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Book The Green Carnation

Download or read book The Green Carnation written by Robert Hichens and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Green Carnation

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  • Author : Robert Hichens
  • Publisher : Lilliban Arts, LLC
  • Release : 2021-03-10
  • ISBN : 9781637031353
  • Pages : 170 pages

Download or read book The Green Carnation written by Robert Hichens and published by Lilliban Arts, LLC. This book was released on 2021-03-10 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Green Carnation, first published anonymously by Robert Hichens was a scandalous novel whose lead characters are closely based on Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas - also known as "Bosie", whom the author personally knew. Lord Reggie Hastings slips a green carnation into his evening coat before attending a dinner party at Belgrave Square. He converses with Mr. Esmé Amarinth, a married playwright, and Lady Locke, a young widow. Some days later, Lord Reggie, Lady Locke, and Amarinth are guests at Mrs. Windsor's home in Surrey. Lady Locke is initially attracted by Lord Reggie, but becomes increasingly disturbed by his wearing of the green carnation and what it symbolizes about his attitude to life. Lord Reggie tells her that Esmé invented the flower, and that it is only worn by a few people who are followers of "the higher philosophy". Lord Reggie is not looking to marry, but he decides that the good natured and wealthy Lady Locke would make him a useful wife. Yet although she is still fond of the gentleman, she has realized their incompatibility. At the end of the novel, she firmly rejects his proposal, telling Lord Reggie that he should never ask another woman to marry him so long as he wears a green carnation. Lady Locke then decides to take her young son Tommy to the seaside. Meanwhile, Lord Reggie and Amarinth return to London together.

Book The Green Carnation

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  • Author : Robert Hichens
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1894
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book The Green Carnation written by Robert Hichens and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Green Carnations

Download or read book Green Carnations written by Moxie Lofton and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Green Carnations, Glas na Gile, compiled and published in 2020, is an anthology of verse from twenty-five contributing LGBT+ poets on the island of Ireland.The book charts the ups and downs of first loves, longer partnered relationships and sexual encounters.If "the heart is a lonely hunter", the poets featured know the terrain.Theirs is a country where the motley of individuality is struggled with and worn. No tiresome sameness in the verse, but, at their best brave lines and voices heard and felt at the raw nerve of human existence, what it means to be human in an LGBT+ context. One that is as old as and older still than the creatorly plains of genesis.The poets are gathered by their first names, or initials, and range in age from the late teens, -some in their final Leaving Certificate Year 2020 - to the thirties. The same-sex Irish Marriage 2015 Referendum passed by a majority of the electorate (celebrated in some poems) is a line in the sand to be lived with, accepted and celebrated.Each poet was requested to contribute a short biography and to introduce the poems. Some poets prefer to use a pseudonym. Some accompany their poems with artwork. All struggle with identity, who they are. Individuality rather than editorial sameness is reflected where possible.Sometimes something of a sharedness of serenity is achieved. More often than not the growing pains, loves, endearments and durabilities that are anyone's in a relationship.The book is essentially a young person's anthology, a sharing among contributors and with readers as all face a common future.

Book The Green Carnation

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  • Author : Robert Hichens
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1970
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Green Carnation written by Robert Hichens and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Green Carnation

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  • Author : Robert Smythe Hichens
  • Publisher : Good Press
  • Release : 2022-01-06
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 126 pages

Download or read book The Green Carnation written by Robert Smythe Hichens and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Green Carnation' is a satire on the relationship between Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas and is a wicked window into the period. The title refers to green carnations as a corsage, a style prevalent in the 1890s about queer sexuality and decadence. It was one of the works used against Wilde in his prosecution, and its sale was banned during his trials.

Book The Green Carnation

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  • Author : Robert Smythe Hichens
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9781411691513
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Green Carnation written by Robert Smythe Hichens and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Carnation

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  • Author : Twigs Way
  • Publisher : Reaktion Books
  • Release : 2016-11-15
  • ISBN : 1780236816
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Carnation written by Twigs Way and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From wedding bouquets to funeral wreaths, carnations can be seen everywhere in human culture. Their colorful but delicately folded petals have made them one of the foremost decorative flowers, from the gardens of the Ottoman Empire to American Mothers Day bouquets, via Chinese medicines and French Empresses. In this book, Twigs Way explores the extraordinary history of this inimitable flower. The author traces the trials and tribulations of early breeders—compelled by florists’ fascinations for the striped and spotted—which led to delightfully colored (and delightfully named) varieties such as Lustie Gallant and Bleeding Swain. She looks at the symbolism of the red and white—and even green—carnations made famous by Oscar Wilde, and glides through many of the rooms in literature and history that we have filled with the carnation’s glorious scent. Travelling from Europe to China, Way explores how carnations have been used by herbalists the world over as a treatment for ailments to both mind and body, and she looks at the many paintings that have attempted to capture their unique complexities. Lavishly illustrated and full of unexpected delights, this book will—like the carnation itself—charm the mind and invigorate the senses.

