This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVIII Oscar Wilde released--Sebastian Melmoth--Berneval--How he appeared to his Friends--The Prison Taint--Degradation which had not degraded--Why he could not work-- "The Case of Warder Martin "--" Don't read this "-- "The Ballad of Reading Gaol "--He proceeds to Naples --His Condition there- ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVIII Oscar Wilde released--Sebastian Melmoth--Berneval--How he appeared to his Friends--The Prison Taint--Degradation which had not degraded--Why he could not work-- "The Case of Warder Martin "--" Don't read this "-- "The Ballad of Reading Gaol "--He proceeds to Naples --His Condition there--As to one of his Friends--He returns to Paris--The Testimony of the Police--Monsieur Dupoirier--His last Moments--Oscar Wilde is released-- His Burial and Grave--Post Funera--His Continental Reputation--The Significance of this Spendthrift Loss. After his release from Reading Gaol--having refused the offer of certain American journalists to pay him a large sum for an account of his life in prison, with the remark he could not understand that such offers should be made to a gentleman--he immediately crossed over to France. His deference to English society was such that he felt that, having offended his country, he must consign himself to a perpetual exile from England. For the rest, he had reason to expect sympathy and welcome in France, where his case at the time of his downfall had been widely discussed, with general commiseration. It was held that the man had been very harshly dealt with. Several prominent men had written about him. Henri de Regnier and Paul Adam, who already at that time held high positions in French literature, in which to-day they rank as masters, had published articles describing his great good qualities, and paying respectful homage to the convict in Wandsworth Gaol. Henri Bauer, an influential critic, had published an account of Wilde's condemnation and the treatment that was being dealt out to him, which thrilled civilised France with horror. A house had been taken for him at a village called Berneval, on the...
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