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The theme of public attention and appearance runs like a bright thread through nearly all of Oscar Wilde’s plays and stories. In The Importance of Being Earnest, it is far more important to be “Ernest” than to be earnest, because the name itself carries an aura of desirability: the illusion is more powerful than the reality. Throughout Wilde’s fiction, reality and illusion—truth...
Oscar Wilde was fascinated by the concept of duty—not by its nobility, but by its absurdity. He delighted in exposing the ridiculous extremes to which humans will go when they allow social or moral obligation to govern their lives. In his work, duty often becomes a source of comic tension, revealing how blindly adhering to socially constructed expectations can produce outcomes b...
It’s 1982. The narrator, Steve Witowski (an alias), is a failed songwriter and fugitive, already trying to escape his past. One night he intervenes to save a woman named Victoria from a brutal assault by a seemingly unstoppable attacker. Rather than moving on, Steve becomes entangled with Victoria, who has just purchased a dilapidated church with a dark, haunting past. As Steve ...
This post has been an extremely long time in coming. As I've mentioned in many previous articles, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is both my favorite story and the high-mark of my personal, literary expertise. Washington Irving has his own designated bookshelf in my living room (not including my collection of illustrated "Legend of Sleepy Hollow" editions), I was accepted into gra...
Even outside of supernatural fiction circles, “The Bottle Imp” is among Stevenson’s most celebrated short stories. Its reputation stands alongside other perennial classics of the short form—Jacobs’ “The Monkey’s Paw,” Irving’s “The Devil and Tom Walker,” Bierce’s “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” London’s “To Build a Fire,” and O. Henry’s “The Gift of the Magi.” Like these ta...
