Volume III of the series, published in 1927, offers Harris and his account of time with the rich and powerful. Some of this story might even be true. There are still numerous women, and one or two bad marriages.

My Life and Loves, v3

Culled from an unfinished Frank Harris manuscript by Maurice Girodias (with help from Alexander Trocchi), this latest title in the series offers more of Harris' epic life and erotic adventures, with a measure of sexing up that Girodias himself attempts to justify in the preface. The work is subtitled: "An Irreverent Treatment, " while in later editions, Girodias renamed the work "What Frank Harris Did Not Say." There are some who feel Trocchi wrote a better Autobiography than Harris himself did.

My Life and Loves, v5 - An Irreverent Treatment

Prison of Pain!

The innocent are imprisoned on Welfare Island, and are forced to kiss the whip and genitals of their male and female captors. The perverse sexual violation of the innocent, the extremely cruel torture administered by insanely sadistic captors, the amusement of those who find spanking, whipping, humiliation, sex-torture and forced sex acts amusing. This is a portrayal of prison life at its very worst--a system kept alive by the perverted gentry and public indifference.

This, the first of two volumes, is as frank and damning an indictment of law enforcement and punishment as the law itself will allow.

Illustrated.

Slaves of Welfare Island, VI

The Bomb focuses on the infamous Haymarket affair, in which a bomb kills police gathered to club and maul labor protestors, and an incredibly unjust trial that later murders five anarchist leaders who had nothing to do with the bomb. The Bomb comes from the point of view of the uncaught bomb-thrower, and proves that the kind of terrorism inflicted by the Unabomber and in Oklahoma City emerged as part of political disobedience more than one hundred years ago. Feral House releases The Bomb with an afterword by contemporary anarchist thinker John Zerzan. This edition also includes line portraits of novel participants drawn at the turn of the century.

La bombe

Volume IV, and last of the versions that Harris had final say on. Begins with a piece on how Harris first came to write, goes at length into discussions with lesbians, and some orgies Frank had in San Remo. Stunning conclusion, as it were, to Harris' work.

My Life and Loves, v4

Volume I of the betimes infamous series. First published in 1922 (and registered, oddly, three years later), Harris' four volumes were later repackaged by the Obelisk Press in Paris. Second-longest, this tale stars young Frank, from his Irish boyhood to his stay in the wilds of America, with a back-handed nod at so many of the improving tomes for boys, popular in Harris' youth. This title was a huge success, becoming synonymous with decadence in fiction and banned everywhere. Also notable for the way Mr. Harris really, really ticked off the estate of Thomas Carlyle, and for Harris' odd stance on masturbation.

My Life and Loves, v1

Qui était Oscar Wilde ? "Je l'ai connu pendant près de vingt ans, intimement, depuis l'université jusqu'à sa mort. Je l'ai vu au temps des luttes de ses débuts, puis soulevé par la vague culminante du succès pour s'effondrer l'instant d'après dans l'abîme de la haine et du mépris populaires. Je l'ai visité dans sa prison, j'ai partagé ses joies quand il fut libre. Je l'aimais du commencement à la fin, comme nous autres, mortels, pouvons aimer, avec des interludes de vaines colères et de désaccords passagers, mais somme toute, avec une admiration enthousiaste et une affection constante." Frank Harris fait ici le portrait d'un artiste d'exception, causeur érudit à l'humour décapant et à la voix ensorcelante, dandy extravagant dont la flamboyance fascine et agace, auteur brillant de textes drôles et satiriques tout comme d'oeuvres à la beauté profonde et douloureuse. Mais sous le regard à la fois critique et admiratif de Harris, Oscar Wilde apparaît aussi dans toute sa complexité, ses ambiguïtés, ses faiblesses : un homme victime de ses passions et d'une société dont Harris fustige le puritanisme, l'étroitesse d'esprit et l'injustice.

La vie et les confessions d'Oscar Wilde

Chicago, Haymarket Square, 4 mai 1886 : alors que s'achève un meeting politique réunissant des centaines d'ouvriers, la police lance un assaut brutal pour disperser la foule. Soudain, une bombe explose, tuant huit policiers et en blessant plusieurs dizaines d'autres. Cet événement à l'immense retentissement, Rudolph Schnaubelt en est le témoin privilégié. Fraîchement débarqué d'Allemagne, ce jeune homme cultivé, sans le sou mais décidé à conquérir l'Amérique, fait rapidement l'apprentissage d'une réalité qui lui glace le sang : de New York à Chicago, il découvre la tragique condition des ouvriers, surtout quand ils sont, comme lui, étrangers. Mais comment se dresser face aux injustices dans cette société conservatrice avide de profits où la presse est aux ordres et la répression policière, sanglante ? Tiraillé entre son engagement pour la cause ouvrière aux côtés de Louis Lingg, un militant anarchiste charismatique, et sa passion pour la belle Elsie, Rudolph va faire un choix qui changera à jamais le cours de sa vie et celui de l'Histoire.

My Life and Loves, v3

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