Oscar Wilde

Informations sur l’auteur ou l’autrice

Pseudonymes :
奥斯卡·王尔德, 王尔德
Naissance :
15 octobre 1854
Décès :
29 novembre 1900

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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, the early 1890s saw him become one of the most popular playwrights in London. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for gross indecency for consensual homosexual acts in "one of the first celebrity trials", imprisonment, and early death from meningitis at age 46. Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. A young Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, Wilde read Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles. As a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities: he published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art" and interior decoration, and then returned to London where he worked …

Livres de Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde: The importance of being earnest (2006, Prestwick House) Aucune note

The importance of being earnest

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Oscar Wilde: Lady Windermeres Fan (Paperback, 2007, Penguin Book UK) Aucune note

Lady Windermeres Fan

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Oscar Wilde: Canterville Ghost (Paperback, 1970, Branden Books)

Canterville Ghost

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Oscar Wilde: L'importanza di essere onesto (Hardcover, Italiano language, 2014, Newton Compton)

L'importanza di essere onesto

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Oscar Wilde: An Ideal Husband (Paperback, 2002, BookSurge Classics) Aucune note

An Ideal Husband

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Oscar Wilde: The Canterville Ghost (Paperback, 2018, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform)

The Canterville Ghost

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Oscar Wilde: Salome (Paperback, German language, 1990, Reclam-Verlag)

Salome

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