"edition of the novel; nonetheless, by June 1891, Wilde was defending ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"" against accusations that it was a bad book. In the essay ""The Artist as Critic"", Oscar Wilde said that: In the 19th century, the critical reception of the novel ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"" (1890) was poor. The book critic of ""The Irish Times"" said, ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"" was ""first published to some scandal."" Such book reviews achieved for the novel a ""certain notoriety for being 'mawkish and nauseous', 'unclean', 'effeminate' and 'contaminating'."" Such moralistic scandal arose from the novel's homoeroticism, which"
"knew this, and the girl blushingly admits that this is why he called her ""the master-mistress of my passion"". The Portrait of Mr. W. H. ""The Portrait of Mr. W. H."" is a story written by Oscar Wilde, first published in ""Blackwood's Magazine"" in 1889. It was later added to the collection ""Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories"", though it does not appear in early editions. An enlarged edition planned by Wilde, almost twice as long as the ""Blackwood's"" version, with cover illustration by Charles Ricketts, did not proceed and only came to light after Wilde's death. This was"
"The Portrait of Mr. W. H. ""The Portrait of Mr. W. H."" is a story written by Oscar Wilde, first published in ""Blackwood's Magazine"" in 1889. It was later added to the collection ""Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories"", though it does not appear in early editions. An enlarged edition planned by Wilde, almost twice as long as the ""Blackwood's"" version, with cover illustration by Charles Ricketts, did not proceed and only came to light after Wilde's death. This was published in limited edition by Mitchell Kennerley in New York in 1921, and in a first regular English edition"
"The Trials of Oscar Wilde The Trials of Oscar Wilde also known as The Man with the Green Carnation and The Green Carnation, is a 1960 British film based on the libel and subsequent criminal cases involving Oscar Wilde and the Marquess of Queensberry. It was written by Allen and Ken Hughes, directed by Hughes, and co-produced by Irving Allen, Albert R. Broccoli and Harold Huth. The screenplay was by Ken Hughes and Montgomery Hyde, based on the play ""The Stringed Lute"" by John Furnell. The film was made by Warwick Films and released by United Artists. It stars Peter"
"Oscar Wilde (play) Oscar Wilde is a 1936 play written by Leslie and Sewell Stokes. It is based on the life of the Irish playwright Oscar Wilde in which Wilde's friend, the controversial author and journalist Frank Harris, appears as a character. The play, which contains much of Wilde's actual writings, starts with Wilde's literary success and his friendship with Lord Alfred Douglas, turns into a courtroom melodrama, and ends with Wilde as a broken alcoholic after two years in prison. Owing to the play's subject matter it was never granted a licence by the Lord Chamberlain and could, therefore,"
"narrator had been wounded, and that he had eaten opium to relieve the pain. Poe probably excised this introduction because it was not particularly relevant, and it also gave the impression that the story was nothing more than a hallucination. The shorter version, renamed ""The Oval Portrait"" was published in the April 26, 1845 edition of the ""Broadway Journal"". The story inspired elements in the 1891 novel ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"" by Oscar Wilde. Five years before the novel's publication, Wilde had praised Poe's rhythmical expression. In Wilde's novel, the portrait gradually reveals the evil of its subject rather"
"Wilde (film) Wilde is a 1997 British biographical film directed by Brian Gilbert with Stephen Fry in the title role. The screenplay by Julian Mitchell is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1987 biography of Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann. The film opens with Oscar Wilde's 1882 visit to Leadville, Colorado during his lecture tour of the United States. Despite his flamboyant personality and urbane wit, he proves to be a success with the local silver miners as he regales them with tales of Renaissance silversmith Benvenuto Cellini. Wilde returns to London and weds Constance Lloyd (Jennifer Ehle), and they have"
"Oscar Wilde"" starring Peter Finch as Wilde. In July 1914, Millard's ""Bibliography of Oscar Wilde"" appeared to wide acclaim. ""It is my life's work"", he wrote to Walter Ledger, ""and the only thing I am likely to be remembered for to my merit."" Ross called it ""an astonishing and ingenious compilation"", claiming that in ten minutes of turning the proofs he had learned ""more about Wilde's writings than Wilde himself ever knew"". In 1920, Millard published his last work on Wilde – ""Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetic Movement"" - which dealt with the caricatures of Wilde in the music of"
"The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945 film) The Picture of Dorian Gray is a 1945 American horror-drama film based on Oscar Wilde's 1890 novel of the same name. Released in March 1945 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the film is directed by Albert Lewin and stars George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton and Hurd Hatfield as Dorian Gray. Shot primarily in black-and-white, the film features four colour inserts in 3-strip Technicolor of Dorian's portrait; these are a special effect, the first two inserts are the original portrait and the second two after a major period of degeneration then recovery. It is London, 1886."
