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A remarkably handsome youth, Dorian Gray, meets Lord Henry Wotton and is corrupted into a life of terrible evil. Granted eternal youth, Dorian Gray lives a wild, dissipated life while his portrait grows old and haggard. Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works... full of stinging epigrams and shrewd observations, the tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused...
Pub. Date
2015
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Sixty years after she fled Vienna during World War II, an elderly Jewish woman, Maria Altmann, starts her journey to retrieve family possessions seized by the Nazis, among them Klimt's famous painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. Together with her inexperienced but plucky young lawyer Randy Schoenberg, she embarks upon a major battle which takes them all the way to the heart of the Austrian establishment and the U.S. Supreme Court.
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"For the first time ever, legendary singer-songwriter Dolly Parton brings you behind the lyrics of 175 of her songs to reveal the personal stories and vibrant memories that have inspired sixty years of songwriting. Lushly illustrated and told in Dolly's inimitable voice, this rich collection offers an intimate, exclusive look at the colorful life, prolific career, and rags-to-rhinestones journey of one of the most revered entertainers of our time"--...
4) Faces places
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Publisher
Cohen Media Group
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Director Agnes Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Description
A young girl draws a family portrait, then makes it more accurate by adding common objects to show aspects of each member's personality, such as her father's playfulness, her mother's sweetness, and her brother's strength.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1034
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in 1760 France, Marianne arrives at an isolated seaside estate to secretly paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has recently left the convent and is about to enter a chattel marriage.
9) Dorian Gray
Publisher
National Entertainment Media
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Young Dorian Gray arrives fresh on the London social scene and is taken under the wing of corrupt, dev[i]lish Lord Henry Wotton who introduces him to the seedy pleasures of London life. Desperate to protect the youth and beauty captured in his portrait, Dorian swears he would give anything to stay as he is ... even his soul. Slipping deeper and deeper into a world of sin, sex and celebrity, his deeds grow ever more evil in an attempt to hide his...
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 602 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Description
"Simon Schama's latest book fuses history and art to create a tour de force of narrative sweep and illuminating insight. Using images from works-paintings, photographs, lithographs, etchings, sketches-found in London's National Portrait Gallery, The Face of Britain weaves together an account of their composition, framed by their particular moment of creation, and in the process unveils a collective portrait of nation and its history. "Portraits,"...
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Eerie Elementary volume 9
Publisher
Branches/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
90 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
Sam is working on making a clay dinosaur for the school art show and sale when the clay suddenly comes to life and attacks him, a sure sign that once again Orson Eerie, whose spirit inhabits the school, is up to something--and it is up to Sam, Antonio, and Lucy, to discover how a self-portrait of Orson figures into his evil plan.
15) Regular show
Publisher
Kaboom!
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
color illustrations ; 26 cm
Description
Finding themselves in trouble after a selfie war, Mordecai and Rigby must destroy all the evidence so no one, especially Margaret, sees Mordecai's scariest picture.
20) A study in death
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Series
Lady Darby mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
viii, 323 pages ; 24 cm
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Seeking a respite from her pregnant sister's wedding plans in 19th-century Scotland, Lady Kiera Darby accepts a commission to paint the portrait of an abused baroness who is subsequently murdered.
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