At May 25, 1895 Playwright, poet and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison..
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Title: This Side of Paradise
Original publication date: 1920-03-26
Characters: Amory Blaine,
Book awards: Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century (91),
First words: Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while.
Last words: "I know myself," he cried, "but that is all--"
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