The Green Carnation by Robert Hichens

This Halcyon Classics ebook is Robert Hichens' succès de scandale THE GREEN CARNATION. Based on the lives of Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas, the novel features the characters of 'Esmé Amarinth' (Wilde), and 'Lord Reginald (Reggie) Hastings' (Douglas) in a series of episodes which shocked London society. Wilde soon stood three consecutive trials for gross indecency and was sentenced to two years at hard labor partly as a result of the various episodes in THE GREEN CARNATION.