Oscar Wilde

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Aliases:
.. Wilde, Oscar O. Wills Wilde, Оскар Уайлд, and 71 others Osḳar Ṿild, Osḳar Vayld, Oskar Uajld, Оскар Фингал О'Флаэрти Уиллс Уайлд, Osḳar Ṿaild, Oskar Waild, Wairudo, Oskar Uafil’d, Oskaras Vaildas, Oscar Wilde, אסקאר ווילד, C. Three Three, Osḳar Ṿayld, Oscar O. Wilde, Oskars Vailds, Oskar F. Wilde, Oskar Uaǐl'd, Ōskʻar Uaylt, Oscar Fingal O'Flaherty Wills Wilde, Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, وايلد، اسكار،, Oskar Ouailnt, Oxoniensis, Oskar Gualant, אוסקר ויילד, Oskar Vajld, Oskar Uailld, Oscar F. Wilde, Oscar Finegal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde Wilde, Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, Wilde, أوسكار وايلد،, Author of Lady Windermere's fan, Oscar O' Flahertie Wills Wilde, ويلد، اوسكار, Oskar Uajl'd, אוסקר וילד, אסקאר וויילד, Oskar Uaĭlʹd, C. 3. 3, Osсar Wilde, Āskara Vāilḍa, Oskar Vild, Оскар Уайльд, Wang'erde, Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde Wilde, Oscar F. O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, Оскар Уальд, Erde Wang, Oskar Uajlld, Ôsqar Wayld, Oskar Vayld, Oskar Wilde, Oskar Uailnt, Oskar Wayld, Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Willis Wilde, オスカー・ワイルド, O. Wilde, אסקר וילד, Oskar Vaild, Sebastian Melmoth, Ōskar Vaild, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, وايلد، أوسكار،, אוסקר ווילד, Óscar Wilde, אוסקר וויילד, C. Drei Drei, Oskar Guailant, Oskar Uail'd, אסקאר װײלד
Born:
Oct. 15, 1854
Died:
Nov. 29, 1900

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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, the early 1890s saw him become one of the most popular playwrights in London. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for gross indecency for consensual homosexual acts in "one of the first celebrity trials", imprisonment, and early death from meningitis at age 46. Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. A young Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, Wilde read Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles. As a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities: he published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art" and interior decoration, and then returned to London where he worked …

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