The world of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and the Ozian cannon
There are few households that haven’t heard of the Wizard of OZ, and the franchise has gone in a multitude of directions, most recently the major Hollywood film: Oz the great and powerful. There has also been the highly successful spin off book series, Wicked by Gregory Maguire which has also been reworked into the highly…
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Literature Discussion: Will Self’s Dorian, an imitation
Dorian by Will Self is a charming walk in a cesspit of debauchery. It is a strange, re-invention of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, and offers the same lack of redemption. Will Self takes the sexual debauchery of Wilds Dorian and turns it into a nasty, Drug fuelled, violent den of sexual gratification and pleasure seeking.…
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Literature discussion: Oscar Wilde’s, The Picture of Dorian Gray
For many years, I have wanted to read Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. It has intrigued me mostly because I cannot remember when I learnt of its story. I knew I had not read the novel. But The Picture of Dorian Gray is in many ways a legend like Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of …
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