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1 of 13. Summary of Oscar Wilde. Oscar Wilde emerged in late nineteenth century London as the living embodiment of the Aesthetic movement. He won fame as a dramatist, poet and novelist whose ideas on art, beauty and personal freedom formed a formidable challenge to Victorian puritanicalism.
Biography. Study Guide. Quotes. Plays. Novels. Poetry. Short Stories. Oscar Wilde Biography. Oscar Wilde was born on October 16, 1854, in Dublin, Ireland. He was educated at Trinity College in Dublin and at Magdalen College, Oxford, and settled in London, where he married Constance Lloyd in 1884.
His lasting literary fame resides primarily in four or five plays, one of which—The Importance of Being Earnest, first produced in 1895—is a classic of comic theater. His only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), is flawed as a work of art, but gained him much of his notoriety.
In 1874, Oscar crowned his successes at Trinity with two final achievements. He won the college’s Berkeley Gold Medal for Greek and was awarded a Demyship scholarship to Magdalen College in Oxford. Welcome to the Biography page of the official Oscar Wilde website.
May 18, 2018 · Wilde, Oscar (1854–1900) (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Irish dramatist, poet, prose writer, and wit. He wrote one novel, The Picture of Dorian Grey (1891), but most characteristic of his gift for dramatizing serious issues with epigrammatic wit are his plays, which include Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893), An ...
Apr 9, 2024 · An Annotated Selection. Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel. An innovative new edition of nine classic short stories from one of the greatest writers of the Victorian era. “I cannot think other than in stories,” Oscar Wilde once confessed to his friend André Gide.
Nov 29, 2018 · Introduction. Oscar Wilde spoke with a unique voice throughout his short professional life, during which he became the foremost wit of the era and speaker for Aestheticism, Decadence, and the avant-garde of the 1890s.
