CONTENTS

VOLUME I

Introduction
Chapter I--Oscar's Father and Mother on Trial
Chapter II--Oscar Wilde as a Schoolboy
Chapter III--Trinity, Dublin: Magdalen, Oxford
Chapter IV--Formative Influences: Oscar's Poems
Chapter V--Oscar's Quarrel with Whistler and Marriage
Chapter VI--Oscar Wilde's Faith and Practice
Chapter VII--Oscar's Reputation and Supporters
Chapter VIII--Oscar's Growth to Originality About 1890
Chapter IX--The Summer of Success: Oscar's First Play
Chapter X--The First Meeting with Lord Alfred Douglas
Chapter XI--The Threatening Cloud Draws Nearer
Chapter XII--Danger Signals: the Challenge
Chapter XIII--Oscar Attacks Queensberry and is Worsted
Chapter XIV--How Genius is Persecuted in England
Chapter XV--The Queen vs. Wilde: The First Trial
Chapter XVI--Escape Rejected: The Second Trial and Sentence