"1988 and a Pulitzer Prize in 1989. The book was the basis for the 1997 film ""Wilde"", directed by Brian Gilbert and starring Stephen Fry as the title character. Neil McKenna's 2003 biography, ""The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde,"" offers an exploration of Wilde's sexuality. Often speculative in nature, it was widely criticised for its pure conjecture and lack of scholarly rigour. Thomas Wright's ""Oscar's Books"" (2008) explores Wilde's reading from his childhood in Dublin to his death in Paris. After tracking down many books that once belonged to Wilde's Tite Street library (dispersed at the time of his trials),"
"Wake"" was an immense riddle, and people find it too difficult to read. I have yet to meet anyone who has read and digested the whole of it—except perhaps my friend Richard Ellmann."" Ellmann quotes extensively from ""Finnegans Wake"" as epigraphs in his biography of Joyce. Ellman's biography ""Oscar Wilde"" won a Pulitzer Prize. In it he examined Wilde's ascent to literary prominence and his public downfall. Posthumously Ellmann won both a U.S. National Book Critics Circle Award in 1988 and the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. The book was the basis for the 1997 film ""Wilde"", directed by Brian"
"a painting of Swiss landscape that reminds him of a view he saw while at a sanatorium in Switzerland, and also when he first sees the face of his love interest, Nastasya, in the form of a painted portrait. At one point in the novel, Nastasya, too, describes a painting of Christ, her own imaginary work that portrays Christ with a child, an image which naturally evokes comparison between the image of the dead Christ. The Irish aesthete and novelist Oscar Wilde's ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"" (1890/1891) tells how Basil Hallward paints a picture of the young man named"
"and both Charles Maturin's ""The Fatal Revenge"" (1807) and ""Melmoth the Wanderer"" (1820). Somewhat later came the first lesbian vampire novella ""Carmilla"" (1872) by Sheridan Le Fanu and ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"" (1890) by Oscar Wilde, which shocked readers with its sensuality and overtly homosexual characters. There is even gay subtext in Bram Stoker's ""Dracula"" (1897) as the title character warns off the female vampires and claims Jonathan Harker, saying ""This man belongs to me!"" Richard S. Primuth of ""The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide"" writes that Stoker, a closeted gay man and close friend of Oscar Wilde, began"
"bisexuality, were rare in literary works. A more famous example of characters implied to be bisexual include Dorian Gray and supporting characters from ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"" by Oscar Wilde. Wilde himself was married with children, but was understood by his contemporaries to have had extra-marital relationships with both women and men. Some time after the publication of ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"", Wilde was summoned to court on accusations of gross indecency for his portrayal of homosexual overtones and rumors about his own gay relationships. In modern adaptations of the story, Dorian is often portrayed as bisexual. Kate"
"it. Wilde contacted Couperus and sent him his book ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"". The exchange of letters between Wilde and Louis Couperus and his wife Elisabeth Couperus-Baud resulted in the first translation of Wilde's novel, published in 1893, in Dutch by ""mevrouw Louis Couperus"" (Mrs. Louis Couperus). Most of the other translations of the work of Louis Couperus were of Alexander Teixeira de Mattos (1855–1921) who married later the widow of Wilde's brother Willie Wilde. Clara Bell Clara Bell, née Poynter (1835–1927), was an English translator fluent in French, German, Danish, Dutch, Italian, Norwegian, Russian, and Spanish, noted for"
"in the U.S. and Canada and $1,576,000 elsewhere, resulting in a loss of $26,000. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945 film) The Picture of Dorian Gray is a 1945 American horror-drama film based on Oscar Wilde's 1890 novel of the same name. Released in March 1945 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the film is directed by Albert Lewin and stars George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton and Hurd Hatfield as Dorian Gray. Shot primarily in black-and-white, the film features four colour inserts in 3-strip Technicolor of Dorian's portrait; these are a special effect, the first two inserts are the original portrait and the"
"the romantic novelist Amelia Opie, and the travelogue author George Borrow. Physiognomy is a central, implicit assumption underlying the plot of Oscar Wilde's ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"". In 19th-century American literature, physiognomy figures prominently in the short stories of Edgar Allan Poe. Phrenology, also considered a form of physiognomy, was created around 1800 by German physician Franz Joseph Gall and Johann Spurzheim, and was widely popular in the 19th century in Europe and the United States. In the U.S., physician James W. Redfield published his ""Comparative Physiognomy"" in 1852, illustrating with 330 engravings the ""Resemblances between Men and Animals""."
