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Twelve Years a Slave

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Solomon Northup



Twelve Years a Slave is the memoir of a freeborn African American from New York who is kidnapped and sold into slavery. After being held for…

Prisoner for Blasphemy

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George William Foote



George William Foote, a British secularist, was convicted and imprisoned on the charge of blasphemy after founding "The Freethinker&quo…

Oscar Wilde: The Story of an Unhappy Friendship

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Robert Sherard



Robert Sherard was Oscar Wilde's friend of 20 years and first biographer. The Story of an Unhappy Friendship was the first of his four biogr…

The Life of Oscar Wilde

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Robert Sherard



Robert Sherard was Oscar Wilde's friend of 20 years and first biographer. The Life of Oscar Wilde was the second of his four biographies of …

Aristotle's Masterpiece

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Pseudo-Aristotle



Aristotle's Masterpiece, also known as The Works of Aristotle, the Famous Philosopher, is a sex manual and a midwifery book that was popular…

The Treatises of Benvenuto Cellini on Goldsmithing and Sculpture

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Benvenuto Cellini



Benvenuto Cellini, a 16th century Florentine goldsmith and sculptor, is perhaps better known for his colorful autobiography than his works o…

A Lost Lady

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Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather



The young Niel Herbert idolizes Marian Forrester, the beautiful and charismatic wife of a pioneering railroad magnate. After discovering Mrs…

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,…

The Real Oscar Wilde

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Robert Sherard



The Real Oscar Wilde is the third book about the Irish poet and playwright by his earliest and most prolific biographer. Since writing his e…

The Oscar Wilde Calendar

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Stuart Mason and Oscar Wilde



A compendium of Oscar Wilde's wit, including some of his most famous epigrams as well as unpublished quotations supplied by his friends. The…

Oscar Wilde: The Complete Interviews

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Various



This complete collection of Oscar Wilde’s English language interviews gives listeners the opportunity to hear one of history’s greatest conv…

Oscar Wilde from Purgatory

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Hester Travers Smith



Hester Dowden, who wrote under the name Hester Travers Smith, was an Irish spiritualist medium. She claimed to have communicated with the sp…

Oscar Wilde and Myself

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Lord Alfred Douglas



The first memoir by the poet Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas was written 14 years after the death of Oscar Wilde and in the aftermath of Douglas…

Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 1 (1868-1890)

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Oscar Wilde



This first collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde begins with the Irish playwright's earliest extant letter, thanking his mother fo…

Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 2 (1890-1895)

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Oscar Wilde



This second collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde includes letters written when the Irish playwright was at the height of his succ…

Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 3 (1895-1897)

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Oscar Wilde



This third collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde includes the letters Wilde wrote from prison. It begins with notes of thanks to t…

Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 4 (1897-1898)

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Oscar Wilde



This fourth collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde includes the letters Wilde wrote while living in Berneval, in the months after h…

Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 5 (1898-1900)

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Oscar Wilde



This fifth and final collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde includes many letters to his friend, Robert Ross, and a long letter abo…

In Excelsis

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Lord Alfred Douglas



In 1924, Lord Alfred Douglas was sued by Winston Churchill after he alleged that the politician had been part of a Jewish-backed conspiracy …

The Portrait of Mr. W. H.

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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…

The Autobiography of Lord Alfred Douglas

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Lord Alfred Douglas



Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas wrote his autobiography in his late fifties, some 29 years after the death of Oscar Wilde. Since the publication…