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Oscar Wilde : his life and confessions /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harris, Frank, 1856-1931 (Author)
Other Authors: Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950, Hylan, John Francis, 1868-1936 (dedicatee (item))
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York City : Printed and published by the author, MCMXVIII [1918]
Subjects:
Wilde, Oscar, > 1854-1900.
Authors, Irish > 19th century > Biography.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Oscar's father and mother on trial
  • Oscar Wilde as a schoolboy
  • Trinity, Dublin: Magdalen, Oxford
  • Formative influences: Oscar's poems
  • Oscar 's quarrel with Whistler: marriage
  • Oscar Wilde's faith and practice
  • Oscar's reputation and supporters
  • Oscar's growth to originality-about 1890
  • The summer of success: Oscar's first play
  • The first meeting with Lord Alfred Douglas
  • The threatening cloud draws nearer
  • Danger signals: the challenge
  • Oscar attacks queensberry and is worsted
  • How genius is persecuted in England
  • The queen vs. Wilde: the first trial
  • Escape rejected: the second trial and sentence
  • Prison and the effects of punishment
  • Mitigation of punishment; but not release
  • His St. Martin's summer: his best work
  • The results of his second fall: his genius
  • His sense or rivalry; his love of life and laziness
  • "A great romantic passion!"
  • His judgements of writers and of women
  • We argue about his "pet vice" and punishment
  • The last hope lost
  • The end
  • The last word.