A Florentine Tragedy; La Sainte Courtisane

Oscar Wilde

Transcribed from the 1915 Methuen & Co.

Oscar Wilde

CHAPTER 1 The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, ...

Oscar Wilde

Suffering is one very long moment.

Oscar Wilde

36 ESSEX STREET W.C. LONDON _Sixteenth Edition_ _First Published_ _1893_ _First Issued b...

Washington Irving

A pleasing land of drowsy head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, Forever flushing round a summer sky.

Ayn Rand

PART ONE It is a sin to write this.

Aristophanes

statement is made that it may be rejected.

William Strunk

This book aims to give in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style.