Oscar Wilde

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Inconsistencies in the author's use of hyphens and accent marks have been left unchanged, as in the original text. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected without comment. One example of a typographical error is on page 144 where the word miuutes was corrected to minutes . In cases other than obvious typographical errors, the author's spelling has been left unchanged from the original text with the following three exceptions:
1. Page 126 the word worldings was changed to worldlings in the phrase: ... guests are all mere worldlings.... 2. Page 262 the quoted phrase: Fait vour quelle sera votre votre maturité was changed to: Fait voir quelle sera votre maturité which is the correct wording from the poem À Théodore de Banville by Charles Baudelaire. 3. Page 317 the name Bazil was changed to Basil in the phrase: Basil Hallward's studio to correspond with the author's other spellings of the name Basil Hallward.
Two items in the index, which were out of alphabetical order ( De Profundis—Biblical influence and Shaw, G. B. ) were placed in correct alphabetical order in this version.
THIRD EDITION
THE LIFE OF
OSCAR WILDE
WITH A CHAPTER CONTRIBUTED BY
THE PRISON WARDER WHO HELD
THIS UNHAPPY MAN IN GAOL