id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt chapter-007 chapter-007 .txt text/plain 2117 95 68 The conditions of English society being what they are, it is all but impossible at first to account for the rapidity of Oscar Wilde's social success; yet if we tell over his advantages and bring one or two into the account which have not yet been reckoned, we shall find almost every element that conduces to popularity. These admirers and supporters praised and defended Oscar Wilde from the beginning with the persistence and courage of men who if they don't hang together are likely to hang separately. It was the passionate support of these men in the first place which made Oscar Wilde notorious and successful. But no one who knows the facts will deny that these men are prodigiously influential in London in all artistic and literary matters, and it was their constant passionate support which lifted Oscar Wilde so quickly to eminence. ./cache/chapter-007.txt ./txt/chapter-007.txt