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.
Ender in Exile Ender in Exile Ender in Exile is a science fiction novel by American writer Orson Scott Card, part of the "Ender's Game" series, published on November 11, 2008. It takes place between the two award-winning novels: "Ender's Game" and "Speaker for the Dead". It could also be considered a parallel novel to the first three sequels in the Shadow Saga, since the entirety of this "trilogy" takes place in the span of "Ender in Exile". The novel concludes a dangling story line of the Shadow Saga, while it makes several references to events that take place during the Shadow Saga.