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City Life Quotes :: Finest Quotes
The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. . them and to some extent I would have to say this: If you've seen one city slum you've seen them all.
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Art for art's sake - New World Encyclopedia
Life should copy art, and nature was considered crude and lacking in design when . The concept of "art for art's sake" played a major role in Oscar Wilde's only . such as the concentration of large numbers of people in urban slums, which .
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Art_for_art's_sake

THE VICTORIAN AGE
Art became the only certainty, an art without reference to life and therefore it had nothing to do with . Il meglio di Oscar Wilde Wilde Oscar ; BUR Biblioteca Univ.
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History Victorians
Jul 15, 2008 . Though he did not live long (he died in December, 1861), his . to cities by large numbers resulting in the growth of slums and over crowded .
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Victorian Age - Charles - JRank Articles
Some, like Dickens and Thomas Hardy, died with the unedifying secrets of their lives intact; others, like Oscar Wilde, Charles Dilke, and Charles Parnell, were .
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Dublin Reading List
The third in a trilogy of novels exploring contemporary life in urban Dublin, . down amongst the slums around Custom House by his erstwhile associates. . Richard Ellmann, James Joyce (Oxford University Press), Oscar Wilde (Penguin).
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Marisa Tomei - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1.1 1964–83: Early life and career beginnings; 1.2 1984–2002: . Funniest Supporting Actress for Tamara Jenkins's cult film Slums of Beverly Hills, in which . Wait Until Dark (1998) and Oscar Wilde's Salomé (2003) alongside Al Pacino and .
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THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY LESSON PLAN BACKGROUND ...
(Environment, Housing, Pollution) City of contradictions- slums and suburbs . Oscar Wilde preached aestheticism and wanted to construct his life like an art .
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Ireland | The Sheila Variations
Mar 30, 2012 . He was the first major Irish playwright to deal with slum life and the . How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde, by Thomas Wright It is only .
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Penguin Clothbound Classics - Penguin Books
George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and . When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the wild Devon moorland with .
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The Picture of Dorian Gray Essay
In the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, the main character Dorian . soul only so that he could live without bearing the physical burdens of aging and. . Sibyl Vane, a young actress who performs in a theater in London's slums.
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goldencockroach | We are citizens of Pottstown, Pa working together ...
Mar 21, 2012 . Slumlord: A landlord/lady who refuses to live up to his/her legal responsibilities to his/her tenants, neighbors and the municipality. GET A LOAD .
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Challenges to Victorian Masculinity in Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll ...
people of the lower class sank deeper into the darkness of their slums. In addition . breed virtuous English children, and live quietly in the confines of the household. . Bram Stoker?s Dracula and Oscar Wilde?s Picture of Dorian Gray are two .
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The Roots of Gay Oppression - International Socialist Review
In contrast to the prosperous middle class, industrial life was literally killing the . When the famous British writer Oscar Wilde was convicted of sodomy in 1895 and . which was crowded into one-room tenements and slums where social rules .
http://www.isreview.org/issues/37/gay_oppression.shtml

Anecdotes about George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Hesketh Pearson, The Life of Oscar Wilde (1946), p. . or slum-landlord, or whatever he may have been; and I know he was to carry on in the most heroic fashion .
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Dada and dadaism : Paris
The room inside was horrific: "an unbelievable slum, an unforgettable rubbish heap". There was . Like Oscar Wilde, his genius was in his life as much as his art.
http://www.dadart.com/dadaism/dada/024-dada-paris.html

London Walks on Saturday Guided Tours of London Walking Tours
The London of Oscar Wilde. Old Camden Town · The Beatles "In My Life" Walk . His life came crashing down...mired in scandal and broken in three of the . May 12, The Hidden West End Gin City, the Seven Deadly Dials, the Slum of Slums .
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Academy of Contemporary English - Stylish writing in English
An honest and natural slum dialect is more tolerable than the attempt of a phonetically untaught person to imitate the vulgar dialect of the golf club. . Oscar Wilde in a lecture to Americans on interior decorating . It is a necessity of human life.
http://www.academy-contemporary-english.org.uk/special_style2.html

Oscar Lewis - eNotes.com Reference
Oscar Lewis (born Lefkowitz, December 25, 1914, New York City- died . who is best known for his vivid depictions of the lives of slum dwellers and for postulating that . What are figures of speech in the ''The Devoted Friend'' by Oscar Wilde?
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