Aubrey Beardsley : A Biography

Arts & Photography

Matthew Sturgis

Graphic Design

Harpercollins

Tosca the cat, shooed away from the fresh-baked treats, deprived of all her napping spots, and finally made to stay outside with the snowman, finds comfort only at the hands of a certain visitor from the North Pole. Reprint.

Tosca's Christmas (Picture Puffins)

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Puffin Books

Greatly in need of privacy for personal reasons, Tosca the cat searches the entire house and backyard before she finds the perfect spot

Tosca's Surprise (Picture Puffins)

Anne Mortimer

Children's Books

Puffin

Passionate Attitudes: The English Decadence of the 1890s

Oscar Wilde said "It is personalities, not principles, that move the Age". This was never more true than of the Decadent movement of the 1890s, which remains one of the most vivid periods of English culture. Wilde was its prophet, Dowson its poet, Symons its critic and Beerbohm its satirist. This book analyzes the movement through the eyes and ideas of the people involved observing their achievements and the destructiveness of their ideals in this study of the end of the last century. From its early roots in France, Stugis describes the flourishing of Decadence in this country to its self-fulfilling and inevitable decline.

History

Picador

Tosca's Christmas

Literature & Fiction

Frances Lincoln Childrens Books

It Ain't Necessarily So: Investigating the Truth of the Biblical Past

Ancient Civilizations

Headline Book Publishing

The fullest, most textural, most accurate--most human--account of Oscar Wilde's unique and dazzling life--based on extensive new research and newly discovered materials, from Wilde's personal letters and transcripts of his first trial to newly uncovered papers of his early romantic (and dangerous) escapades and the two-year prison term that shattered his soul and his life.\nSimply the best modern biography of Wilde. --Evening Standard\nDrawing on material that has come to light in the past thirty years, including newly discovered letters, documents, first draft notebooks, and the full transcript of the libel trial, Matthew Sturgis meticulously portrays the key events and influences that shaped Oscar Wilde's life, returning the man to his times, and to the facts, giving us Wilde's own experience as he experienced it.\nHere, fully and richly portrayed, is Wilde's Irish childhood; a dreamy, aloof boy; a stellar classicist at boarding school; a born entertainer with a talent for comedy and a need for an audience; his years at Oxford, a brilliant undergraduate punctuated by his reckless disregard for authority . . . his arrival in London, in 1878, already noticeable everywhere . . . his ten-year marriage to Constance Lloyd, the father of two boys; Constance unwittingly welcoming young men into the household who became Oscar's lovers, and dying in exile at the age of thirty-nine . . . Wilde's development as a playwright. . . becoming the high priest of the aesthetic movement; his successes . . . his celebrity. . . and in later years, his irresistible pull toward another--double--life, in flagrant defiance and disregard of England's strict sodomy laws (the blackmailer's charter); the tragic story of his fall that sent him to prison for two years at hard labor, destroying his life and shattering his soul.

Oscar: A Life

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Apollo

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