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OSCAR WILDE
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"The Picture of Dorian Gray, a novella (1890)
"The Importance of Being Honest, a Comedy (1895);
° The Canterville Ghost, short story (1887);
- The Happy Prince and other stories (among these is
The Selfish Giant), a collection of short stories (1888);
- The Ballad of Reading Gaol, poem (1898), written in Reading Jail (England);
- De Profundis, autobiographical letter (1897), written in prison.
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Year of death: Party where he was buried. His grave is in M, Farmise necerage with Constance Lloyd and two children, same cemetery as Charles Baudelaire,
Family: marriage with Constance Lloyd and two children,Cyril and Vyvyan Holland
Scandal and prison: Arrested in 1895 and imprisoned in Reading jail for two years for his homos erans celations ReadAred Douglas, an English writer and translator, the an with Warguess of Queensbury. Homosexuality was a crime in his time.
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The influence of Oxford: Reading The Renaissance by Walter Pater, father of the Aesthetic Movement, greatly influenced Wilde. His teacher at the university, the historian and
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Personality: brilliant talker, impressed dandy, aesthete, ambitious and extravagant spirit.
Arts: a writer, a poet, a playwright, an essayist, a spokesman for the school of " art for art's sake" Travels: Italy where among other cities he also visited Naples, the USA and France.
A popular quote
"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead."