Jack the Bodiless (Galactic Milieu Trilogy Ser., 1)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

MAY, JULIAN

Fantasy

Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated

Book, All Pages & Pop-Ups, CD & Inserts Are Like New

The Music Pack

Arts & Photography

Van Der Meer, Ron

Berkeley, Michael

Music

In the Kitchen with Rosie: Oprah's Favorite Recipes

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Daley, Rosie

Cooking by Ingredient

An inside look at the CIA, Central Intelligence Agency.

The CIA and the cult of intelligence / by Victor Marchetti and John D. Marks ; introduction by Melvin Wulf

Politics & Social Sciences

Marks, John D.

Marchetti, Victor

Politics & Government

THE FATE OF THE EARTH JONATHAN SCHELL

The Fate Of The Earth

Engineering & Transportation

Schell, Jonathan

Engineering

In this long-awaited bioraphy, Wilde the legendary Victorian - brilliant writer and conversationalist, reckless flouter of social and sexual conventions - is brought to life. More astute and forbearing, yet more fallible than legend has allowed, Wilde is given here the dimensions of a modern hero. Based on fresh material from many hitherto-untapped sources, Ellmann depicts Wilde's comet-like ascent on the Victorian scene and his equally dramatic sudden eclipse. His Irish background, the actresses to whom he paid court, his unfortunate wife and lovers, his clothes, coiffures, and the decor of his rooms - all are presented here in vivid detail. The saga of his 1882 American tour is recounted with a wealth of new details; also his later impact on the bastions of the French literary establishment. The London of the Nineties, of Whistler and the Pre-Raphaelites, Lillie Langtry and the Prince of Wales, is evoked alongside Paris of the "belle epoque" and the Greece, Italy and North Africa of Wilde's travels. Ellmann's definitive critical account of Wilde's entire oeuvre shows him as the proponent of a radical new aesthetic who was perilously at odds with Victorian society. After his period of success and daring, the fatal love affair with Lord Alfred Douglas is followed by exposure, imprisonment, a few wretched years abroad and death in exile. The tragic end of Wilde's life leaves the reader with a sense of compassion and grief for the protagonist. This edition make the popular and best selling biography available in paperback for the first time.

Oscar Wilde

ELLMANN, RICHARD

Biographies & Memoirs

A photographer on a visit to a house featured in a magazine he works for, discovers that a Cezanne painting has been stolen from there. With the editor of the magazine as the suspect thief, he is sent on pursuit of her and the Cezanne through London, the South of France and New York.

Chasing Cézanne

MAYLE, PETER

Essays: The Writer and the World

Literature & Fiction

Naipaul; V.S.

Mishra, Pankaj (editor)

Essays & Correspondence

Smiley's people

Le Carre', John

Contemporary

The Queen: The Life of Elizabeth II

LONGFORD, Elizabeth

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