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Non-Fiction of Gay Interest
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"The defendant awaiting sentence in the dock of the Central Criminal Court at the Old Bailey in London was a forty-year-old Irishman. Four years previously a friend described him as rich, tall and handsome. Only four months previously the description remained substantially true. If anything, he was 'bolder, stronger, bigger'. He was at the very pinnacle of his profession and, ostensibly at least, a pillar of late Victorian society. He was a married man living in considerable style with his wife and two young sons in an expensive four-storey house in Tite Street, Chelsea. He seemed to define and personify the spirit of fin de siècle London. He was invited to dine at high tables; and dined, indeed, at the very highest. He was lionized (sic) in the press and mobbed in the streets. Now, though, on the morning of Saturday 25 May 1895, all that had gone. Although he towered above the barriseters and clerks who filled the well of the court - he stood a full six feet three inches in height and was, according to George Bernard Shaw, ' a giant in the pathological sense' - Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde cut a sad and rather pathetic figure. A certain puffiness masked the good looks; his once-immaculate hair was dishevelled. The dinner invitations no longer arrived; the mob had turned nasty and even started to spit; bankruptcy proceedings were about to begin. With bewildering stupidity, over the course of just six weeks he had been stripped of everything. " opening paragraph, reference omitted Secondhand booksellers |
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