Oscar Wilde renewal. He immediately wrote to the Society of Jesus requesting a six-month Catholic retreat; when the request was denied, Wilde wept. "I intend to be received into the Catholic Church before long", Wilde told a journalist who asked about his religious intentions. He spent his last three years impoverished and in exile. He took the name "Sebastian Melmoth", after Saint Sebastian and the titular character of "Melmoth the Wanderer" (a Gothic novel by Charles Maturin, Wilde's great-uncle). Wilde wrote two long letters to the editor of the "Daily Chronicle", describing the brutal conditions of English prisons and advocating penal reform.
Sebastian Sim Sebastian Sim Sebastian Sim (simplified Chinese: 沈岳川; pinyin: ‘‘Shěn Yuè Chuān’’) is a Singaporean author, including of wuxia novels. Sebastian grew up with parents who were part of the pioneer generation of independent Singapore. Prior to being a writer, he took up a variety of occupations, including being a bartender, a prison officer in a maximum security prison, and a croupier in a casino. Sebastian first wrote wuxia (martial arts) novels in Chinese: his first series was "The Heavenly Chef", written in 2004, and his second series, Tears of the Bat, was written in 2006. The novels were written under