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.
Exile and the Kingdom Exile and the Kingdom Exile and the Kingdom () is a 1957 collection of six short stories by French writer Albert Camus. The underlying theme of these stories is human loneliness and feeling foreign and isolated in one's own society.Camus writes about outsiders living in Algeria who straddle the divide between the Muslim world and France. These works of fiction cover the whole variety of existentialism, or absurdism, as Camus himself insisted his philosophical ideas be called. The clearest manifestation of the ideals of Camus can be found in the story ""La Pierre qui pousse"." This story features D'Arrast, who