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Oscar Wilde


Born
in Dublin, Ireland
October 16, 1854

Died
November 30, 1900

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Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his criminal conviction for gross indecency for homosexual acts.
Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. In his youth, Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, he read Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Magdalen College, Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and Joh
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Quotes by Oscar Wilde  (?)
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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
Oscar Wilde

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
Oscar Wilde

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
Oscar Wilde

Polls

November 2016 Revisit the Shelf Poll

 
  53 votes, 20.6%

Persuasion by Jane Austen, 249 pages, 1818
 
  41 votes, 16.0%

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, 505 pages, 1861
 
  34 votes, 13.2%

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster, 376 pages, 1924
 
  33 votes, 12.8%

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, 592 pages, 1957
 
  27 votes, 10.5%

 
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