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Chapter 13
Draft in three versions. Version 1 titled, "Countering the Renaissance", which begins: "On his return to London Wilde was in excellent spirits...." Version 2 titled, "The Age of Dorian: 1889-1991", which begins: "The 'nineties began in 1889 and came to an end in 1895...." Version 3 titled, "Hellenizing Paris: 1891: Mallarme", which begins: "London at his feet, though unwillingly so, Wilde turned his attention to France...."
Chapter 14
Draft in two versions, with variations. Version 1 titled, "Hellenizing Paris", which begins: "London at his fee, though unwillingly so, Wilde turned his attention to France." Version 2 titled, "A Good Woman, and a Not So Good Young Man: 1892", which begins: "Wilde was back in London about 22 December 1891 in time to spend Christmas with his wife and sons...."
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Draft in two versions, each with variations. Version 1 titled, "Love and Debt", which begins: "From November 1892 to the beginning of December 1893, when a three-month repite began, Wilde's life was inseparable from that of Alfred Douglas...." Version 2 titled, "Sailing Into the Wind: 1894-1895: Falling Towers", which begins: "A letter of Wilde to Douglas, written in the summer of 1894, testifies to his love for the young man.... "
Chapter 17
Draft in two versions, each with variations. Version 1 titled, "Sailing into the Wind: 1894-1895", which begins: "A letter of Wilde to Douglas, written in the summer of 1894 (HD 358) testifies to his love for the young man...." Version 2 titled "Disgrace: "I am the prosecutor in this case", which begins: "All trials are trials for one's life, Wilde would declare after his trials were over...."
Chapter 18
Two draft with variations, titled "I am the prosecutor in this case", which begins: "All trials are trials for one's life Wilde would declare after is trials were over...."
Chapter 19
Drafts in two versions, with variations. Version 1 titled "Doom Deferred", which begins: "Humpty Dumpty was about to fall...." Version 2 titled, "Doom Deferred", which begins: "If Queensberry had not brought Wilde down, someone else might well have done so...."
Chapter 20
Three drafts, with variations, titled "A New Thermopylae", which begins: "Bereft of the company of his lover Douglas, and of his friends Ross and Turner--all three fugitive in France, and unsought by most of his other friends...."
Chapter 21
Draft and partial draft in two versions. Version 1 titled "Prison", pages 6-29. Version 2 titled "Pentonville, Wandsworth, and Reading", which begins: "Wilde's heroes generally managed to break the law without having serious brushes with the police...."
Chapter 22
Three drafts, with variations, titled "Escape from Reading", which begins: "That love has a murderous element was a home truth without comfort for the victim of society's loveless murder in Reading Gaol...."