num_pages: 256
description: Describes how a performance of Wilde's Salome+a7 led to a denunciation by Noel Pemberton Billing, MP and self-styled guardian of public morality, of the play and its star, Maud Allan, his claims of sexual perversion and conspiracy, and the libel trial that followed. 12,500 first printing. Tour.
language: English
title: Oscar Wilde's Last Stand: Decadence, Conspiracy, and the Most Outrageous Trial of the Century
titlecomplete: Oscar Wilde's Last Stand: Decadence, Conspiracy, and the Most Outrageous Trial of the Century
genres: Historical, Biography, Queer, LGBT, Drama, Nonfiction, Gay, Literature, Biography Memoir, History
ratings_count: 133
publisher: Arcade