Cover of The trials of Oscar Wilde

The trials of Oscar Wilde

by Michael S. Foldy · 1997

+ Want to read

Following Oscar Wilde's trials for committing acts of gross indecency with men, he lost his family, his freedom and his will to live. This book sets out to examine how Victorian society could allow, or indeed, need this to happen.

Genre
gaygayMore like thisLess of this
Setting
19th century19th centuryMore like thisLess of thisIrelandIrelandMore like thisLess of thisBritishBritishMore like thisLess of thisEnglandEnglandMore like thisLess of thisLondonLondonMore like thisLess of this
Subject
biographybiographyMore like thisLess of thishistoryhistoryMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 206 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

BuyAmazonGoogle Books

BorrowOpen LibraryA library near you

MoreCompare prices

Liked The trials of Oscar Wilde? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked The trials of Oscar Wilde. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. John Peter Zenger: Free Press Advocate Karen Westermann, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. · 2000 Shares trials, litigation, biography
  2. The trial of Joan of Arc Don Nardo · 1998 Shares litigation, trials, biography
  3. A Question of Loyalty Douglas C. Waller · 2004 Shares litigation, trials, history
  4. The Trial of Bhagat Singh: Politics of Justice Abdul Gafoor Abdul Majeed Noorani · 2001 Shares trials, litigation, biography
See more recommendations →

“If you want more of the same (gay), start with these.”

  1. A Perfect Heart: My Story John Healy · 2012
  2. Oscar Wilde, the importance of being Irish Davis Coakley · 1994
  3. Thomas Clarke Helen Litton · 2014
  4. Great O'Neill Sean O Faolain · 1970

“If it was the trials that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. Just words Alan L. Ackerman · 2011
  2. An act of love Fleming, Marie (MS patient) · 2014
  3. Miranda v. Arizona John G Hogrogian · 1999
  4. Last Witches of England John Callow · 2021

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde Moises Kaufman · 1997
  2. Oscar Wilde Nicholas Frankel · 2017
  3. The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde Merlin Holland · 2003
  4. Helpless M.J. Pearson · 2010

Report a problem