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5 giorni fa · Oscar Wilde nel 1882 (foto di Sarony) Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (Dublino, 16 ottobre 1854 – Parigi, 30 novembre 1900) è stato uno scrittore, aforista, poeta, drammaturgo, giornalista, saggista, e critico letterario irlandese dell'età vittoriana, esponente del decadentismo e dell'estetismo britannico. Firma di Oscar Wilde
3 ore fa · Bibliophile |Kristy Iltners’ ‘Depth of Field’ won the 2023 Dorothy Hewett Award. Our personal point-and-shoot photographs capture moments and can trigger memories. As Dr Seuss once said, sometimes you don’t know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory. And photographs are often more reliable than memories, which have proven to ...
30 apr 2024 · Oscar Wilde (born October 16, 1854, Dublin, Ireland—died November 30, 1900, Paris, France) was an Irish wit, poet, and dramatist whose reputation rests on his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), and on his comic masterpieces Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895).
- Karl Beckson
6 mag 2024 · Mildred was predeceased by her parents, and 3 siblings; Carrel Wilde Wolsey, Gordon Wayne Wilde, and Dorothy Wilde Drewery, granddaughter Jocelyn Kay Lonsdale Ogrins, great granddaughter Lily Elena Stone and great grandson Hudson James Stowe. Mildred was born and raised in Welling, Alberta.
9 mag 2024 · Dorothy Hodgkin (born May 12, 1910, Cairo, Egypt—died July 29, 1994, Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire, England) was an English chemist whose determination of the structure of penicillin and vitamin B 12 brought her the 1964 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Education and marriage.
13 mag 2024 · Dorothy Hill (born September 10, 1907, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia—died April 23, 1997, Brisbane) was an Australian geologist known for her seminal work on corals dating to the Paleozoic Era (roughly 539 million to about 252 million years ago) and championing the efforts of women in academia in 20th-century Australia.
4 giorni fa · Review. The Picture of Dorian Gray seems to have a bit of a cult following even among readers who don’t normally describe themselves as fans of classics, so I was excited to finally delve into a work that has touched the imaginations of so many. Unfortunately, I wasn’t captivated and won’t be counting myself among the book’s particular ...
