Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde was born in 1854 in Dublin, the son of a surgeon and a nationalist poet, and had a brilliant academic career at Trinity College and then at Oxford. He made his name through lecture tours and through his conversation as much as through his books. Four comedies brought him his greatest successes in the theatre. His trial against the Marquess of Queensberry collapsed and led to his sentence of two years' hard labour. He died in Paris in 1900, aged forty-six, in the hotel where he was living under an assumed name.

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• NovelThe Picture of Dorian GrayOscar Wilde · 1890LiteraturePublic domain