Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions (Complete)

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, New Age, History, Fiction & Literature
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Author: Frank Harris ISBN: 9781465541338
Publisher: Library of Alexandria Publication: March 8, 2015
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Frank Harris
ISBN: 9781465541338
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Publication: March 8, 2015
Imprint:
Language: English
I was advised on all hands not to write this book, and some English friends who have read it urge me not to publish it. "You will be accused of selecting the subject," they say, "because sexual viciousness appeals to you, and your method of treatment lays you open to attack. "You criticise and condemn the English conception of justice, and English legal methods: you even question the impartiality of English judges, and throw an unpleasant light on English juries and the English public—all of which is not only unpopular but will convince the unthinking that you are a presumptuous, or at least an outlandish, person with too good a conceit of himself and altogether too free a tongue
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I was advised on all hands not to write this book, and some English friends who have read it urge me not to publish it. "You will be accused of selecting the subject," they say, "because sexual viciousness appeals to you, and your method of treatment lays you open to attack. "You criticise and condemn the English conception of justice, and English legal methods: you even question the impartiality of English judges, and throw an unpleasant light on English juries and the English public—all of which is not only unpopular but will convince the unthinking that you are a presumptuous, or at least an outlandish, person with too good a conceit of himself and altogether too free a tongue

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