Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications.

Oscar Wilde

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Topic

Men and women Life as performance

Author

Oscar Wilde

Source

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime Lord Arthur Savile's Crime: The Portrait of Mr. W.H. and Other Stories

Medium

Short story

Language

English

Time

1891 1890s 19th century

Occupation

Playwright Writer

From

Ireland Europe

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Original Citation

Wilde, Oscar. "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime." Lord Arthur Savile's Crime: The Portrait of Mr. W.H. and Other Stories. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1891.

Current Citation

Wilde, Oscar. "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime." Oscar Wilde: The Major Works, edited by Isobel Murray. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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My task... To make you hear, to make you feel—it is, before all, to make you see. That—and no more, and it is everything.

Joseph Conrad

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Topic
Artist and audience

Author

Joseph Conrad
Source
The Nigger of the Narcissus
Medium
Novel
Language
English
Time
1897 1890s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Conrad, Joseph. The Nigger of the "Narcissus": A Tale of the Forecastle. London: Heinemann, 1897, preface.

Current Citation

Conrad, Joseph. "The Nigger of the '"Narcissus.'" The Secret Sharer and Other Stories. W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, preface.

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Why are women…so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own

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Topic
Men and women

Author

Virginia Woolf
Source
A Room of One's Own
Medium
Essay
Genre
Feminist literature
Language
English
Time
1929 1920s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Hogarth Press/Harcourt Brace & Co., 1929, ch. 2.

Current Citation

Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Mariner Books, 2005, ch. 2.