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Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions

Name: Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions
Author: Frank Harris

Frank Harris

Read by Martin Geeson · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

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Author's Introduction (9:26)
I. Oscar's Father and Mother on Trial (36:50)
II. Oscar Wilde as a Schoolboy (22:57)
III. Trinity, Dublin: Magdalen, Oxford (23:29)
IV. Formative Influences: Oscar's Poems (41:04)
V. Oscar's Quarrel with Whistler and Marriage (30:37)
VI. Oscar Wilde's Faith and Practice (19:20)
VII. Oscar's Reputation and Supporters (17:27)
VIII. Oscar's Growth to Originality About 1890 (36:44)
IX. The Summer of Success: Oscar's First Play (19:28)
X. The First Meeting with Lord Alfred Douglas (21:50)
XI. The Threatening Cloud Draws Nearer (33:33)
XII. Danger Signals: the Challenge (47:05)
XIII. Oscar Attacks Queensberry and is Worsted (42:55)
XIV. How Genius is Persecuted in England (57:26)
XV. The Queen vs. Wilde: The First Trial (51:53)
XVI. Escape Rejected: The Second Trial and Sentence (52:18)
XVII. Prison and the Effects of Punishment (42:23)
XVIII. Mitigation of Punishment; but not Release (31:38)
XIXa. His St. Martin's Summer: His Best Work - Part One (43:28)
XIXb. His St. Martin's Summer: His Best Work - Part Two (33:34)
XX. The Results of His Second Fall: His Genius (48:32)
XXI. His Sense of Rivalry; His Love of Life and Laziness (30:54)
XXII. "A Great Romantic Passion!" (33:43)
XXIII. His Judgments of Writers and of Women (34:50)
XXIV. We Argue About His "Pet Vice" and Punishment (37:10)
XXV. The Last Hope Lost (40:07)
XXVI. The End (17:43)
XXVII. A Last Word (13:19)