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2. Oscar Wilde - Wikipedia

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   Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde[a] (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his ...

3. Oscar Wilde bibliography - Wikipedia

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   This is a bibliography of works by Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), a late-Victorian Irish writer. Chiefly remembered today as a playwright, especially for The Importance of Being Earnest, and as the author of The Picture of Dorian Gray; Wilde's oeuvre includes criticism, poetry, children's fiction, and a large selection of reviews, lectures and ...

4. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Wikipedia

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   The Picture of Dorian Gray is a philosophical fiction and gothic horror novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde. A shorter novella -length version was published in the July 1890 issue of the American periodical Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. [1][2] The novel-length version was published in April 1891. The story revolves around a portrait of Dorian ...

5. A House of Pomegranates - Wikipedia

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   January 1, 1891. Illustration of the witch from "The Fisherman and His Soul". A House of Pomegranates is a collection of fairy tales written by Oscar Wilde published in 1891 as a second collection for The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888). Wilde once said that this collection was "intended neither for the British child nor the British public".

6. A Woman of No Importance - Wikipedia

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   A Woman of No Importance. Act IV: Mrs Arbuthnot strikes Lord Illingworth. A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde is "a new and original play of modern life", in four acts, first given on 19 April 1893 at the Haymarket Theatre, London. [1] Like Wilde's other society plays, it satirises English upper-class society.

7. The Soul of Man Under Socialism - Wikipedia

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   First publication in Fortnightly Review February 1891, p. 292. " The Soul of Man Under Socialism " is an 1891 essay by Oscar Wilde in which he expounds a libertarian socialist worldview and a critique of charity. [1] The writing of "The Soul of Man" followed Wilde's conversion to anarchist philosophy, following his reading of the works of Peter ...

8. The Letters of Oscar Wilde - Wikipedia

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   The book contains a timeline of Oscar Wilde's life, includes some of his drawings and his famous letter to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, known as De Profundis. Expurgated editions of De Profundis had been published by Wilde's literary executor Robbie Ross from 1905, but the 1962 edition published by Rupert Hart-Davis was the first full and ...

9. The Importance of Being Earnest - Wikipedia

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   The Importance of Being Earnest, a Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde, the last of his four drawing-room plays, following Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893) and An Ideal Husband (1895). First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy depicting ...