كتاب Lord Arthur Saville's Crime; The Portrait of Mr. W. H. and Other Stories

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1907. Excerpt: ... LORD ARTHUR SAVILE'S CRIME. I. It was Lady Windermere's last reception before Easter, and Bentinck House was even more crowded than usual. Six Cabinet Ministers had come on from the Speaker's Levee in their stars and ribands, all the pretty women wore their smartest dresses, and at the end of the picture-gallery stood the Princess Sophia of Carlsriihe, a heavy Tartar-looking lady, with tiny black eyes and wonderful emeralds, talking bad French at the top of her voice, and laughing immoderately at everything that was said to her. It was certainly a wonderful medley of people. Gorgeous peeress chatted affably to violent Radicals, popular preachers brushed coat-tails with eminent sceptics, a perfect bevy of bishops kept following a stout prima-donna from room to room, on the staircase stood several Royal Academicians, disguised as artists, and it was said that at one time the supper-room was absolutely crammed with geniuses. In fact, it was one of Lady Windermere's best nights, and the Princess stayed till nearly half-past eleven. As soon as she had gone, Lady Windermere returned to the picture-gallery, where a celebrated political economist was solemnly explaining the scientific theory of music to an indignant virtuoso from Hungary, and began to talk to the Duchess of Paisley. She looked wonderfully beautiful with her grand ivory throat, her large blue forget-me-not eyes, and her heavy coils of golden hair. Or pur they were--not that pale straw colour that nowadays usurps the gracious name of gold, but such gold as is woven into sunbeams or hidden in strange amber; and they gave to her face something of the frame of a saint, with not a little of the fascination of a sinner. She was a curious psychological study. Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks s...
أوسكار وايلد - كان أوسكار فينجال أوفلاهيرتي ويلز وايلد كاتبًا مسرحيًا وشاعرًا ومؤلفًا للعديد من القصص القصيرة ورواية واحدة. اشتهر بذكائه اللاذع ، ووفرة من الأمثال ، وأصبح واحدًا من أنجح الكتاب المسرحيين في أواخر العصر الفيكتوري في لندن ، وواحدًا من أعظم المشاهير في عصره. يستمر أداء العديد من مسرحياته على نطاق واسع ، وخاصة أهمية أن تكون جادًا . نتيجة لسلسلة من المحاكمات التي تمت تغطيتها على نطاق واسع ، عانى وايلد من انهيار مأساوي وسُجن لمدة عامين مع الأشغال الشاقة بعد إدانته بارتكاب "مخالفات جسيمة" مع رجال آخرين. بعد إطلاق سراح وايلد من السجن ، أبحر إلى دييب بواسطة العبارة الليلية. لم يعد إلى أيرلندا أو بريطانيا ، وتوفي في فقر. ❰ له مجموعة من الإنجازات والمؤلفات أبرزها ❞ دوريان جراى ❝ ❞ إمرأة بلا أهمية ❝ ❞ The Picture of Dorian Gray ❝ ❞ The Importance of Being Earnest and Four Other Plays ❝ ❞ The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays ❝ ❞ Impressions of America ❝ ❞ Poems in Prose ❝ ❞ A Woman of No Importance ❝ ❞ صورة دوريان جراى وسبع قصص قصيرة ❝ الناشرين : ❞ جميع الحقوق محفوظة للمؤلف ❝ ❞ المؤسسة العربية للدراسات والنشر ❝ ❞ المؤسسة العربية للطبع والنشر والتوزيع ❝ ❞ دار الكرنك ❝ ❞ Cambridge, Mass. ❝ ❞ منشورات روشني ❝ ❱
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