Oscar Wilde - His Life and Confessions - Volume I

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First published in 1916, this volume contains the first volume of Frank Harris’s biography Oscar Wilde - His Life and Confessions . An acquaintance of Wilde’s, Harris attempts in this biography to do justice to his old friend whom he had helped throughout the controversy and his trial, twenty years previous. Contents include: Oscar’s Father And Mother On Trial , Oscar Wilde As A Schoolboy , Trinity, Dublin: Magdalen, Oxford , Formative Influences: Oscar’s Poems , Oscar’s Quarrel With Whistler , And Marriage , Oscar Wilde’s Faith And Practice , Oscar’s Reputation And Supporters , Oscar’s Growth To Originality About 1890 , etc. Frank Harris (1855-1931) was an Irish-American novelist, editor, journalist, publisher, and short story writer who had acquaintances with many famous people of his day. Other notable works by this author include: The Man Shakespeare and his Tragic Life Story (1909), The Yellow Ticket And Other Stories (1914), and Contemporary Portraits (1915-1923).