Oscar Wilde: A Life From Beginning to End


Hourly History - 2018
     Who was Oscar Wilde? Was he just an author of witty but meaningless plays, only out to get a laugh or two? The answer is a resounding no. Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright in the late nineteenth century. His controversial plays were riddled with mockery of social status, cleverly covered by the use of comedy. Inside you will read about... ✓ Blue China and Long Hair ✓ Marriage and Men ✓ The Picture of Dorian Gray ✓ The Sodomy Trials ✓ Life After Prison ✓ Death and Posthumous Pardon And much more! Wilde may have paved the way for people living a little off the center line. He was full of flash and flare, and he wrote some of those colorful traits into his literature. Take a journey into the world of Oscar Wilde and find out just how individualistic he was.

The Communist Manifesto/Wages, Price and Profit


Karl Marx - 1848
    Written over 150 years ago in 1848, a period of history with great upheaval, it continues to be an important work on political economy, especially as we enter the dawn of the global economy. Politicians, business leaders, acamdemics and students of very different persuasions find the manifesto a basic and essential treatise to be understood. It has had a tremendous effect throughout history and will continue to influence the future of mankind. A Collector's Edition.

With Every Mistake


Gwynne Dyer - 2005
    With Every Mistake is not only a collection of the very best of Dyer’s recent work, but an examination of how, time and again, the media skews fact and opinion, wielding formidable influence on how we all shape our own thoughts. And why is so much of the information wrong? Is it herd instinct, official manipulation, robber-baron owners with ideological obsessions — or just the conflict between the inherently bitty, short-term nature of news reporting and analysis and the longer perspectives needed to understand what is actually going on? How much misinformation stems from simple ignorance and laziness?

Crazy Stuff Dictators Do: Insane But True Stories You Won't Believe Actually Happened


Bill O'Neill - 2020
    

The Portable Walt Whitman


Walt Whitman - 1945
    To give a new voice to the new nation shaken by civil war, he spent his entire life revising and adding to the work, but his initial act of bravado in answering Ralph Waldo Emerson's call for a national poet has made Whitman the quintessential American writer. This rich cross-section of his work includes poems from throughout Whitman's lifetime as published on his deathbed edition of 1891 and other works.

Delphi Complete Works of Emile Zola


Émile Zola - 1902
    This monumental eBook features beautiful illustrations, informative introductions.CONTENTS:The Early NovelsCLAUDE’S CONFESSIONTHE DEAD WOMAN’S WISHTHE MYSTERY OF MARSEILLETHERESE RAQUINMADELEINE FERATThe Rougon-Macquart CycleTHE FORTUNE OF THE ROUGONSTHE KILLTHE FAT AND THE THINTHE CONQUEST OF PLASSANSABBE MOURET’S TRANSGRESSIONHIS EXCELLENCY EUGENE ROUGONTHE DRAM SHOPA LOVE EPISODENANAPIPING HOTTHE LADIES’ PARADISETHE JOY OF LIFEGERMINALHIS MASTERPIECETHE EARTHTHE DREAMTHE HUMAN BEASTMONEYTHE DOWNFALLDOCTOR PASCALThe Three CitiesLOURDESROMEPARISThe Four GospelsFRUITFULNESSLABOURTRUTHThe Short StoriesSTORIES FOR NINONNEW STORIES FOR NINONPARISIAN SKETCHESTHE ATTACK ON THE MILLTHE FLOODCAPTAIN BURLETHE MILLER’S DAUGHTERTHE DEATH OF OLIVIER BECAILLENAÏS MICOULINJ’Accuse !I ACCUSE...!The CriticismÉMILE ZOLA by Henry JamesTHE ZOLA CONTROVERSY by G. K. ChestertonM. ZOLA by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-CouchAn Extract from ‘MY LITERARY PASSIONS’ by William Dean HowellsÉMILE ZOLA by William Dean HowellsZOLA by Henryk SienkiewiczBORLASE AND SON by James JoyceThe BiographyWITH ZOLA IN ENGLAND by Ernest Alfred VizetellyResourcesTHE ROUGON-MACQUART FAMILY TREEINDEX OF CHARACTERS IN THE ROUGON-MACQUART SERIESINDEX OF LOCATIONS IN THE ROUGON-MACQUART SERIES