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The secret life of Oscar Wilde /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McKenna, Neil
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, [2005]
Subjects:
Wilde, Oscar, > 1854-1900.
Wilde, Oscar, > 1854-1900 > Relations with men.
Sex customs > England > London > History > 19th century.
Authors, Irish > 19th century > Biography.
Gay men > Great Britain > Biography.
London (England) > Social life and customs > 19th century.
Table of Contents:
  • May 1895
  • Wonder and remorse
  • Tea and beauties
  • A little in love
  • Nothing but my genius
  • Freedom from sordid care
  • The marriage cure
  • Against nature
  • An ideal wife
  • Playing with fire
  • Mad and coloured loves
  • Poets and lovers
  • Æolian harps
  • Spiritualised sodomy
  • Shadow and song
  • John and Dorian
  • Scarlet threads
  • Outlawed noblemen
  • Apples of Sodom
  • Wild and terrible music
  • Strange green flowers
  • Hyacinth and narcissus
  • Gay, gilt and gracious
  • Prophets and priests
  • For love or money
  • Feasting with panthers
  • The madness of kisses
  • Brazen candour
  • A pugilist of unsound mind
  • A schoolboy with wonderful eyes
  • On a gilded barge
  • The scarlet marquis
  • The boys on the beach
  • The arsenic flower
  • Love's sacrifice
  • Passionate fauns
  • Hideous words
  • Raking piccadilly
  • Vexed and persecuted lovers
  • Fighting with panthers
  • So very ugly
  • Kill the bugger!
  • Oscar at bay
  • The love that dares to speak its name
  • A foul and dark latrine
  • Bitter waters
  • From the depths
  • Comfort and despair
  • Two outcast men
  • A joy-song.