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, …

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 …

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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 …

Nov 26, 2025 · Wilde wrote two collections of fairy tales for adults, which included stories such as The Happy Prince. Oscar Wilde was an Irish wit, poet, and dramatist who was a spokesman …

The Picture of Dorian Gray, moral fantasy novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde, published in an early form in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine in 1890. The novel, the only one written by Wilde, had …

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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).