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About Oscar Wilde
Irish author, poet and playwright
Oscar Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright of the late 19th century. He became one of London’s most popular and influential dramatists in the early 1890s, and is closely associated with the Aestheticism movement. He is best known for The Picture of Dorian Gray, his epigrams, plays and children’s stories. His writing often combines wit, style and pointed observation, and his reputation is also shaped by his 1895 criminal conviction for gross indecency and for practising homosexual acts.
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- “I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”Oscar Wilde
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Books by Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray
His only novel, full of quotable lines.