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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

February 2015 Old School Classics Poll

Which book would you like to read for our February 2015 Old School Classics group read?

1887, The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde, 126 pages
 
  10 votes, 20.0%

1899, The Awakening by Kate Chopin, 195 pages
 
  8 votes, 16.0%

1818, Persuasion by Jane Austen, 249 pages
 
  6 votes, 12.0%

 
  5 votes, 10.0%

 
  5 votes, 10.0%

1853, Bleak House by Charles Dickens, 1017 pages
 
  4 votes, 8.0%

 
  4 votes, 8.0%

1871, Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, 108 pages
 
  3 votes, 6.0%

 
  2 votes, 4.0%

 
  2 votes, 4.0%

 
  1 vote, 2.0%

1877, Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, 245 pages
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

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