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The annotated prison writings of Oscar Wilde /

"'And I? May I say nothing, my lord?' With these words, Oscar Wilde's courtroom trials came to a close. The lord in question, High Court justice Sir Alfred Wills, sent Wilde to the cells, sentenced to two years in prison with hard labor for the crime of 'gross indecency'...

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Main Authors: Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
Group Author: Frankel, Nicholas, 1962
Published: Harvard University Press,
Publisher Address: Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Publication Dates: 2018.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Wilde, Oscar, > 1854-1900 > Imprisonment
Wilde, Oscar, > 1854-1900 > Pardon
Wilde, Oscar, > 1854-1900 > Correspondence
Prisoners' writings, English
Summary: "'And I? May I say nothing, my lord?' With these words, Oscar Wilde's courtroom trials came to a close. The lord in question, High Court justice Sir Alfred Wills, sent Wilde to the cells, sentenced to two years in prison with hard labor for the crime of 'gross indecency' with other men. As cries of 'shame' emanated from the gallery, the convicted aesthete was roundly silenced. But he did not remain so. Behind bars and in the period immediately after his release, Wilde wrote two of his most powerful works--the long autobiographical letter De Profundis and an expansive best-selling poem, The B
Carrier Form: 394 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 9780674984387 (paperback) :
0674984382 (paperback)
Index Number: PR5812
CLC: I562.64
Call Number: I562.64/W672-1
Contents: Clemency petition, to the Home Secretary, 2 July 1896 -- De profundis -- Letter to the Daily chronicle, 27 May 1897 -- "The ballad of Reading Gaol" -- Letter to the Daily chronicle, 23 March 1898.

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