Wilde's Last Stand - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wilde's Last Stand write by Philip Hoare. This book was released on 1997. Wilde's Last Stand available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1918 the "Vigilante" newspaper claimed the German Secret Service held evidence naming 47, 000 members of the British establishment who were perverts. In the libel trial that followed, Maud Allan, Robbie Ross and Lord Alfred Douglas became embroiled in the battle over Wilde's reputation.
Wilde's Last Stand
Wilde's Last Stand - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wilde's Last Stand write by Philip Hoare. This book was released on 2011. Wilde's Last Stand available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1918 the Vigilante newspaper claimed that the German Secret Service held a book containing the names of 47,000 British establishment members who were sexual perverts. It was claimed Britain was losing the war because the Germans were blackmailing these figures and thereby sapping the country's strength. The Vigilante was exploiting popular belief that Britain had become a decadent state still in thrall to the immoral cult of Oscar Wilde. The extreme right wing politics of the newspaper's publisher were becoming dangerously popular and in the sensational libel trial that followed many high society members were drawn in. Wilde's devoted "friend" Robbie Ross and his one time lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, both became embroiled in the bitter battle over Wilde's reputation. The author uses original documents and archives to narrate the history of this bizarre scandal, made all the more unusual by having occurred during the final year of World War I. He produces a portrait of wartime society, telling of transvestites in the trenches, of drug clubs in London, and of the roots of British fascism, discerning the seeds of intolerance which would inform the troubled years to come. 'Hoare has identified one of the key moments in the formation of the modern world, and he has documented it with dazzling brilliance' Simon Callow, Sunday Times
Oscar Wilde's Last Stand
Oscar Wilde's Last Stand - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Oscar Wilde's Last Stand write by Philip Hoare. This book was released on 1998. Oscar Wilde's Last Stand available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. So outraged was Noel Pemberton Billing, a member of Parliament and self-appointed guardian of family values, that he denounced Allan in the right-wing newspaper Vigilante as a member of the "Cult of the Clitoris." Billing was convinced that the "Cult of Wilde" - a catchall for anyone guilty of degeneracy and perversion, in his eyes - had infected the land. Of that, Billing maintained, he had proof: a black book containing the names of 47,000 members of the British establishment who without doubt were members of the Cult of Wilde was in the hands of the Germans.
Oscar Wilde and the Murders at Reading Gaol
Oscar Wilde and the Murders at Reading Gaol - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Oscar Wilde and the Murders at Reading Gaol write by Gyles Brandreth. This book was released on 2013-05-14. Oscar Wilde and the Murders at Reading Gaol available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this new installment in the engaging mystery series Booklist called “pitch-perfect” and “enthralling”—currently in development as a BBC television series—the incomparable playwright, novelist, raconteur, and now ex-convict Oscar Wilde faces his most fiendishly puzzling case yet. Oscar Wilde has fled to France after his release from Reading Gaol. Tonight he is sharing a drink and the story of his cruel imprisonment with a mysterious stranger. Oscar has endured the treadmill, solitary confinement, censored letters, no writing materials. Yet even in the midst of such deprivation, his astonishing detective powers remain undiminished—and when first a brutal warder and then the prison chaplain are found murdered, who else should the governor turn to for help other than Reading Gaol’s most celebrated inmate?
The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde
The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde write by Peter Ackroyd. This book was released on 1993. The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Oscar Wilde never wrote a last testament during his isolation in Paris. This book takes the known facts about Oscar Wilde and converts them into a fictional portrait of the artist and memoir of a life of great contrast - a career which ended with a catastrophic fall from public favour.
