A review by harvio
The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde: The First Uncensored Transcript of The Trial of Oscar Wilde vs. John Douglas (Marquess of Queensberry), 1895 by Merlin Holland, John Mortimer

4.0

- from the jacket: "Merlin Holland has produced a gripping and fascinating volume that entirely supercedes previous accounts of that Queensberry Trial...it gives us, for the first time, a real sense of how Wilde spoke in conversation...Behind the arrogance there no doubt lay nerves, and a tangle of other feelings - the same feelings that had led him {Wilde} to embark on the libel action in the first place. And at some level he seems to have been seeking out his own doom: it is what raises his fate above cause celebre and endows it with the quality of tragedy."
- "...as good as being in the gallery." an observation with which I entirely agree