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Sony Picutres classicsSummary: Notorious poet and playwright Oscar Wilde devours all that life has to offer, but there's only so much that late Victorian England will tolerate. As Wilde delves into a taboo world of homosexual desire, his life rapidly becomes a turbulent charade. He cannot escape the repercussions wrought by a "pure" society, nor will he hide in shame for being true to his nature.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WILFitzsimons, Eleanor
Summary: Hailed as a gay icon and pioneer of individualism, Oscar Wilde's insistence that "there should be no law for anybody," made him a staunch defender of gender equality. Women were central to his life and career: from his relationship with his extraordinary mother, Jane, and the tragedy of his sister Isola's early death, to his accomplished wife, Constance, and a coterie of other free-thinking...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Duckworth 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILDE, OSCAR FITDudgeon, Piers.
Summary: "Maeve Binchy's novels sold more than 40 million copies worldwide, and when she died on July 30th 2012, she did so as Ireland's best-loved writer. With bestselling books such as Light a Penny Candle, Circle of Friends, Tara Road, Evening Class, and A Week in Winter, which was published four months after her death, no one else told stories like Maeve Binchy. Humane, down-to-earth, and funny, her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BINCHY, MAEVE DUDTóibín, Colm
Summary: "Colm Tóibín begins his incisive, revelatory Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know with a walk through the Dublin streets where he went to university--a wide-eyed boy from the country--and where three Irish literary giants also came of age: Wilde, Yeats, and Joyce. Elegant, profound, and riveting, Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know illuminates not only the complex relationships between three of the greatest...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 TOISummary: You’ll find thoughtful, surprising and powerful poems here. Poems about love and skateboarding, about feeling lonely and making friends, about jellyfish, magic, school, snowdrops, monsters, blackbirds… and lots, lots more. Chosen with love by the acclaimed children’s poet Lucinda Jacob and award-winning children’s writer and bookseller Sarah Webb.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Island Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 821 IDaiches, David
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Paddington Press : distributed by Grosset & Dunlap 1979
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 820.9941 DAIDamrosch, Leopold
Summary: "Leo Damrosch draws on discoveries made over the past thirty years to tell the story of Swift's life anew. Probing holes in the existing evidence, he takes seriously some daring speculations about Swift's parentage, love life, and various personal relationships and shows how Swift's public version of his life--the one accepted until recently--was deliberately misleading. Swift concealed...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SWIFT, JONATHAN DAMEllmann, Richard
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILDE, OSCAR ELLMendelssohn, Michèle
Summary: Witty, inspiring, and charismatic, Oscar Wilde is one of the Greats of English literature. Today, his plays and stories are beloved around the world. But it was not always so. His afterlife has given him the legitimacy that life denied him. 'Making Oscar Wilde' reveals the untold story of young Oscar's career in Victorian England and post-Civil War America. Set on two continents, it tracks a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILDE, OSCAR MENFforde, Katie.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Century 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFOSolnit, Rebecca
Summary: In this acclaimed exploration of the culture of others, Rebecca Solnit travels through Ireland, the land of her long-forgotten maternal ancestors. A Book of Migrations portrays in microcosm a history made of great human tides of invasion, colonization, emigration, nomadism and tourism. Enriched by cross-cultural comparisons with the history of the American West, A Book of Migrations carves a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.5 SOLTóibín, Colm
Summary: "From one of the most engaging and brilliant writers of our time comes a collection of essays about growing up in Ireland during radical change; about cancer, priests, popes, homosexuality, and literature"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 824 TOIBayard, Louis
Summary: "Oscar Wilde, his wife, Constance, and their two sons deal with the aftermath of the famous playwright's imprisonment for homosexuality, told against the backdrop of Victorian England and World War I"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BAYCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEBaker, Jo
Summary: "From the best-selling author of Longbourn, a stunning new novel that follows an unnamed writer--Samuel Beckett--whose life and extraordinary literary gift are permanently shaped in the forge of war. When war breaks out in Europe in 1939, a young, unknown writer journeys from his home in neutral Ireland to conflict-ridden Paris and is drawn into the maelstrom. With him we experience the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Canada 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAKCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Baker 2016Belford, Barbara.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILDE, OSCAR BELHolland, Merlin.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 828.809 HOLO'Brien, Edna.
Summary: The acclaimed author describes her convent school education in Ireland, the scandal that ensued upon the publication of her first novel, and the wild 1960s parties that introduced her to people from all walks of life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.914 OBRSturgis, Matthew
Summary: "The first full biography of Oscar Wilde in more than thirty years"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILDE, OSCAR STUKiberd, Declan.
Summary: "One country, two languages, and a sequence of great artists in every generation. From the Gaelic bards to the Belfast Agreement, Irish writers have drawn equally on two traditions to heal the rifts of their land." "A celebration of the enduring Irish classics, this book by one of their most eloquent and adept readers offers an unusually brilliant and accessible survey of the greatest works...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 820.9 KIBSteel, Danielle.
Summary: Top photographer Hope Dunne fights to escape a mesmerizing sociopath who holds her in his thrall after she accepts a last-minute assignment to fly to London at Christmas and photograph one of the world's most celebrated writers-- an Irish-American author known for novels of thrilling literary darkness.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2009