“Well, to be honest, everything you’re saying is pretty pretentious. It sounds like you took that right from Sparknotes.” Nobody spoke. I looked to him for some sort of retort, an argument, anything at all, but he gave nothing. A vein swelled in his forehead and his cheeks ...
In 1895, at the height of his success, Wilde became embroiled in a public scandal when his relationship with a man, Lord Alfred Douglas, was exposed. At the time, homosexuality was illegal in Britain; in 1897 Wilde was convicted of “gross indecency” with men and sentenced to two years’...
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