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A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies

by Oscar Wilde

Level C1 · AdvancedHistorical42 chapters
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About this book

Explore the haunting beauty of Rome’s ancient streets as a critic reflects on the tomb of John Keats, weaving history, art, and poetry into a meditation on death, memory, and the enduring spirit of the poet.

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42 chapters in all. The first chapter is free to read with no account.

02KEATS’S SONNET ON BLUE (Century Guild Hobby Horse, July 1886.)
03p. 8DINNERS AND DISHES (Pall Mall Gazette, March 7, 1885.)
04SHAKESPEARE ON SCENERY (Dramatic Review, March 14, 1885.)
05HENRY THE FOURTH AT OXFORD (Dramatic Review, May 23, 1885.)
06A HANDBOOK TO MARRIAGE (Pall Mall Gazette, November 18, 1885.)
07p. 21TO READ OR NOT TO READ (Pall Mall Gazette, February 8, 1886.)
08THE LETTERS OF A GREAT WOMAN (Pall Mall Gazette, March 6, 1886.)
09BÉRANGER IN ENGLAND (Pall Mall Gazette, April 21, 1886.)
10THE POETRY OF THE PEOPLE (Pall Mall Gazette, May 13, 1886.)
11THE CENCI (Dramatic Review, May 15, 1886.)
12BALZAC IN ENGLISH (Pall Mall Gazette, September 13, 1886.)

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