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Wilde, Oscar

  1. An Irish-born author of the late nineteenth century, who spent most of his career in England . Wilde was famous for his flamboyant wit and style of dress. His best-known works include the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and the play The Importance of Being Earnest . He urged art for art's sake .


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Notes

Wilde was convicted of homosexual activity and spent about two years in prison. The poem “The Ballad of Reading Gaol” (jail) is based on his experiences there.

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Example Sentences

And the Absinthe House has a full list: Other famous imbibers include P.T. Barnum, Oscar Wilde, and General Robert E. Lee.

A new specialist tour company will take its first group of tourists overseas to reveal the real-life landmarks of Oscar Wilde.

Oscar Wilde referred to memory as “the diary that we all carry about with us.”

Oscar Wilde, it should be noted, had also been touched by early loss: his sister, Isola, died at age nine of meningitis.

Oscar Wilde spent a year in the U.S. and met the likes of Walt Whitman and Henry James.

At the present moment the works of Oscar Wilde are being sold in enormous quantities and in many editions.

Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets.

Oscar Wilde once remarked that only superficial people disliked the superficial.

If disobedience is man's original virtue, as Oscar Wilde suggested, it was an extraordinarily virtuous century.

Little by little the feeling of prejudice against the work of Oscar Wilde began to die away.

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