Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions — Volume 1
by Frank Harris
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. ... chapter xiv The English are very proud of their sense of justice, proud too of their Roman law and the practice of the Courts in which they have incorporated it. They boast of their fair play in all things as the French boast of their lightness, and if you question it, you lose caste with them, as one prejudiced or ignorant or both. English justice cannot be bought, they say, and...
Chapters (20)
- CONTENTS
- VOLUME I
- VOLUME II
- 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
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