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by: Oscar Wilde
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 822.8
EAN: 9780486421278
ISBN: 0486421279
Label: Dover Publications
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 64
Publication Date: August 14, 2002
Publisher: Dover Publications
Sales Rank: 159140
Studio: Dover Publications
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Product Description:
An Audio version of Oscar Wilde's famous play; originally produced by the CBC.
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Rating:  - It could be a perfect opera
Oscar Wilde touches here a fundamental subject in Christian lore : Salome and John the Baptist, and through them Jesus and the prophesy that he is the Messiah. It would be a perfect subject for an opera because the events are contained in too short a time and the feelings and motivations are too simple and intensely concentrated for a dramaruc play. Salome asks for John's head out of spite because she could not possess him, because he refused to acknowledge her, and also because she knows this will ... Read More
Rating: - seductive Salome has a deadly dance
I found this book to a very quick and interesting read. Salome is both loved and feared by men. She uses her deadly seductive power to get anything she wants, almost.
The price of the book is so cheap how can you resist not buying it.
Rating:  - Powerful
This play is based on the biblical story of the death of John the Baptist. Herod Antipas, Tetrarch of Judea, is married to his brother's wife Herodias, but finds himself lusting after her daughter Salome. Overcome with wine and passion for Salome, he offers her anything to dance the dance of seven veils for him. Little does he know what price she will exact.
Oscar Wilde first published this book in Paris in 1891 in an attempt to bypass Victorian censorship. In 1894 it was translated into ... Read More
Rating: - A Simple Tale of Complex Pasison
This affordably-priced edition of Salome contains all the Aubrey Beardsley drawings and is the English translation undertaken by Lord Alfred Douglas of Wilde's most brilliant tale of passion, which was originally written in French to avoid (unsuccessfully) Victorian censorship. Salome is a simple tale of complex passion. Wilde's heroine bears no resemblance to her biblical origin. His Salome is no mere instrument of Herodias, but a dangerous and passionate young woman whose thwarted affections for ... Read More
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