Book The Green Carnation

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  • Author : Robert Hichens
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-05-22
  • ISBN : 9781955741002
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Green Carnation written by Robert Hichens and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The charming aesthete Esmé Amarinthe and his beautiful young acolyte Reggie Hastings live for art and artifice and reject all that is natural and "middle-class". When in the society of their peers, Esmé and Reggie elucidate and pontificate through endless epigrams and ironies that shock and entertain.But when a very real proposition of marriage to a wealthy widow enters the equation, Reggie wonders if he should go through with it, or continue his life of passionate paradox with Mr. Amarinthe.Robert Hichen's satire of Oscar Wilde is a romp that skewers the aesthetic ideals of the era while at the same time delighting in them.

Book The Green Carnation

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  • Author : Smythe Robert Hichens
  • Publisher : IndyPublish.com
  • Release : 2008-07-01
  • ISBN : 9781437827569
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book The Green Carnation written by Smythe Robert Hichens and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Green Carnation

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  • Author : R S Hichens
  • Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
  • Release : 2014-08-07
  • ISBN : 9781498190183
  • Pages : 214 pages

Download or read book The Green Carnation written by R S Hichens and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1894 Edition.

Book The Green Carnation

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  • Author : R. Hichens
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-03-26
  • ISBN : 9781544913452
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book The Green Carnation written by R. Hichens and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-26 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published anonymously in 1894, The Green Carnation created a scandal that contributed to Oscar Wilde's downfall and was withdrawn from print for many years afterwards. Hichens was a friend of Wilde, but in love with 'Bosie'. He exacted revenge for his frustrated feelings by assiduously, and secretly, noting down their conversations, both public and more intimate and using them in this cruel satire on Wilde and his circle. Despite the less than sublime motivation behind its creation, the novel nevertheless preserves many examples of Wilde's brilliant wit which may have been otherwise lost to us and no one who loves his work should neglect this curious Edwardian production.

Book The Language of Flowers Coloring Book

Download or read book The Language of Flowers Coloring Book written by John Green and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2004-01-23 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attractive, accurately rendered collection of 30 floral beauties, with brief captions describing what each flower symbolizes. Includes the anemone (anticipation), buttercup (riches), red rose (romantic love), carnation (fidelity), poppy (extravagance), and 25 others. A treat for coloring book fans, flower lovers, and gardening enthusiasts.

Book The Passion of the Purple Plumeria

Download or read book The Passion of the Purple Plumeria written by Lauren Willig and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED! Lauren Willig’s Pink Carnation novels have been hailed as “sheer fun”* and “charming.”** Now she takes readers on an adventure filled with hidden treasure and a devilishly handsome English colonel.... Colonel William Reid has returned home from India to retire near his children, who are safely stowed at an academy in Bath. Upon his return to the Isles, however, he finds that one of his daughters has vanished, along with one of her classmates. Because she served as second-in-command to the Pink Carnation, one of England’s most intrepid spies, it would be impossible for Gwendolyn Meadows to give up the intrigue of Paris for a quiet life in the English countryside—especially when she’s just overheard news of an alliance forming between Napoleon and an Ottoman Sultan. But, when the Pink Carnation’s little sister goes missing from her English boarding school, Gwen reluctantly returns home to investigate the girl’s disappearance. Thrown together by circumstance, Gwen and William must cooperate to track down the young ladies before others with nefarious intent get their hands on them. But Gwen’s partnership with quick-tongued, roguish William may prove to be even more of an adventure for her than finding the lost girls…. READERS GUIDE INCLUDED *New York Times Bestselling Author Christina Dodd **Kirkus Reviews

Book The Secret History of the Pink Carnation

Download or read book The Secret History of the Pink Carnation written by Lauren Willig and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-12-27 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing goes right for Eloise. The one day she wears her new suede boots, it rains cats and dogs. When the subway stops short, she’s always the one thrown into some stranger’s lap. Plus, she’s had more than her share of misfortune in the way of love. In fact, ever since she realized romantic heroes are a thing of the past, she’s decided it’s time for a fresh start. Setting off for England, Eloise is determined to finish her dissertation on that dashing pair of spies, the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian. But what she discovers is something the finest historians have missed: the secret history of the Pink Carnation—the most elusive spy of all time. As she works to unmask this obscure spy, Eloise stumbles across answers to all kinds of questions. Like how did the Pink Carnation save England from Napoleon? What became of the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian? And will Eloise Kelly escape her bad luck and find a living, breathing hero all her own?

Book The Green Carnation  a Novel

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  • Author : Robert Smythe Hichens
  • Publisher : Palala Press
  • Release : 2015-09-01
  • ISBN : 9781341146954
  • Pages : 222 pages

Download or read book The Green Carnation a Novel written by Robert Smythe Hichens and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Green Carnation

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  • Author : Hichens Robert Smythe
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 9780259633884
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Green Carnation written by Hichens Robert Smythe and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: