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Oscar fingal oflahertie wills wilde was born on october 16, 1854, in dublin, ireland. Oscar fingal oflahertie wills wilde was an irish playwright, poet, and author of numerous short stories, and one novel. From his outsize celebrity in victorian london to his authorship of fiction, drama, and poetry that uniquely captured his era, its fair to say that wilde succeeded on both counts. Ebooks by oscar wilde online reading and free download. He is remembered for his epigrams, his novel the picture of dorian gray, his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. Hyde recorded in the annotated oscar wilde that yeats called it a great or almost great poem, but the fact that he chose only thirtyeight of the poem s 109 stanzas for publication in the oxford book of modern verse suggests his awareness.
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