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    A House of Pomegranates is a collection of fairy tales written by Oscar Wilde published in 1891 as a second collection for The Happy Prince and Other Tales...
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    engraved with pomegranates. Solomon is said to have designed his coronet based on the pomegranate's "crown" (calyx). Pomegranates are one of the Seven Species...
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  • Color of Pomegranates is a 1969 Soviet Armenian art film written and directed by Sergei Parajanov. The film is a poetic treatment of the life of 18th-century...
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    Dishes get a light sour taste because of narsharab. Recipes for narsharab vary. Commonly, unpeeled pomegranates are squeezed and heated to evaporate the...
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    and Other Stories, and in September A House of Pomegranates was dedicated "To Constance Mary Wilde". "The Portrait of Mr. W. H.", which Wilde had begun...
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    authorized edition of the novel was published by Charles Carrington. The original typescript submitted to Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, housed at UCLA, had...
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  • Child, a novel by Fred Mustard Stewart "The Star-Child", a story in the A House of Pomegranates collection by Oscar Wilde Starchild Trilogy, a 1960s science...
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    Merlin Holland (category English people of Irish descent)
    Merlin Vyvyan Holland (born December 1945) is a British biographer and editor. He is the only grandchild of Oscar Wilde, whose life he has researched and...
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    Cyril Holland (category British Army personnel of World War I)
    in his autobiography, Son of Oscar Wilde (1954), Oscar was a devoted and loving father to his two sons. Their childhood was a relatively happy one. However...
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    Constance Lloyd (category Irish people of English descent)
    became aware of her husband's homosexual relationships. In 1891 she met his lover Lord Alfred Douglas when Wilde brought him to their home for a visit. Around...
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    and translator. He was the second-born son of Irish playwright Oscar Wilde and Constance Lloyd, and had a brother, Cyril. John Ruskin was Oscar Wilde's...
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    consisting of: "The Happy Prince" "The Selfish Giant" "The Nightingale and the Rose" "The Devoted Friend" "The Remarkable Rocket" A House of Pomegranates (text)...
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  • subtle differences in the categorizing of fairy tales, folklore, fables, myths, and legends, a modern definition of the literary fairy tale, as provided...
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    The Canterville Ghost (category Short stories set in country houses)
    American Minister to the Court of St James's, Hiram B. Otis and his family move into Canterville Chase, an English country house, despite warnings from Lord...
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  • The Happy Prince and Other Tales (category Collections of fairy tales)
    holds exactly the same opinions." Music based on the works of Oscar Wilde A House of Pomegranates Wilde 2003, pp. 271–272. Wilde 2003, p. 272. Wilde 2003...
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  • spring up and many pomegranate trees. One of the pomegranates releases a fruit that is found by the gardener's wife. She releases a reborn Anarkali, and...
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    Lord Alfred Douglas (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    Wilde. Douglas was born at Ham Hill House in Powick, Worcestershire, the third son of John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry and his first wife, Sibyl...
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    and A House of Pomegranates (1891). Despite MacDonald's future influence, and Morris' popularity at the time, it was not until around the start of the...
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    William Wilde (category Alumni of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland)
    Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press. Belford, Barbara (2000) Oscar Wilde: A Certain Genius, Random House, Inc. ISBN 0679457348...
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    Charles Ricketts (category Articles with National Gallery of Canada identifiers)
    A House of Pomegranates (1891) and The Sphinx (1894), and painted, in the style of François Clouet, the hero of Wilde's short story, "The Portrait of...
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    Willie Wilde (category Alumni of Trinity College Dublin)
    born in the same house in 1854. Jane Wilde was a successful writer, being a poet for the revolutionary Young Irelanders in 1848 and a lifelong Irish nationalist...
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    Publishing. p. 20. ISBN 978-0691029450. "The Scandal of the Tomb of Oscar Wilde". Oscar Wilde House. 29 November 2021. Retrieved 29 April 2024. Pennington...
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    Remarkable Rocket" is a short fairytale that was first published in 1888 in The Happy Prince and Other Tales which is a collection of five fairytales written...
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    Prince and Other Stories (1888) and A House of Pomegranates (1891). H. Rider Haggard developed the conventions of the lost world subgenre with his novel...
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    afar the choice and size of typeface and the layout of the work. However, even the printing house hired to do the book demanded a change—for fear that the...
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    followed her to see where she went, discovering her stealthily going to a boarding house. He suspected there was another man, and confronted her the next day...
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    Decadent movement, particularly Huysmans' À rebours, the cat sonnets in Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal, and the poems of Maurice Rollinat. In particular, the...
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    be reconstructed as Asherah, instead of Yahweh. A goddess connection is bolstered by other ancient pomegranates. Heltzer 1996 said the two examples were...
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    near the domestic altar of the house to bring good luck, fertility and abundance. While the pomegranate was considered the fruit of the dead, it also had...
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  • With Oscar Wilde, a concert reading based on Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and The House of Pomegranates, with Dodd as one of the players. [citation...
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