Bibliograph

Oscar Wilde, the unrepentant years, Nicholas Frankel

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Oscar Wilde, the unrepentant years, Nicholas Frankel

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

portraitsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Oscar Wilde

Responsibility statement

Nicholas Frankel

Sub title

the unrepentant years

Summary

Nicholas Frankel presents a revisionary account of Oscar Wilde's final years, spent in poverty and exile in Europe following his release from an English prison for the crime of gross indecency between men. Despite repeated setbacks and open hostility, Wilde--unapologetic and even defiant--attempted to rebuild himself as a man, and a man of letters

Table Of Contents

Part one. The prison years, 1895-1897: Fettered and chained -- From the depths -- Part two. Oscar Wilde in exile, 1897-1900: Release -- The pursuit of love -- The Ballad of Reading Gaol -- The seduction of Paris -- A confraternity of the damned -- The solace of spectatorship -- Decline and death

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