Oscar Wilde And The Murders At Reading Gaol
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Oscar Wilde And The Murders At Reading Gaol
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Author : Gyles Brandreth
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2013-05-14
Oscar Wilde And The Murders At Reading Gaol written by Gyles Brandreth and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-14 with Fiction categories.
In this new installment in the engaging mystery series Booklist called “pitch-perfect” and “enthralling”—currently in development as a BBC television series—the incomparable playwright, novelist, raconteur, and now ex-convict Oscar Wilde faces his most fiendishly puzzling case yet. Oscar Wilde has fled to France after his release from Reading Gaol. Tonight he is sharing a drink and the story of his cruel imprisonment with a mysterious stranger. Oscar has endured the treadmill, solitary confinement, censored letters, no writing materials. Yet even in the midst of such deprivation, his astonishing detective powers remain undiminished—and when first a brutal warder and then the prison chaplain are found murdered, who else should the governor turn to for help other than Reading Gaol’s most celebrated inmate?
Oscar Wilde And The Murders At Reading Gaol
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Author : Gyles Brandreth
language : en
Publisher: Oscar Wilde Mystery
Release Date : 2013
Oscar Wilde And The Murders At Reading Gaol written by Gyles Brandreth and has been published by Oscar Wilde Mystery this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Detective and mystery stories categories.
In OSCAR WILDE AND THE MURDERS AT READING GAOL, the sixth in Gyles Brandreth's acclaimed Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries series featuring Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle, Reading Gaol's most famous prisoner is pitted against a ruthless and fiendishly clever serial killer. 'Intelligent, amusing and entertaining' Alexander McCall Smith It is 1897, Dieppe. Oscar Wilde, poet, playwright, novelist, raconteur and ex-convict, has fled the country after his release from Reading Gaol. Tonight he is sharing a drink and the story of his cruel imprisonment with a mysterious stranger. He has endured a harsh regime: the treadmill, solitary confinement, censored letters, no writing materials. Yet even in the midst of such deprivation, Oscar's astonishing detective powers remain undiminished - and when first a brutal warder and then the prison chaplain are found murdered, who else should the governor turn to for help other than Reading Gaol's most celebrated inmate? In this, the latest novel in his acclaimed Oscar Wilde murder mystery series, Gyles Brandreth takes us deep into the dark heart of Wilde's cruel incarceration.
The Ballad Of Reading Gaol
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Author : Oscar Wilde
language : en
Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
Release Date : 2021-07-07
The Ballad Of Reading Gaol written by Oscar Wilde and has been published by Lindhardt og Ringhof this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-07 with Poetry categories.
"Like two doomed ships that pass in storm We had crossed each other's way: But we made no sign, we said no word, We had no word to say." Oscar Wilde was a married man with children, who had homosexual affairs. Since his sexual preference was considered taboo, not to mention illegal, in the Victorian era, he was famously sentenced to two years in prison for gross indecency. The Ballad of Reading Gaol tells the story of an execution he witnessed while there of a man who killed his wife. It is powerful and haunting, and Wilde’s pain seeps through with every word. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet, famous for ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ and ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ to name a couple. He was believed to be gay and met a lot of resistance in his life on that account. He died in Paris at the age of 46.
Oscar Wilde And The Ring Of Death
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Author : Gyles Brandreth
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-02-05
Oscar Wilde And The Ring Of Death written by Gyles Brandreth and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-05 with Fiction categories.
'I see murder in this unhappy hand...' When Mrs Robinson, palmist to the Prince of Wales, reads Oscar Wilde's palm she cannot know what she has predicted. Nor can Oscar know what he has set in motion when, that same evening, he proposes a game of 'Murder' in which each of his Sunday Supper Club guests must write down those whom they would like to kill. For the fourteen 'victims' begin to die mysteriously, one by one, and in the order in which their names were drawn from the bag...With growing horror, Wilde and his confidantes Robert Sherard and Arthur Conan Doyle, realise that one of their guests that evening must be the murderer. In a race against time, Wilde will need all his powers of deduction and knowledge of human behaviour before he himself -- the thirteenth name on the list -- becomes the killer's next victim.
Oscar Wilde And The Candlelight Murders
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Author : Gyles Brandreth
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2008-01-10
Oscar Wilde And The Candlelight Murders written by Gyles Brandreth and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-10 with Fiction categories.
London, 1889. Oscar Wilde, celebrated poet, wit, playwright and raconteur is the literary sensation of his age. All Europe lies at his feet. Yet when he chances across the naked corpse of sixteen-year-old Billy Wood, posed by candlelight in a dark, stifling attic room, he cannot ignore the brutal murder. With the help of fellow author Arthur Conan Doyle he sets out to solve the crime -- but it is Wilde's unparalleled access to all degrees of late Victorian life, from society drawing rooms and the bohemian demi-monde to the underclass, that will prove the decisive factor in their investigation of what turns out to be a series of brutal killings. The Oscar Wilde Murders is a gripping detective story of corruption and intrigue, of Wilde's growing success, of the breakdown of his marriage, and of his fatal friendship with Aidan Fraser, Inspector at Scotland Yard...Set against the exotic background of fin-de-siecle London, Paris, Oxford and Edinburgh, Gyles Brandreth recreates Oscar Wilde's trademark sardonic wit with huge flair, intertwining all the intrigue of the classic English murder mystery with a compelling portrait of one of the greatest characters of the Victorian age.
