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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 :
  • 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 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 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 : 2016-02-16
  • ISBN : 9781530059683
  • Pages : 96 pages

Download or read book The Green Carnation written by Robert Smythe Hichens and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Green Carnation, first published anonymously in 1894, was a scandalous novel by Robert Hichens whose lead characters are closely based on Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas - also known as "Bosie", whom the author personally knew. It was an instant succès de scandale on both sides of the Atlantic.The reviewer for The Observer wrote, "The Green Carnation will be read and discussed by everyone... nothing so impudent, so bold, or so delicious has been printed these many years."The book features the characters of "Esmé Amarinth" (Wilde), and "Lord Reginald (Reggie) Hastings" (Douglas). The words put in the mouths of the hero and his young friend in the story are mostly gathered from the sayings of their originals. Robert Hichens spent nearly a year "in the company of the men" and was able to accurately recreate the atmosphere and relationship between Oscar and Bosie.The book was withdrawn from circulation in 1895, but by that time the damage had been done. Wilde soon stood three consecutive trials for gross indecency and was sentenced to two years at hard labor. The Green Carnation was one of the works used against him by the prosecution.The Green Carnation was republished in 1948 with an introduction by the author, which also included Wilde's letter to the Pall Mall Gazette, October 2, 1894 denying he was the anonymous author. It was reissued in paperback in this form in 1992, and republished again in 2006 as a hardcover with a foreword by Anthony Wynn.

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 : 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  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 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. 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 Green Carnation

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  • Author : R S Hichens
  • Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
  • Release : 2014-08-07
  • ISBN : 9781498164085
  • 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  Classic Reprint

Download or read book The Green Carnation Classic Reprint written by Robert Smythe Hichens and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-27 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Green Carnation He slipped a green carnation into his evening coat, fixed it in its place with a pin, and looked at himself in the glass, the long glass that stood near the window of his London bedroom. The summer evening was so bright that he could see his double clearly, even though it was just upon seven o'clock. There he stood in his favourite and most characteristic attitude, with his left knee slightly bent, and his arms hanging at his sides, gazing, as a woman gazes at herself before she starts for a party. The low and continuous murmur of Piccadilly, like the murmur of a flowing tide on a smooth beach, stole to his ears monotonously, and inclined him insensibly to a certain thoughtfulness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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:

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 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 Green CARNATION

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  • Author : Robert Hichens Smythe
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-07
  • ISBN : 9789387867987
  • Pages : 138 pages

Download or read book The Green CARNATION written by Robert Hichens Smythe and published by . This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He slipped a green carnation into his evening coat, fixed it in its place with a pin, and looked at himself in the glass, the long glass that stood near the window of his London bedroom. The summer evening was so bright that he could see his double clearly, even though it was just upon seven o'clock. There he stood in his favourite and most characteristic attitude, with his left knee slightly bent, and his arms hanging at his sides, gazing, as a woman gazes at herself before she starts for a party.

Book What Belongs to You

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  • Author : Garth Greenwell
  • Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Release : 2016-01-19
  • ISBN : 0374713189
  • Pages : 209 pages

Download or read book What Belongs to You written by Garth Greenwell and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the National Book Award in Fiction • A Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction • A Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction • A Finalist for the James Taite Black Prize for Fiction • A Finalist the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize • A Finalist for the Green Carnation Prize • A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • A Los Angeles Times Bestseller Named One of the Best Books of the Year by More Than Fifty Publications, Including: The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Times (selected by Dwight Garner), GQ, The Washington Post, Esquire, NPR, Slate, Vulture, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Guardian (London), The Telegraph (London), The Evening Standard (London), The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Miami Herald, The Millions, BuzzFeed, The New Republic (Best Debuts of the Year), Kirkus Reviews, and Publishers Weekly (One of the Ten Best Books of the Year) "Garth Greenwell's What Belongs to You appeared in early 2016, and is a short first novel by a young writer; still, it was not easily surpassed by anything that appeared later in the year....It is not just first novelists who will be envious of Greenwell's achievement."—James Wood, The New Yorker On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher enters a public bathroom beneath Sofia’s National Palace of Culture. There he meets Mitko, a charismatic young hustler, and pays him for sex. He returns to Mitko again and again over the next few months, drawn by hunger and loneliness and risk, and finds himself ensnared in a relationship in which lust leads to mutual predation, and tenderness can transform into violence. As he struggles to reconcile his longing with the anguish it creates, he’s forced to grapple with his own fraught history, the world of his southern childhood where to be queer was to be a pariah. There are unnerving similarities between his past and the foreign country he finds himself in, a country whose geography and griefs he discovers as he learns more of Mitko’s own narrative, his private history of illness, exploitation, and want. What Belongs to You is a stunning debut novel of desire and its consequences. With lyric intensity and startling eroticism, Garth Greenwell has created an indelible story about the ways in which our pasts and cultures, our scars and shames can shape who we are and determine how we love. A conversation between Garth Greenwell and Hanya Yanagihara is included inside the e-book edition.