Oscar Wilde
Author
Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
xi, 260 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
More than 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted The Picture of Dorian Gray for publication in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, the uncensored version of his novel appears here for the first time in a paperback edition. This volume restores all of the material removed by the novel’s first editor. Upon receipt of the typescript, Wilde’s editor panicked at what he saw. Contained within its pages was material he feared readers would find “offensive”—especially...
Author
Series
Publisher
Classical Comics Ltd
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
133 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Description
"In this Oscar Wilde's entire three-act play presented as a full color graphic novel, two young gentlemen living in 1890's England use imaginary friends to inject some excitement into their seemingly dull lives. Jack Worthing invents a brother, “Ernest,” whom he pretends to be in order to visit his beloved Gwendolen in the city. Meanwhile, friend Algy Moncrieff uses the name “Ernest” while visiting Jack's beautiful young ward, Cecily in the...
6) 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...
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sir Robert is a respected politician with a beautiful wife and adoring sister, but when an old acquaintance threatens to reveal a dark secret from his past, only his womanizing best friend is scheming and dishonest enough to come to his aid.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sir Robert Chiltern (Jeremy Northam) is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs. Chieveley (Julianne Moore) appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring (Rupert Everett), an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.
Series
Criterion collection volume 158
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
p2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A witty, delightful story about a lovestruck suitor named Jack whose fiancee can only love a man named Ernest.
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
For 300 years the ghost of Simon de Canterville, entombed alive by his father for cowardice, has been roaming his castle in search of a kinsman to free him by performing a brave deed. In 1943, from a troop of American soldiers billeted in the castle, comes new hope: Sir Simon's long lost nephew.
Series
Publisher
Timeless Media Group
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Strange, unexplained occurrences in an old English manor are turning the Otis family's dream vacation into a nightmare. One night, they acturally meet the long dead Sir Simon de Canterville -- and discover just how cowardly a ghost can be!"--Container.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., b&w with Technicolor inserts ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dorian Gray is an innocent young man who has his portrait painted by a close friend. Soon after he falls under the influence of amoral Lord Henry Wotton. Dorian soon jilts his fiancee, which leads to her suicide. This is the start of a life of increasing debauchery. Dorian realizes that the outward signs of this are apparent only in the portrait. Eventually the picture, secreted in his childhood playroom, becomes almost hideous to behold. But Dorian...
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Algernon is a gentlemen from a wealthy family. Algernon's close friend Jack, has a ward, Cecily. Both Algernon and Jack have created alter egos to make life more interesting. Algernon arrives for a weekend visit in the country posing as Earnest. Having heard of Earnest's misadventures, Cicely has developed an infatuation with the rogue, and Algernon's impersonation of him works famously on Cicely. Meanwhile, Algernon's cousin, Gwendolyn, arrives for...
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (1 hr., 30 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An American family moves to England, to the infamous Canterville Chase, the ancestral home that's been haunted for 300 years by the ghost, of Sir Simon de Canterville. When Sir Simon and the family's teenage daughter Virginia start plotting together to get her family back to New York, she discovers that Sir Simon has been cursed to be bound to the estate. After she uncovers the beautiful and tragic love story of Sir Simon's beloved wife, Virginia...
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (approximately 1,320 mins) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (76 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 cm)
Description
In the early decades of cinema, some of the most innovative and celebrated filmmakers in America were women. Alice Guy-Blaché helped establish the basics of cinematic language, while others boldly continued its development: slapstick queen Mabel Normand (who taught Charlie Chaplin the craft of directing), action star Grace Cunard, and LGBTQ icon Alla Nazimova. Unafraid of controversy, filmmakers such as Lois Weber and Dorothy Davenport Reid tackled...