Ballad Of Reading Gaol
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Author : Oscar Wilde
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-01-20
Ballad Of Reading Gaol written by Oscar Wilde and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-20 with categories.
In 1895, Oscar Wilde was sentenced to two years of hard labor as punishment for having engaged in homosexual acts. While serving out his sentence at Reading Gaol in Berkshire, Wilde witnessed the execution by hanging of a young soldier who had murdered his wife by slashing her throat. Profoundly shaken by the execution and the crime that preceded it, Wilde composed this elegiac poem centered on the haunting refrain, "Yet each man kills the thing he loves."
Oscar Wilde And The Vatican Murders
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Author : Gyles Brandreth
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-10-13
Oscar Wilde And The Vatican Murders written by Gyles Brandreth and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-13 with Fiction categories.
In 1892 Arthur Conan Doyle, exhausted by his creation Sherlock Holmes, retires to the spa at Bad Homburg. But his rest cure does not go as planned. The first person he encounters is Oscar Wilde, and when the two friends make a series of macabre discoveries amongst the portmanteau of fan mail Conan Doyle has brought to answer - a severed finger, a lock of hair and finally an entire severed hand - the game is once more afoot. The trail leads to Rome, to the very heart of the Eternal City, the Vatican itself. Pope Pius IX has just died. These are uncertain times. To uncover the mystery and why the creator of Sherlock Holmes has been summoned in this way, Oscar and Conan Doyle must penetrate the innermost circle of the Catholic Church - seven men who have a very great deal to lose.
The Ballad Of Reading Gaol
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Author : Oscar Wilde
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
The Ballad Of Reading Gaol written by Oscar Wilde and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Law categories.
"The Ballad of Reading Gaol" is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile either in Berneval-le-Grand or in Dieppe, France, after his release from Reading Gaol (pronounced "redding jail") on 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading after being convicted of homosexual offences in 1895 and sentenced to two years' hard labour in prison.During his imprisonment, on Tuesday, 7 July 1896, a hanging took place. Charles Thomas Wooldridge had been a trooper in the Royal Horse Guards. He was convicted of cutting the throat of his wife, Laura Ellen, earlier that year at Clewer, near Windsor. He was aged 30 when executed.
Oscar Wilde And The Dead Man S Smile
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Author : Gyles Brandreth
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2010-04-29
Oscar Wilde And The Dead Man S Smile written by Gyles Brandreth and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-29 with Fiction categories.
The latest in Gyles Brandreth's acclaimed series of Victorian murder mysteries featuring Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle. Paris, 1883. Oscar Wilde, aged twenty-seven, has come to the city of decadence to discover its charms, to rekindle his friendship with the divine Sarah Bernhardt and to collaborate with France's most celebrated actor-manager, Edmond La Grange. Oscar discovers dark secrets lying at the heart of the La Grange company, and is confronted by murders both foul and bizarre. To solve the crimes, to unravel the mystery, Oscar risks his life -- and his reputation -- embarking on a dangerous adventure that takes him from bohemian night clubs to an asylum for the insane, from a duel in the Buttes de Chaumont to the gates of Reading Gaol.
The Ballad Of Reading Gaol Annotated
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Author : Oscar Wilde
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-05-05
The Ballad Of Reading Gaol Annotated written by Oscar Wilde and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-05 with categories.
Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde.In 1895, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was convicted of "acts of gross indecency with other men" and sentenced to two years of forced labor. He was sent first to Pentonville, then to Wandsworth, and finally to Reading Gaol. After his release in May 1897, Wilde left for France, where he settled near Dieppe. He never saw his wife, Constance again, nor did he return to England or Ireland. While in Dieppe, Wilde wrote two letters to the Daily Chronicle protesting the brutalities of prison life, including the inhumane treatment of children in prison. A month before his second letter appeared in 1898, Wilde published Ballad of Reading Gaol, a grimly realistic poem that describes the hanging of Charles Thomas Wooldridge, a Royal Horse Guards soldier, for the murder of his wife. His publication gave the author's name as C.3.3 (Wilde's number in Reading Gaol, his cell being the third cell on the third floor of Block C). Oscar Wilde, was a writer, poet and playwright of Irish origin. Wilde is considered one of the most outstanding playwrights of late Victorian London; In addition, he was a celebrity of the time due to his great and sharp wit. Today, he is remembered for his epigrams, his plays,