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Prison for Oscar Wilde, an English prison with its insufficient bad food[1] and soul-degrading routine for that amiable, joyous, eloquent, pampered Sybarite. Here was a test indeed; an ordeal as by fire. What would he make of two years' hard labour in a lonely cell? There are two ways of taking prison, as of taking most things, and all the myriad ways between these two extremes; would Oscar be conquered by it and allow remorse and hatred to corrupt his very heart, or would he conquer the prison and possess and use it? Hammer or anvil-which? Victory has its virtue and is justified of itself like sunshine; defeat carries its own condemnation. Yet we have all tasted its bitter waters: only "infinite virtue" can pass through life victorious, Shakespeare tells us, and we mortals are not of infinite virtue. The myriad vicissitudes of the struggle search out all our weaknesses; test all our powers. Every victory shows a more difficult height to scale, a steeper pinnacle of god-like hardship-that's the reward of victory: it provides the hero with ever-new battle-fields: no rest for him this side the grave.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Anthologies (non-poetry)

• Full title: Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions, Volume 2
• Author: Frank Harris
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 284
• EAN: 9781421896410
• ISBN: 9781421896410
• ID: 08414415
• Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
• Weight: 382 g
• Dimensions: 139 × 216 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. December 2007

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