Oscar Wilde
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Description
An adaptation of Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest," in which Jack Worthing creates a fictitious brother Ernest who lives in London to escape his dull country routine, but finds the lie backfiring when he falls in love. Includes activities and information about the author.
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"When an American family moves to the infamous Canterville Chase in England, they are haunted by a 300-year-old ghost: Sir Simon de Canterville! And when Sir Simon and the family's teenage daughter, Virginia, start plotting together to get her family back to New York, Virginia 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, she joins her new neighbor,...
28) The happy prince
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The statue of the Happy Prince comes to life and talks to the little swallow, who is convinced to take the jewels out of the statue for the good of others.
30) An ideal husband
Pub. Date
[1999]
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.
31) A good woman
Description
A notorious seductress enters a gossipy society and entices the husband of a faithful young woman, delighting the gossips and prompting a series of unexpected consequences.
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Ten timeless Claymation stories featuring classic characters like Rip Van Winkle and The Velveteen Rabbit as well as adaptations of works by Leo Tolstoy and Oscar Wilde. Narration by Stockard Channing, James Earl Jones, and more. Includes: The Little Prince, The Velveteen Rabbit, The Star Child, God's Trombones, Michael the Visitor, The First Christmas, The Chimes, A Christmas Gift, Rip Van Winkle, and Martin the Cobbler.
The little prince: The Little...
Pub. Date
[2002]
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...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
When an American family comes to England to claim their inherited ancient ancestral castle, the restless spirit of Sir Simon, refusing to share his home, instigates all manner of fiendish tricks intended to scare the new owners off the premises. In the end, the 300-year-old ghost finds an unexpected friend in an American teenager.
Description
Restoration: Robert Merivel is a young man who seems to have everything...until an affair leads to scandel, suddenly leaving him heartbroken and penniless.
An ideal husband: A politician's spotless reputation is threatened by a dark secret from his past.
Her magesty, Mrs. Brown: John Brown is a lowly servant who looks after Queen Victoria's horses. Yet when circumstances bring them together, the result is a passionate friendship.
Tom & Viv: A...
Pub. Date
p2005
Description
Reginald on house parties / Saki - The Sphinx without a secret / Oscar Wilde -- Tobermory / Saki -- On being idle / Jerome K. Jerome -- For better or worse / W. W. Jacobs -- The model millionaire / Oscar Wilde -- The garden of truth / E. Nesbit -- The cat that walked by himself / Rudyard Kipling -- The girl from Arles / Alphonse Daudet -- Mr. & Mrs. Dove / Katherine Mansfield -- Georgie Porgie / Rudyard Kipling -- Caterpillars / E. F. Benson -- Lost...
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