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Oscar Wilde

October 16, 1854-November 30, 1900

Parents: William Wilde & Jane Francesca Agnes

Spouse: Constance Lloyd (m. 1884–1898)

Children: Cyril Holland (1885-1915) & Vyvyan Holland (1886-1967)

Age: 46

Nationality: Irish

Genre: Drama & Philosophy

Literary Era: Realism (Aestheticism)

Info.

Works

  • Vera or The Nihilists (1880)

  • The Duchess of Padua (1883)

  • The Philosophy of Dress (1885)

  • The Happy Prince (1888)

  • The Decay of the Lying (1889)

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)

  • A House of Pomegranates (1891)

  • The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

  • Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories (1891)

  • Intentions (1891)

  • Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

  • A Woman of No Importance (1893)

  • Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (1894)

  • A Few Maxims For the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)

  • An Ideal Husband (1895)

  • The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

  • Salome (1896)

  • La Sainte Courtisane (1908)

  • A Florentine Tragedy (1908)

Bio.

Here you talk about them as a kid.

And as a teenager.

Then as an adult.

Then as a successful person.

Themes

  • Beauty is the secret to life

  • Suffering is the secret to life

  • Striving upward

  • Aestheticism and art

  • ETernity and life

  • Truth and duplicity

  • Influence and responsibility

Cool Quotes

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

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