Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions
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The crucifixion of the guilty is still
more awe-inspiring than the crucifixion of the innocent;
what do we men know of innocence?—
- Part One
- 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 and 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
- Part Two
- 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 of Rivalry; His Love of Life and Laziness
- "A Great Romantic Passion!"
- His Judgments of Writers and of Women
- We Argue About His "Pet Vice" and Punishment
- The Last Hope Lost
- The End
- A Last Word
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