The Fritzwalden Legacy

In The Awakening, the sleepy coastal town of Harborview hides ancient, magical secrets. When Oliver Fritzwalden, an ordinary teenager, discovers his legacy as a descendant of the powerful Fritzwalden family, he finds himself caught up in a world surrounded by tragedy and mystery. The plot unfolds around Oliver s growth and when a supernatural event triggers the awakening of the latent magical powers of the descendants of the founding families. Oliver, along with the other nine teens, discovers that they are part of a magic circle meant to protect Harborview from an ancient threat that has resurfaced. Harborview is a town full of mysteries, where everything happens and no one seems to notice. Where magic exists for some and where everyday life is full of adventures and unexpected events.

In Oscar Wilde in Vienna, Sandra Mayer examines the reception and performance history of Oscar Wilde’s dramatic works on Viennese stages from the turn of the twentieth century up to the present.

Professor Kohl's aim is to gain fresh insight into his literary and critical œuvre of Oscar Wilde. He analyses each of his works on the basis of a textually oriented interpretation, taking equal account of the biographical and intellectual contexts through the use of contradictions that Wilde show as individualism and convention.

A materialist account of Wilde's career as a writer, Oscar Wilde's Profession contests three widely held assumptions about his success: that there is a clear distinction between his life as a journalist and his artistic celebrity; that he was an aesthetic 'purist' in his attitude towards his own books; and that his career was driven by an oppositional sexual or nationalist politics. The authors bring together evidence from the publishing trade, from Wilde's contracts and correspondence with publishers, and from documentation about his earnings (particularly the plays) to show that he always worked for money, but that he achieved far less financial success than is usually thought. Far from subverting the nascent consumerism of his time, he was thoroughly immersed in its values--in the commodification of culture in which books became product. At the same time, Oscar Wilde's Profession provides a uniquely detailed account of Wilde's processes of composition, springing from the re-examination of his writing practice currently being undertaken in the Oxford English Texts edition of his complete work: it surveys his writing practices across the whole of the oeuvre, and radically reinterprets the significance of his revision and 'plagiarism'.