Wilde is best known for his Gothic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), his epigrams, plays and bedtime stories for children, as well as his criminal conviction in 1895 for gross indecency …

Nov 26, 2025 · While studying at Oxford in the 1870s, Oscar Wilde gained notice as a scholar, poseur, wit, and poet and for his devotion to the Aesthetic movement, which held that art …

May 23, 2025 · Oscar Wilde was an author, playwright, and poet in late Victorian England known for The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest. Originally from Ireland, …

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At a time when all citizens of Britain were finally able to embrace literature the wealthy and educated could only once afford, Wilde wrote many short stories, plays and poems that …

Oscar Wilde was a nineteenth-century Irish poet and playwright, one of the most influential and celebrated. Associated with the Aesthetic Movement, he connected to the visual arts of his …

Wilde published a volume of poems early in his career as a writer. Some of these poems were successful, but his only enduring work in this genre is The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1896).

Oscar Wilde remains a captivating figure, not just for the brilliance of his prose and plays, but for the fascinating life he led. He was a master of wit, a flamboyant personality, and a writer …

Apr 9, 2024 · These definitive editions of Oscar Wilde’s writings have something for everyone, whether you’re looking for an introduction to his work, revisiting some well-loved classics, or …

Wilde struggled with the state of his soul, and desperately wanted to believe, but continually found that he could not. His own beliefs and particularly his faith in the material world, simply could …