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Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions by Frank Harris
Consumers of biography are familiar with the division between memoirs of the living or recently dead written by those who “knew” the subject more or less intimately, and the more objective or scholarly accounts produced by later generations. In the case of Wilde, as presented to us by Frank Harris, we are in a way doubly estranged from the subject. We meet with Oscar the charismatic talker, whose tone of voice can never be reproduced – even if a more scrupulous biographer had set down his words accurately – and we are perhaps already aware of him as Wilde the self-destructive celebrity who une...
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Episodes
00 – Author’s Introduction 02.01.2026 9:26
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01 – I. Oscar’s Father and Mother on Trial 01.01.2026 36:50
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02 – II. Oscar Wilde as a Schoolboy 31.12.2025 22:57
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03 – III. Trinity, Dublin: Magdalen, Oxford 30.12.2025 23:29
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04 – IV. Formative Influences: Oscar’s Poems 29.12.2025 41:04
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05 – V. Oscar’s Quarrel with Whistler and Marriage 28.12.2025 30:37
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06 – VI. Oscar Wilde’s Faith and Practice 27.12.2025 19:20
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07 – VII. Oscar’s Reputation and Supporters 26.12.2025 17:27
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08 – VIII. Oscar’s Growth to Originality About 1890 25.12.2025 36:44
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09 – IX. The Summer of Success: Oscar’s First Play 24.12.2025 19:28
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10 – X. The First Meeting with Lord Alfred Douglas 23.12.2025 21:50
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11 – XI. The Threatening Cloud Draws Nearer 22.12.2025 33:33
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12 – XII. Danger Signals: the Challenge 21.12.2025 47:05
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13 – XIII. Oscar Attacks Queensberry and is Worsted 20.12.2025 42:55
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14 – XIV. How Genius is Persecuted in England 19.12.2025 57:26
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15 – XV. The Queen vs. Wilde: The First Trial 18.12.2025 51:53
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16 – XVI. Escape Rejected: The Second Trial and Sentence 17.12.2025 52:18
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17 – XVII. Prison and the Effects of Punishment 16.12.2025 42:23
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18 – XVIII. Mitigation of Punishment; but not Release 15.12.2025 31:38
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19 – XIXa. His St. Martin’s Summer: His Best Work – Part One 14.12.2025 43:28
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20 – XIXb. His St. Martin’s Summer: His Best Work – Part Two 13.12.2025 33:34
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21 – XX. The Results of His Second Fall: His Genius 12.12.2025 48:32
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22 – XXI. His Sense of Rivalry; His Love of Life and Laziness 11.12.2025 30:54
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23 – XXII. ‘A Great Romantic Passion!’ 10.12.2025 33:43
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24 – XXIII. His Judgments of Writers and of Women 09.12.2025 34:50
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