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Chapter III

In The Portrait of Mr. W. H.

Read by Rob Marland


Oscar Wilde


Wilde's short story about an attempt to uncover the identity of Mr. W. H., the dedicatee of Shakespeare's sonnets, was first published in Bl…

Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetic Movement

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 070

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Stuart Mason


Twenty short nonfiction works selected by the readers. “Shall we ever be able to visit the moon?” queries journalist Charles Nevers Holmes i…

Oscar Wilde: The Aesthetic Apostle's First Appearance in New York Society 1882)

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 072

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Anonymous


Twenty short nonfiction works, individually chosen by the readers. "The ground rose and fell in successive furrows, like the ruffled wa…

Introductory Note

In Something Childish and Other Stories

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Katherine Mansfield


This posthumous collection of stories and sketches by the New Zealand modernist author was published the year after her death from tuberculo…

Dramatis Personae

In The Knight of the Burning Pestle

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Francis Beaumont


The Knight of the Burning Pestle is a play in five acts, first performed in 1607. It is the first whole parody (or pastiche) play in English…

The Open Christmas Letter, from Jus Suffragii, IWSA journal, Jan. 1915, signed …

In Christmas Short Works Collection 2014

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Various


This year's Christmas collection of short stories and non-fiction, a play, poems, and bible readings features readings in English, Bulgarian…

II. Olympia

In A Ride Across the Peloponnese

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George Macmillan


In the spring of 1877, a young Oscar Wilde visited Greece with his classics professor, J. P. Mahaffy, and two friends. One of these friends,…

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