Oscar Wilde and Myself
Gelesen von Rob Marland
Lord Alfred Douglas
(4,688 Sterne; 8 Bewertungen)
The first memoir by the poet Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas was written 14 years after the death of Oscar Wilde and in the aftermath of Douglas's failed prosecution of Arthur Ransome for libel. Ransome, in his "Oscar Wilde, a Critical Study," had quoted from the expurgated portions of Wilde's prison letter to Douglas, "De Profundis", which was highly critical of his former friend and lover. Having failed to convince a jury that he had been libelled, Douglas appealed instead to posterity by writing his memoir. In "Oscar Wilde and Myself" Douglas refutes Wilde's version of the events that led to his (Wilde's) imprisonment and takes swipes at Ransome, Wilde's friend Robert Ross, other biographers of Wilde, and Wilde's overzealous imitators. He also critiques Wilde's writing and character and concludes that the Irish playwright will soon be forgotten. (Rob Marland) (7 hr 18 min)
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Author appears as a very pretentious fellow
Amphelios
(5 Sterne)
(excellent reader)
Problematic
Dr. Ray Cyst
(5 Sterne)
Why is he criticizing the Rob fellow when, he should be instead laying vitriol at evil while male WASPS who R keeping LatinX people in cages. Just because he was gay, does not give him a pass for being old and white. Tolerant liberals, such as I, always need enemies to demonstrate our tolerance upon. This author is cleary just not as tolerant as I. Therefore he is a raycyst homophobic Euocentric imbecile.