, beautiful wilderness.Īt once an epic story of human survival and love, and an intimate portrait of a family tested beyond endurance, The Great Alone offers a glimpse into a vanishing way of life in America. “Cora Allbright and her husband Ernt, a recently-returned Vietnam veteran scarred by the war, uproot their thirteen year old daughter Leni to start a new life in Alaska. ![]() ![]() ![]() While Cam’s mother and younger sister are awed by such anomalies as flamingos, snow in July and purple dandelions, the teen prepares for the inevitable by suppressing her wishes. Having exhausted Western medicine, her single mother suggests spending the summer after Cam’s graduation in Promise, Maine, a hidden town (with a secret entrance off of the Dunkin’ Donuts at Exit 33) known to have mysterious healing powers. ![]() Faced with death, one teen discovers life in this bittersweet debut.ĭespite growing up in Disney World with parents who performed in the “Spirit of Aloha” at the Polynesian Hotel, cynical and loner Campbell Cooper (an Italian-Samoan–American) gave up on magic after her parents divorced, her father died and she developed neuroblastoma (a cancer with low survival rates in adolescence). ![]() ![]() ![]() You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. ![]() Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. 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Some concern the general economic developments of the period: population increase, easily matched by extension of cereal cultivation, so that there were centuries of "sustained increase in the real income per head," along with rapid urbanization, representing "a new world and a new way of life." Others belong to that family of developments labeled by some historians "the feudal revolution" or "la mutation féodale": the rise, around the year 1000, of ruthless castle-based lords who fractured and seized public institutions, subordinated the rural population, and by streamlining their family structures created new patrilineal dynasties to enjoy the benefits of this new seigniorial power. ![]() Oxford and New York: Blackwell Publishers, 2000 ![]() ![]() ![]() Tim Curran's Long Black Coffin actually gave me shivers - yes, shivers - and that's something that hasn't happened in a very long time. 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This is a novel about a drug and alcohol addled young man from a broken home in Minnesota named Johnny Brede. If one assumes this is a thinly disguised version of Stephen King’s “Christine” then one must think again. “The Long Black Coffin” refers to a car, a 1967 GTO also known as a “Goat”. The book I just finished “The long Black Coffin” was published around 2012 by DarkFuse. Curran and his writing, he snuggly fits into that horror category of the seventies and eighties horror writer style. 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Voltaire concludes with Candide, if not rejecting optimism outright, advocating a deeply practical precept, "we must cultivate our garden", in lieu of the Leibnizian mantra of Pangloss, "all is for the best" in the "best of all possible worlds".Candide is characterised by its sarcastic tone as well as by its erratic, fantastical and fast-moving plot. The work describes the abrupt cessation of this lifestyle, followed by Candide's slow, painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world. ![]() It begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism (or simply "optimism") by his mentor, Professor Pangloss. The novella has been widely translated, with English versions titled Candide: or, All for the Best (1759) Candide: or, The Optimist (1762) and Candide: or, Optimism (1947). ![]() Candide is a French satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. ![]() ![]() ![]() Like Adolf Hitler he would have to be a leader of intuitive genius, a born demagogue in the original sense of the word, a believer in the supremacy of his race and his national destiny, an artist who knew how to gather the blazing light of history into his prism and then distort it to his ends, an embodiment of inflexible resolution who could impose his will and his imagination on his people…Such a man, if he existed, would be England’s last chance…” ![]() An embodiment of fading Victorian standards was wanted: a tribune for honor, loyalty, duty, and the supreme virtue of action one who would never compromise with iniquity, who could create a sublime mood and thus give men heroic visions of what they were and might become. A believer in martial glory was required, one who saw splendor in the ancient parades of victorious legions through Persepolis and could rally the nation to brave the coming German fury. ![]() “England’s new leader…would have to be a passionate Manichaean who saw the world as a medieval struggle to the death between the powers of good and the powers of evil, who held that individuals are responsible for their actions and that the German dictator was therefore wicked. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Sutras are also a wonderful introduction to the spiritual philosophy that is the foundation of yoga practise. The Sutras show the reader how we can transform ourselves through the practice of yoga, gradually developing the mind, body and emotions, so we can become spiritually evolved. BKS Iyengar has translated each one, and provided his own insightful commentary and explanation for modern readers. The Sutras are short and to the point – each being only a line or two long. ![]() They are amongst the world’s most revered and ancient teachings and are the earliest, most holy yoga reference. Patanjali wrote this collection of yoga wisdom over 2,000 years ago. This new edition of the classic text contains a new introduction by BKS Iyengar, as well as a foreword by Godfrey Devereux, author of Dynamic Yoga. ![]() BKS Iyengar’s translation and commentary on these ancient yoga sutras has been described as the “bible” of yoga. ![]() |