Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions, by Frank Harris

Introduction

Chapter:

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
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
17. Prison and the Effects of Punishment
18. Mitigation of Punishment; but not Release
19. His St. Martin’s Summer: His Best Work
20. The Results of His Second Fall: His Genius
21. His Sense of Rivalry; His Love of Life and Laziness
22. “A Great Romantic Passion!”
23. His Judgments of Writers and of Women
24. We Argue About His “Pet Vice” and Punishment
25. The Last Hope Lost
26. The End
27. A Last Word

Memories of Oscar Wilde, by G. Bernard Shaw

Appendix

1. Two poems of Lord Alfred Douglas
2. The Unpublished Portion of “De Profundis”
3. Oscar Wilde’s Kindness of Heart
4. My Coldness Towards Oscar in 1897
5. The Mystery of Personality
6. The Dedication of “An Ideal Husband”
7. Mrs. Wilde’s Epitaph
8. Sonnet
9. The Story of “Mr. And Mrs. Daventry”
10. Oscar’s Last Days!
11. Criticisms By Robert Ross
12. The Soul of Man Under Socialism
13. A Last Word
14. The End.