Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde 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 the circumstances of his criminal conviction for gross indecency for consensual homosexual acts in "one of the first celebrity trials", imprisonment, and early death from meningitis at the age of 46.

Works

A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies

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A Florentine Tragedy; La Sainte Courtisane

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A House of Pomegranates

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A Woman of No Importance

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A Woman of No Importance / Audio performance

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An Ideal Husband

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AVE IMPERATRIX

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AVE MARIA GRATIA PLENA

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Charmides, and Other Poems

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Children in Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life

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De Profundis

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Essays and Lectures

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Fabien Dei Franchi (to Henry Irving)

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FLOWER OF LOVE

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For Love of the King: A Burmese Masque

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FROM ‘THE BURDEN OF ITYS’

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FROM ‘THE GARDEN OF EROS’

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GREECE

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Impressions of America

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Intentions

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Lady Windermere's Fan

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LIBERTATIS SACRA FAMES

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Lord Arthur Savile's Crime; The Portrait of Mr. W.H., and Other Stories

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MAGDALEN WALKS

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Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man

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Miscellanies

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ON HEARING THE DIES IRÆ SUNG IN THE SISTINE CHAPEL

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Phèdre (to Sarah Bernhardt)

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Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol

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Portia (to Ellen Terry)

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Reviews

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ROSES AND RUE

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Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act

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Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde

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Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde

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Shorter Prose Pieces

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The Ballad of Reading Gaol

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The Ballad of Reading Gaol (Complete Version)

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The Ballad of Reading Gaol (Shorter Version)

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The Canterville Ghost

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The Duchess of Padua

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The Happy Prince

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The Happy Prince, and Other Tales

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THE HARLOT’S HOUSE

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The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People

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The Nightingale and the Rose

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

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The Soul of Man under Socialism

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THEOCRITUS — A VILLANELLE

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To My Wife (with a copy of my poems)

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Vera; Or, The Nihilists

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About the author

Oscar Wilde

Language of works

english

Born/died

1854 — 1900

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