Lady Windermere's FanLady Windermere's Fan is a play by Oscar Wilde, first published in 1892. Like so many of Wilde's comedies, it has a dark side. The play has been the subject of numerous film and television adaptations. The 1925 silent film stars Ronald Colman, May McAvoy, - Oscar WildeOscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde ( October 16, 1854— November 30, 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and short story writer. One of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day, h (play)
Mistress Branican - Jules VerneJules Verne ( February 8, 1828 March 24, 1905) was a French writer and a pioneer of the science fiction ( scientific romance) genre. Early years Verne was born in Nantes to attorney Pierre Verne and his wife Sophie. The oldest of the family's five childre
Mrs. Bligh - Rhoda BroughtonRhoda Broughton ( November 29, 1840 June 5, 1920) was a novelist. Rhoda Broughton was born in Denbigh in north Wales. From an educated and well-to-do family, as a young girl she developed a taste for literature, especially poetry, and was encouraged by he
The Conquest of BreadClifford Harper. The Conquest of Bread ( French: La Conquete du Pain is a book by the anarchist communist Peter Kropotkin. Originally written in French, it first appeared as a series of articles in the anarchist journals Le Revolt and La Revolt (which wer - Peter KropotkinPrince Peter Alexeievich Kropotkin ( December 9, 1842 February 8, 1921) was one of Russia's foremost anarchists and one of the first advocates of what he called " anarchist communism": the model of society he advocated for most of his life was that of a c
The Venetians - Mary Elizabeth BraddonMary Elizabeth Braddon ( October 4, 1837 February 4, 1915) was a novelist Born in London in England, Braddon was privately educated and worked as an actress for three years in order to able to support herself and her mother. She met John Maxwell, a publis