Model Number: BBFEBBASE_17611DLDA
Author: Wilde, Oscar
This selection of critical writings reveals a different side of the great writer-the deep and serious reader of literature and philosophy, and the eloquent and original thinker about society and art. This illuminating collection includes The Portrait of Mr. W. H., In Defense of Dorian Gray, reviews, ...more »
Model Number: BBFEBBASE_17614DLDA
Author: Rohmer, Sax
This novel may have been prompted in part by the death of Billie Carleton, a London showgirl who performed in the Armistice Victory Celebration at Albert Hall and died in her hotel room later that night of an overdose--presumably opium obtained in Limehouse. The incident led to an official five year ...more »
Model Number: BBFEBBASE_17615DLDA
Author: Rohmer, Sax
Rohmer decided to describe a seemingly impossible murder and then solve it as he continued to write. By the end of the third chapter, he realized he had left no room for a solution and gave up. Meanwhile his agent had sold the story to Collier's for serialization and the first chapter had already been ...more »
