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Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions, Volume 1

by Frank Harris

CONTENTS

VOLUME I

Introduction

Chapter I—Oscar's Father and Mother on Trial
Chapter II—Oscar Wilde as a Schoolboy
Chapter III—Trinity, Dublin: Magdalen, Oxford
Chapter IV—Formative Influences: Oscar's Poems
Chapter V—Oscar's Quarrel with Whistler and Marriage
Chapter VI—Oscar Wilde's Faith and Practice
Chapter VII—Oscar's Reputation and Supporters
Chapter VIII—Oscar's Growth to Originality About 1890
Chapter IX—The Summer of Success: Oscar's First Play
Chapter X—The First Meeting with Lord Alfred Douglas
Chapter XI—The Threatening Cloud Draws Nearer
Chapter XII—Danger Signals: the Challenge
Chapter XIII—Oscar Attacks Queensberry and is Worsted
Chapter XIV—How Genius is Persecuted in England
Chapter XV—The Queen vs. Wilde: The First Trial
Chapter XVI—Escape Rejected: The Second Trial and Sentence

VOLUME II

Chapter XVII—Prison and the Effects of Punishment
Chapter XVIII—Mitigation of Punishment; but not Release
Chapter XIX—His St. Martin's Summer: His Best Work
Chapter XX—The Results of His Second Fall: His Genius
Chapter XXI—His Sense of Rivalry; His Love of Life and Laziness
Chapter XXII—"A Great Romantic Passion!"
Chapter XXIII—His Judgments of Writers and of Women
Chapter XXIV—We Argue About His "Pet Vice" and Punishment
Chapter XXV—The Last Hope Lost
Chapter XXVI—The End
Chapter XXVII—A Last Word

Shaw's "Memories"

The Appendix

The crucifixion of the guilty is still more awe-inspiring than the crucifixionof the innocent; what do we men know of innocence?

INTRODUCTION

I was advised on all hands not to write this book, and some English friendswho have read it urge me not to publish it.

"You will be accused of selecting the subject," they say, "because sexualviciousness appeals to you, and your method of treatment lays you opento attack.

"You criticise and condemn the English conception of justice, and Englishlegal methods: you even question the impartiality of English judges, and throwan unpleasant light on English juries and the English public—all of which isnot only unpopular but will convince the unthinking that you are a presumptuous,or at least an outlandish, person with too good a conceit of himself andaltogether too free a tongue."

I should be more than human or less if these arguments did not give me pause.
I would do noth

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