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Unmasking of Oscar Wilde »
Authors: Joseph Pearce
ISBN-13: 9781586170264, ISBN-10: 1586170260
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Date Published: April 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Joseph Pearce
Book Synopsis
A thought-provoking re-examination of Wilde's brilliant, tragic life and his lifelong spiritual yearnings.
Table of Contents
| Preface to the Second Edition | 11 | |
| Preface | 13 | |
| Acknowledgements | 19 | |
| 1 | Mother of Masks | 21 |
| 2 | Star in the Ascendancy | 39 |
| 3 | Oxford Donned | 51 |
| 4 | Courting Conversion | 70 |
| 5 | Roman Fever | 91 |
| 6 | Love's Web | 110 |
| 7 | Courting Controversy | 124 |
| 8 | Poetry and Pose | 134 |
| 9 | Courting Constance | 155 |
| 10 | The French Connection | 175 |
| 11 | Truth and Masks | 185 |
| 12 | Purity and Passion | 197 |
| 13 | Poison and Passion | 207 |
| 14 | Unhappy Hypocrite | 217 |
| 15 | Malice Through the Looking Glass | 228 |
| 16 | Critic or Artist | 243 |
| 17 | Friends and Relations | 254 |
| 18 | Saints and Sinners | 268 |
| 19 | Fatal Attraction | 276 |
| 20 | Courting Conviction | 290 |
| 21 | Descent | 306 |
| 22 | Abyss | 320 |
| 23 | Purgatory | 332 |
| 24 | Out of the Depths | 348 |
| 25 | Wilderness | 361 |
| 26 | Hounded by Heaven | 376 |
| 27 | Revelations | 387 |
| Index | 399 |
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