Biography Books > 1936 Biography Books

Beneath the Twilight Bars

Advantages: An extraordinary exhibition of Wilde's talent
Disadvantages: Morose in content - Only fit for the Wilde plaudit

DE PROFUNDIS Author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) Written in 1897, by Oscar Wilde - De Profundis depicts his morose state of abandonment in an elongated letter to his lover Lord Alfred Douglas, whilst in Reading Gaol for homosexual deviances. Wilde' ...

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Review of De Profundis - Oscar Wilde

Move over Priscilla, Hester's Queen of the Desert!

Advantages: Interesting read about an intrepid and pioneering traveller
Disadvantages: No pictures

Introduction Most women today take their freedoms for granted never thinking about the actions of those pioneering women, long dead, whose spirit of adventure or sense of justice prompted them to stand up and be counted and who paved the way for m ...

ladybracknell 02.12.2010 · Read full review
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Review of Lady Hester Stanhope: The Unconventional Life of the Queen of the Desert - Joan Haslip