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Oscar Wilde
Series
Criterion collection volume 158
Pub. Date
©2002
Language
English
Description
A witty, delightful story about a lovestruck suitor named Jack whose fiancee can only love a man named Ernest.
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
For 300 years the ghost of Simon de Canterville, entombed alive by his father for cowardice, has been roaming his castle in search of a kinsman to free him by performing a brave deed. In 1943, from a troop of American soldiers billeted in the castle, comes new hope: Sir Simon's long lost nephew.
Author
Pub. Date
p2001
Language
English
Description
A friend informs Lady Windermere that her husband, Lord Windermere, has paid a number of visits, and a substantial sum of money, to the disreputable Mrs. Erlynne. Deeply upset, Lady Windermere runs precipitately into the arms of another man. Ironically, it is Mrs. Erlynne who saves Lady Windermere's reputation--at further risk to her own.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Classic haunted house ghost stories curated by world-renowned filmmaker and horror genre expert John Landis. This beautifully presented, highly collectible anthology features ghost stories that have enthralled, terrified and inspired readers decade after decade. Some are relatively well known; others are long-lost treasures, awaiting rediscovery. The selection includes tales of terror by Bram Stoker, H. P. Lovecraft, and Percival Landon; studies of...
Pub. Date
[c2002?]
Language
English
Description
Algernon is a gentlemen from a wealthy family. Algernon's close friend Jack, has a ward, Cecily. Both Algernon and Jack have created alter egos to make life more interesting. Algernon arrives for a weekend visit in the country posing as Earnest. Having heard of Earnest's misadventures, Cicely has developed an infatuation with the rogue, and Algernon's impersonation of him works famously on Cicely. Meanwhile, Algernon's cousin, Gwendolyn, arrives for...
15) An ideal husband
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Sir Robert Chiltern (Jeremy Northam) is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs. Chieveley (Julianne Moore) appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring (Rupert Everett), an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.