Join Lisa VanDamme as she guides you through The Nightingale and the Rose by Oscar Wilde. To learn more about Read With Me visit https://readwithmesalon.com

An extension of the one woman stage play. Constance is all but forgotten in modern literature, despite being a celebrity in her time, an early feminist and a writer. When she is remembered, it is as the wife of Oscar Wilde. In this podcast, we explore Constance's life through excerpts and letters she wrote, put together with things we knew were happening in her life at the time. From leaving her mother's house in her teens through to just before her death, we trace the story of a fascinating ...

"The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde is a mesmerizing tale of vanity, corruption, and the consequences of indulgence. Set in Victorian London, it follows the story of Dorian Gray, a young man whose portrait ages while he remains eternally youthful due to a Faustian bargain. As Dorian descends into a life of hedonism and moral decay, the portrait becomes a haunting reflection of his inner darkness, leading to a chilling climax that explores the limits of beauty, morality, and the pursu ...

An American diplomat's family moves into an ancient stately mansion. They're warned by the owner that it is haunted by a most horrifying and gruesome spirit who had once cruelly murdered his own wife. The story progresses with creaking floor boards, mysterious passages, dark attics, clanking chains, and weird howling. Yet, the reader is totally unprepared for Oscar Wilde's brand of tongue in cheek humor as he takes all the ingredients of a traditional ghost story and turns it on its head, an ...

This story opens at a fashionable dinner party in Sir Robert Chiltern's home in the heart of London's stylish Grosvenor Square. One of Lady Chiltern's old school-friends, Mrs. Cheveley, a woman with a dubious past, accosts Sir Robert and threatens to expose a financial crime that he had once participated in, unless he agrees to finance a fraudulent construction project that she's promoting. Lady Chiltern is astounded when her husband who had been the severest critic of this project suddenly ...