The Harlot's House (Illustrated)

Proofed and corrected from the original edition for enjoyable reading. (Worth every penny spent!)

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"The Harlot's House" is lyrical poem.

The poet is standing in the street outside the house of the Scarlet Woman and looks up at the windows of which the blinds are drawn down. It is night, and on the blinds appear the "silhouettes" of the dancing figures, the "marionettes" within.

In this poem Oscar Wilde overcame his objection to the use of words ending in "ette" for which he professed a real...