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Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions

by Frank Harris

Consumers of biography are familiar with the division between memoirs of the living or recently dead written by those who "knew" the subject more or less intimately, and the more objective or scholarly accounts produced by later generations. In the case of Wilde, as presented to us by Frank Harris, we are in a way doubly estranged from the subject. We meet with Oscar the charismatic talker, whose tone of voice can never be reproduced – even if a more scrupulous biographer had set down his words accurately – and we are perhaps already aware of him as Wilde the self-destructive celebrity who uneasily fills the place of the premier gay icon and martyr in our contemporary view.

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Language

English

Original Language

English

Published In

1915

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Frank Harris was an Irish-American editor, novelist, short story writer, journalist and publisher, who was friendly with many well-known figures of his day. Born in Ireland, he emigrated to the Unite...

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01 - I. Oscar\'s Father and Mother on Trial
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02 - II. Oscar Wilde as a Schoolboy
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03 - III. Trinity, Dublin: Magdalen, Oxford
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04 - IV. Formative Influences: Oscar\'s Poems
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05 - V. Oscar\'s Quarrel with Whistler and Marriage
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06 - VI. Oscar Wilde\'s Faith and Practice
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07 - VII. Oscar\'s Reputation and Supporters
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08 - VIII. Oscar\'s Growth to Originality About 1890
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09 - IX. The Summer of Success: Oscar\'s First Play
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10 - X. The First Meeting with Lord Alfred Douglas
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11 - XI. The Threatening Cloud Draws Nearer
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12 - XII. Danger Signals: the Challenge
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13 - XIII. Oscar Attacks Queensberry and is Worsted
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14 - XIV. How Genius is Persecuted in England
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15 - XV. The Queen vs. Wilde: The First Trial
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16 - XVI. Escape Rejected: The Second Trial and Sentence
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17 - XVII. Prison and the Effects of Punishment
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18 - XVIII. Mitigation of Punishment\; but not Release
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19 - XIXa. His St. Martin\'s Summer: His Best Work - Part One
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20 - XIXb. His St. Martin\'s Summer: His Best Work - Part Two
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21 - XX. The Results of His Second Fall: His Genius
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22 - XXI. His Sense of Rivalry\; His Love of Life and Laziness
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23 - XXII. 'A Great Romantic Passion!'
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24 - XXIII. His Judgments of Writers and of Women
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25 - XXIV. We Argue About His 'Pet Vice' and Punishment
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26 - XXV. The Last Hope Lost
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27 - XXVI. The End
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28 - XXVII. A Last Word
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