Autobiography of Lord Alfred Douglas

Lord Alfred Douglas, the young aristocrat who became Oscar Wilde's lover, revisits his scandal-haunted life in this candid autobiography written decades after the trials that shamed British society. Bosie, as he was known, guides readers through his damaging romance with the celebrated playwright, the infamous court proceedings that destroyed Wilde, and the long decades of bitterness that followed. Yet this is no simple act of contrition. Douglas still seethes with old grievances, settling scores with everyone from Wilde's widow to the journalists who profited from the scandal. The result is a troubling, often self-justifying document that reads less like confession than as a final, furious insistence on his own version of history. For anyone fascinated by the Wilde circle, this autobiography offers an unapologetic view from inside the wreckage, one man's refusal to accept the role of villain in a story that ruined him long before he could tell his side of it.