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Extrait : "Nous perçûmes le bruit cadencé de pas de danseurs ; nous suivîmes, en flânant, la rue éclairée par la lune et nous arrêtâmes devant la maison de la Courtisane. De l'intérieur, à travers le tumulte, le désordre, nous entendions les musiciens jouer à grand bruit le Cœur cher et fidèle de Strauss."
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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish poet and playwright who became one of the most popular in London during the 1880s and 1890s. Well-known for his sharp wit and extravagant attire, Wilde was a proponent of aestheticism and wrote in a variety of forms including poetry, fiction, and drama. He was famously imprisoned for homosexual acts from 1895 to 1897 and died at the age of 46, just three years after his release. This book...
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"Charmides and Other Poems" is a 1913 collection of poetry by Oscar Wilde. The poems include: "Charmides", "Requiescat", "San Miniato", "Rome Unvisited", "Humanitad", "Louis Napoleon", "Endymion (For Music)", "Le Jardin", "La Mer", "Le Panneau", "Les Ballons", "Canzonet", "Le Jardin des Tuileries", "Pan Double Villanelle", "In the Forest", "Symphony in Yellow", etc. A fantastic collection of some of Wilde's best poetry not to be missed by fans and...
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Originally published in 1898, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" is a poem written by Oscar Wilde. Composed after his release from the titular prison whilst he was in exile in Berneval-le-Grand, the poem deals with the hanging at Reading Goal of Charles Thomas Wooldridge, a 30-year-old man who was imprisoned for cutting his wife's throat. Within the poem, Wilde narrates the execution in full and explores the brutal nature of the punishment that all inmates...
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