Oscar Wilde's "Criminal" Notes
"Nothing is easier than to accumulate facts, nothing is so hard as to use them."
It is a wonder we have any of Oscar Wilde’s (1854-1900) notes. They were all sold at auction when the brilliant author was jailed for being gay—the official charge was “gross indecency.”
Wilde enjoyed a meteoric rise to fame, culminating in February of 1895 with his smashing succ…
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