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Title: Oscar Wilde
An Idler's Impression

Author: Edgar Saltus

Release Date: June 17, 2010 [EBook #32849]

Language: English

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OSCAR WILDE

_An Idler's Impression_

BY

EDGAR SALTUS

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CHICAGO

BROTHERS OF THE BOOK

1917

COPYRIGHT 1917

BY

EDGAR SALTUS

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_Oscar Wilde: An Idler's Impression_

OSCAR WILDE

Years ago, in a Paris club, one man said to another: "Well, what's
up?" The other shook a paper: "There is only one genius in England and
they have put him in jail."

One may wonder though whether it were their doing, or even Wilde's,
that put him there. One may wonder whether it were not the high fates
who so gratified him in order that, from his purgatory,