Publisher's Synopsis
In his last years in London Wildes behavior can only be described as reckless. It was as if he were asking to be caught, and eventually he was caught. Yet he had begun his travels happily, visiting France for the first time as a student, then spending his honeymoon in Paris. In frequent trips to the French capital he met well-known writers, feeling at ease with them, preparing a theatrical career with Sarah Bernhardt - then at the height of her fame. Now the pace of Herbert Lottmans book slows, allowing the reader to follow Wildes disgrace his indifference to indictment, his careless attitude toward witnesses who turn against him,