"was ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"" (1891). During the dinner party the two authors chatted, and Wilde disclosed that he had read ""Micah Clarke"" and liked it. Conan Doyle mentioned the incident in his 1924 autobiography, ""Memories and Adventures"". He explained that he and Wilde became friendly, but that the friendship remained a distant one at best, and that it grew more distant as Wilde's reputation became questionable. The actual friendly relationship appears to be true, but that Wilde liked ""Micah Clarke"" remains at issue. In the 1999 biography of Conan Doyle, ""Teller of Tales"", author Daniel Stashower suspects that"
"Oscar Wilde (film) Oscar Wilde is a 1960 biographical film about Oscar Wilde, made by Vantage Films and released by 20th Century Fox. The film was directed by Gregory Ratoff and produced by William Kirby, from a screenplay by Jo Eisinger, based on the play ""Oscar Wilde"" by Leslie Stokes and Sewell Stokes. Original music score was by Kenneth Jones. The film starred Robert Morley as Oscar Wilde, Ralph Richardson as Sir Edward Carson, Phyllis Calvert as Constance Wilde, John Neville as Lord Alfred Douglas, Dennis Price as Robbie Ross, Alexander Knox as Sir Edward Clarke and Edward Chapman as"
"in London and deal with the ever-changing, but at the same time stubbornly consistent nature of the city. Often this theme is explored through the city's artists, especially its writers: Oscar Wilde in ""The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde"" (1983), a fake autobiography of Wilde; Nicholas Hawksmoor, Sir Christopher Wren and Sir John Vanbrugh in ""Hawksmoor"" (1985); Thomas Chatterton and George Meredith in ""Chatterton"" (1987); John Dee in ""The House of Dr Dee"" (1993); Dan Leno, Karl Marx, George Gissing and Thomas De Quincey in ""Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem"" (1994); John Milton in ""Milton in America"" (1996); Charles"
"of the writer Oscar Wilde. When Wilde sued Bosie's father for libel when accused of ""posing as a somdomite"" (""sic""), this led to Wilde's downfall and imprisonment. In 1895, when during his trial Wilde was released on bail, Sholto Johnstone Douglas stood surety for £500 of the bail money. In his ""Noel Coward: A Biography"" (1996), Philip Hoare writes of ""...late nineteenth-century enthusiasts of boy-love; writers, artists and Catholic converts inclined to intellectual paedophilia, among them Wilde, Frederick Rolfe, Sholto Douglas and Lord Alfred Douglas."" As a portrait painter, Douglas belonged to the period of John Singer Sargent and ""...led"
"Festival. The film was the inspiration for a promotional film made for the Rolling Stones song ""We Love You""; the 1967 film, directed by Peter Whitehead, featured Mick Jagger as Wilde, Keith Richards as the Marquis, and Marianne Faithfull as Bosie. The Trials of Oscar Wilde The Trials of Oscar Wilde also known as The Man with the Green Carnation and The Green Carnation, is a 1960 British film based on the libel and subsequent criminal cases involving Oscar Wilde and the Marquess of Queensberry. It was written by Allen and Ken Hughes, directed by Hughes, and co-produced by Irving"
"about Elisabeth Couperus-Baud in his novel ""De zwaluwen neergestreken"": ""We are cousins and played together as children. We still own photographs of ourselves together, when we were young."" In 1893 Louis Couperus received a letter from Oscar Wilde, in which he was complemented with his novel ""Noodlot""; this book was translated into English by Clara Bell. As a result of the correspondence Elisabeth Couperus-Baud was asked to translate Wilde's book ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"". After her marriage to Louis Couperus, Couperus-Baud was active as a critic of her husband's work and made readable copies of his handwritings. In time"
"Dorian, an Imitation Dorian, an Imitation is a British novel by Will Self. The book is a modern take on Oscar Wilde's ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"". The novel was originally published by Viking Press in 2002 and subsequently by Penguin in 2003. Self was originally asked to adapt the Wilde novel into a film screenplay, but this project did not come to fruition. Instead, Self took this uncompleted screenplay and re-worked it into a novel, which he described as ""an imitation - and a homage"" to the Wilde original. Self draws correlations between the life of his character Dorian"
"and his Maid"" was staged. Gilbert and Sullivan's operettas ""The Gondoliers"", or, ""The King of Barataria"" (1889), ""Utopia, Limited"", or, ""The Flowers of Progress"" (1893) and ""The Grand Duke"", or, ""The Statutory Duel"" (1896) were all staged. Lewis Carroll's last novel, the two-volume Sylvie and Bruno, was published in 1889 and 1893 respectively. In 1889 Oscar Wilde published ""The Portrait of Mr. W. H."". In 1890 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published ""The Sign of the Four"". H. Rider Haggard published ""The Saga of Eric Brighteyes"" an epic viking novel. Oscar Wilde published ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"". In 1891 Herman"
