Gerry O'brien
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The Picture of Dorian Gray (EN)
Oscar Wilde: The classic Oscar Wilde story brought to life. “The Picture of Dorian Gray” begins on a beautiful summer day in Victorian era England, where Lord Henry Wotton, an opinionated man, is observing the sensitive artist Basil Hallward painting the portrait of
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The Happy Prince and Other Tales (EN)
Oscar Wilde: “The Happy Prince and Other Tales” (sometimes called “The Happy Prince and Other Stories”) is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde first published in May 1888. It contains five stories: “The Happy Prince”, “The Nightingale and the Rose”, “
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Green Tea (EN)
Sheridan Le Fanu: “Green Tea” tells the haunting story of a man plagued by a demonic monkey. The unnamed narrator, a trained surgeon who can’t practice because of the loss of two of his fingers, is organising the papers of his deceased mentor, the famous German physicia
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (EN)
James Joyce: “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. A Künstlerroman in a modernist style, it traces the intellectual and religious philosophical awakening of young Stephen Dedalus, a fictional alter ego of Joyce and
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Dubliners (EN)
James Joyce: “Dubliners” is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, which was first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The initial stories in the coll
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War of the Worlds (EN)
H. G. Wells: This classic, early 19th century science fiction masterpiece serves as both a wonderful period presentation of the time as well as a cautionary tale. Called by many a “chilling novel account of a Martian invasion of London in the nineteenth century – a