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The story is familiar by now - Oscar becomes one of the most popular playwrights and wits of his age, only to shoot himself down at the height of his fame due to his relationship with the horrible Alfred Lord Douglas, for which he finds himself sentenced to two years' hard labour. The ... Read review
The Oscar Wilde CollectionLet the BBC Transport you back to the decadent aristocratic ... more
drawing rooms of 1890s England. Lovingly restored for DVD, these plays feature a who's who of great actors of the British stage & screen including Sir John Gielgu...
Let the BBC transport you back to the decadent aristocratic drawing rooms of 1890's ... more
England. Lovingly restored the four plays in this collection feature a who's who of great actors of the British stage & screen; including stars like Sir John Gielg...
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Collection in English. Including:* Ballad of Reading Gaol* The Canterville Ghost* Charmides and Other Poems* De Profundis* The Duchess of Padua* Essays and Lectures* For Love of the King a Burmese Masque* The Happy Prince and Other Tales* A House of Pomegranates* An Ideal Husband* The Importance of Being Earnest* Intentions* Lady Windermere's Fan* Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories* Miscellanies* The Picture of Dorian Gray* Reviews* La Sainte Courtisane* Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde* Shorter Prose Pieces* The Soul of Man under Socialism* Vera or, The Nihilists* A Woman of No ImportancePlease check the application web site for video introduction of the application.The reader application provides the following important customer benefits:* True full screen reading mode* Real time font/font size and color/texture previews allow you to select fonts and colors and see in real time what pages would look likeSupport all iPhone's available fontsSupport different font sizeSupport 70+ font color /background color/texture* Continuous reading experience (One tap for page down/up; Left/right swipe to next/previous chapter/story)* Portrait and landscape reading mode (support all 4 orientations)* Remembers the last reading location (exact book, chapter and scroll position)* Quick scrolling navigation between chapters/stories to provide an overview of the entire book* Quick reference feature and web browser type functions maintain user's browser history* Displays rich formatted HTML book (NOT plain text)* Quick and easy access to the Reader Instruction/HelpOpration Instructions:* Each chapter/story is displayed in a continuous page, use finger to scroll the page down/up to read:- One tap on the top 1/4 of the screen to page up- One tap on the bottom 1/4 of the screen to page down- Swipe Left/right to the next/previous chapter- Pinch in/out to change font size.* Double tap on the screen to pop up the control panel to access all available controls
Production Year: 2004 - Drama - Director: Nick Cassavetes - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over, 12 years and over - Starring: Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands
Production Year: 1957 - Drama - Director: Leo McCarey - Original Language: English - Classification: Universal - Starring: Cathleen Nesbitt, Deborah Kerr, Cary Grant, Richard Denning, Neva Patterson, Fortunio Bonanova
Advantages: Stephen Fry's performance Disadvantages: Not completely accurate
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The story is familiar by now - Oscar becomes one of the most popular playwrights and wits of his age, only to shoot himself down at the height of his fame due to his relationship with the horrible Alfred Lord Douglas, for which he finds himself sentenced to two years' hard labour. The film goes to some pains to be historically accurate (it even gets right the almost illegible message that Lord Queensberry pinned to the theatre door which ... ...providing a happy reunion of the two lovers upon Wilde's final release. In fact Wilde didn't get a happy ending, because he never did the one thing that would always have turned his fortunes up, even after his sentence: ditch Douglas.
The film is a largely accurate and involving portrait of one of the most mistreated literary figures in history, but I can't help suspecting that it would have been far less of a success with anyone else in the ... more
I occasionally wonder if Oscar Wilde's life wasn't just a necessary preliminary so that Stephen Fry could get to play him. Fry clearly has a lot of sympathy with Wilde, and has little trouble placing himself in his shoes - something that I suspect he has done all his life. The story is familiar by now - Oscar becomes one of the most popular playwrights and wits of his age, only to shoot himself down at the height of his fame due to his relationship with the horrible Alfred Lord Douglas, for which he finds himself sentenced to two years' hard labour. The film goes to some pains to be historically accurate (it even gets right the almost illegible message that Lord Queensberry pinned to the theatre door which sparked off his ill-fated libel trial) but makes one blunder in providing a happy reunion of the two lovers upon Wilde's final release. In fact Wilde didn't get a happy ending, because he never did the one thing that would always have turned his fortunes up, even after his sentence: ditch Douglas. The film is a largely accurate and involving portrait of one of the most mistreated literary figures in history, but I can't help suspecting that it would have been far less of a success with anyone else in the title role.
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DVD Description
Dramatic adaptations of four of Oscar Wilde's works. In 'The Importance Of Being Earnest', Algernon Moncrieff and Jack Worthing are a pair of bachelors who both have alter egos in order to increase their opportunities for having fun. If they are to win the hearts of the girls of their dreams, however, they must realise the vital importance of being earnest. Also features: 'The Picture Of Dorian Gray', 'An Ideal Husband' and 'Lady Windermere's Fan'.
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