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Forbidden Literature: Case studies on censorship
Så länge det har funnits litteratur har det även funnits försök att kontrollera och styra den. Konst och litteratur är ofta gränsöverskridande, och en betydande del av de texter so ...
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime is a story written by Oscar Wilde. The main character, Lord Arthur Savile, is introduced by Lady Windermere to Mr Septimus R. Podgers, a chiromantist, wh ...
The Decay of Lying
The Decay of Lying – An Observation is an essay by Oscar Wilde included in his collection of essays titled Intentions, published in 1891. Wilde presents the essay in a Socratic di ...
The Portrait of Mr. W. H.
The Portrait of Mr. W. H. is a story written by Oscar Wilde. The story is about an attempt to uncover the identity of Mr. W. H., the enigmatic dedicatee of Shakespeare's Sonnets. I ...
The Soul of Man
The Soul of Man is an 1891 essay by Oscar Wilde in which he expounds a libertarian socialist worldview and a critique of charity. The writing of The Soul of Man followed Wilde's co ...
Lady Windermere's Fan
Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman is a four-act comedy by Oscar Wilde, first performed 1892 in London. The play was first published in 1893. Like many of Wilde's com ...
De Profundis
De Profundis is a letter written from prison in 1897 by Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas, in which he recounts how he came to be in prison and charts his spiritual development. ...
The Picture of Dorian Grey (1891)
The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde, appearing as the lead story in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine on 20 June 1890, printed as the July 1890 issue ...
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a classic comedy of manners in which two flippant young men, in order to impress their respected beloveds, p ...
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
The Happy Prince and Other Tales is a collection of five stories by Oscar Wilde, dealing primarily with love and selfishness. The stories are generally sad, with a moralistic messa ...
The Canterville Ghost
The Canterville Ghost is a short story by Oscar Wilde. A modern American family moves into an English stately home - Canterville Chase. It turns out to be a traditionally drafty an ...
Forms of Knowledge: Developing the History of Knowledge
Kunskapshistoria är ett dynamiskt forskningsfält som har framtiden för sig. Under de senaste åren har inriktningen etablerats som en ny och spännande historievetenskaplig inriktnin ...
Fashioned in the North: Nordic Histories, Agents and Images of Fashion Photography
Fashioned in the North, om Nordisk modefotografi, innehåller många hittills okända exempel på bilder, fotografer, och publikationer inom modeforskningen. I antologin diskuteras ock ...
The Clockwork Man
The Clockwork Man is a science fiction novel by British author E. V. Odle. This is the original cyborg novel. Steampunk before steampunk was cool - one of the first appearances of ...
The Heel of Achilles
The Heel of Achilles is another great novel by the beloved author of the Diary of a Provincial Lady and over 40 novels, English author E. M. Delafield. In this novel the life and ...
I Visit the Soviets
I Visit the Soviets is a chronicle of three journeys to Russia in the aftermath of the Revolution, by English author E. M. Delafield. Delafield's book on her experiences living in ...
The Provincial Lady in Wartime
The Provincial Lady in Wartime is a largely autobiographical novel by English author E. M. Delafield. It takes the form of a journal of the life of an upper-middle class Englishwom ...
The Provincial Lady in America
The Provincial Lady in America is a largely autobiographical novel by English author E. M. Delafield. It takes the form of a journal of the life of an upper-middle class Englishwom ...
The Provincial Lady Goes Further
The Provincial Lady Goes Further is a largely autobiographical novel by English author E. M. Delafield. It takes the form of a journal of the life of an upper-middle class Englishw ...
Diary of a Provincial Lady
Diary of a Provincial Lady is a largely autobiographical novel by English author E. M. Delafield. It takes the form of a journal of the life of an upper-middle class Englishwoman l ...
Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind is a novel by American writer Margaret Mitchell. The story is set in Clayton County and Atlanta, both in Georgia, during the American Civil War and Reconstructi ...
WE
WE is a classic of dystopian science fiction by the Russian revolutionary Yevgeny Zamyatin. The novel is set 1,000 years after a revolution that brought the One State into power, a ...
The Ninth Man
The Ninth Man is a science fiction novella by Mary Heaton Vorse. In The Ninth Man, Mary Vorse gives us a compelling study of human nature and society. A fictional town in Italy i ...
Deadly City
Deadly City is a science fiction novella by Paul W. Fairman. You're all alone in a deserted city. You walk down an empty street, yearning for the sight of one living face—one mov ...
The Beasts in the Void
The Beasts in the Void is a short science fiction story by Paul W. Fairman. Holloway was used to big game hunters and their expeditions to other worlds. But this trip was sheer ma ...