"lower budget production which was compared unfavorably with the wide-screen, technicolor version ""The Trials of Oscar Wilde"". Oscar Wilde (film) Oscar Wilde is a 1960 biographical film about Oscar Wilde, made by Vantage Films and released by 20th Century Fox. The film was directed by Gregory Ratoff and produced by William Kirby, from a screenplay by Jo Eisinger, based on the play ""Oscar Wilde"" by Leslie Stokes and Sewell Stokes. Original music score was by Kenneth Jones. The film starred Robert Morley as Oscar Wilde, Ralph Richardson as Sir Edward Carson, Phyllis Calvert as Constance Wilde, John Neville as Lord"
"The Wild Things The Wild Things is a 2009 full-length novel written by Dave Eggers and published by McSweeney's. The book is based on the screenplay of ""Where the Wild Things Are"" which Eggers co-wrote. The film is, in turn, based on Maurice Sendak's children's book ""Where the Wild Things Are"". According to the Acknowledgements of the novel, Eggers, who was asked by Spike Jonze to write the screenplay, was also asked by Sendak to write the novelization. He said his version is different, as Sendak's Max was based on Sendak, Jonze's was based on Jonze, and while writing the"
"Wilde Oscar Wilde Oscar (born 8 April 1967 in Burnham, Buckinghamshire, England) is an English retired pornographic film actor. He is noted for being married to, and frequently performing with, the English pornographic film actress, Nici Sterling. As quoted in The Independent newspaper in June 2000. Although I have done films with Nici and in my own right, Nici's the star in the family. She's the one the directors are keen on. For a long while the fact that we were a married couple was a great selling point. There aren't many in this industry and those who work together"
"imagination, seen in you the hero of her dreams, and not yourself as you really are.<br> (Page 401, 1953 Penguin Edition, trans. Margaret R.B. Shaw). The myth had a decided influence on English Victorian homoerotic culture, via André Gide's study of the myth, ""Le Traité du Narcisse"" ('The Treatise of the Narcissus', 1891), and the only novel by Oscar Wilde, ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"". Paulo Coelho's ""The Alchemist"" also starts with a story about Narcissus, found (we are told) by the alchemist in a book brought by someone in the caravan. The alchemist's (and Coelho's) source was very probably"
"this portrait will never grow old and I shall"""". This may have been the inspiration for Wilde's famous novel ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"". Richards was a close friend of the journalist and art critic Robbie Ross, who like Richards was a Canadian living in England. Ross was a close friend of Oscar Wilde, and was his literary executor. Richards was known for her portrait paintings. Her portrait of her uncle William Buell Richards, the first Chief Justice of Canada, still hangs in the Supreme Court of Canada building in Ottawa. A portrait by Richards is in the collection of"
"and Oscar Wilde (1854–1900). They brought an oppositional political perspective to their fairy tales and questioned the classical fairy tales and society at large. They reached out to young readers from the upper class, the petite bourgeoisie, and the working class. The literary fairy tale was their political weapon and they preached a message of social liberation. In Zipes words': ""Their art was a subversive symbolic act intended to illuminate concrete utopias waiting to be realized once the authoritarian rule of the Nome King could be overcome"". Rogers points that ""The Emerald City of Oz"" (1910) was supposed to be"
"auction. This has made bibliographical (and biographical) studies of unpublished work more difficult since they are widely dispersed, some in private ownership. The largest collection of Wilde's letters, manuscripts, and other material relating to his literary circle are housed at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. A number of Wilde's letters and manuscripts can also be found at The British Library, as well as public and private collections throughout Britain, the United States and France. Oscar Wilde bibliography This is a bibliography of works by Oscar Wilde, a late-Victorian Irish writer. Chiefly remembered today as a playwright, especially for ""The"
"and the Oscar Wilde trials. ""Teleny"", chronicling a passionate affair between a Frenchman and a Hungarian pianist, is often attributed to a collaborative effort by Wilde and some of his contemporaries. Wilde's more mainstream ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"" (1890) still shocked readers with its sensuality and overtly homosexual characters. Drew Banks called Dorian Gray a groundbreaking gay character because he was ""one of the first in a long list of hedonistic fellows whose homosexual tendencies secured a terrible fate."" The French realist Émile Zola in his novel ""Nana"" (1880) depicted, along with a wide variety of heterosexual couplings and"