Famous Trials 7: Oscar Wilde
by H. Montgomery Hyde
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Four days after the opening of Oscar Wilde's most popular and witty play The Importance of Being Earnest, the Marquess of Queensberry threw down a gauntlet to the playwright in the form of a card - the catalyst for one of the most bizarre contests ever staged at the Old Bailey. Wilde's prosecution for libel and his own subsequent prosecution by the Crown for gross indecency showed a man completely at odds with a class-ridden society that was rife with snobbery and narrow-mindedness. This show more book describes the case. show lessTags
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- Famous Trials 7: Oscar Wilde
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- The Trials of Oscar Wilde
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- The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde
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- 1948
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- Oscar Wilde
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- Remember to what a point your Puritanism in England has bought you. In old days nobody pretended to be a bit better than his neighbours. Nowadays, with our modern mania for morality, every one has to pose as a paragon of puri... (show all)ty, incorruptibility, and all the other seven deadly virtues-and what is the result? You all go over like ninepins-one after the other. Not a year passes in England without somebody disappearing. Scandals used to lend charm, or at least interest, to man-now they crush him. And yours is a very nasty scandal. You couldn't survive it.
An Ideal Husband, Act I. - Dedication
- To the memory of Sir Edward Clark
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- 820 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English and Old English (Anglo-Saxon) literatures
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- KD372 .W54 .T47 — Law Law of the United Kingdom and Ireland Law of England and Wales Trials Criminal trials and judicial investigations
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