Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions


 * /Introduction/


 * Part One
 * 1) Oscar's Father and Mother on Trial
 * 2) Oscar Wilde as a Schoolboy
 * 3) Trinity, Dublin: Magdalen, Oxford
 * 4) Formative Influences: Oscar's Poems
 * 5) Oscar's Quarrel with Whistler and Marriage
 * 6) Oscar Wilde's Faith and Practice
 * 7) Oscar's Reputation and Supporters
 * 8) Oscar's Growth to Originality About 1890
 * 9) The Summer of Success: Oscar's First Play
 * 10) The First Meeting with Lord Alfred Douglas
 * 11) The Threatening Cloud Draws Nearer
 * 12) Danger Signals: the Challenge
 * 13) Oscar Attacks Queensberry and is Worsted
 * 14) How Genius is Persecuted in England
 * 15) The Queen vs. Wilde: The First Trial
 * 16) Escape Rejected: The Second Trial and Sentence

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 <li>The Last Hope Lost</li> <li>The End</li> <li>A Last Word</li> </ol>
 * Part Two


 * Memories of Oscar Wilde, by George Bernard Shaw