Oscar Wilde ... Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde[a] (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he …

Feb 19, 2026 · Oscar Wilde (born October 16, 1854, Dublin, Ireland—died November 30, 1900, Paris, France) was an Irish wit, poet, and dramatist whose enduring fame rests on his only novel, The …

May 23, 2025 · Oscar Wilde was an author, playwright, and poet in late Victorian England known for The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest. Originally from Ireland, he began writing...

Oscar Wilde was an Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest playwrights of the Victorian Era. In his lifetime he wrote nine plays, one novel, and …

Sep 25, 2025 · Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish writer best known for The Picture of Dorian Gray and witty plays like The Importance of Being Earnest. He became a cultural icon for his flamboyant …

When Oscar Wilde married Constance Lloyd on 29 May 1884, he was a few months short of his thirtieth birthday, and Constance was twenty-five. Although Wilde was well-known as a wit and a lecturer – …

Oscar Wilde © Wilde was an Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright, poet and critic, and a celebrity in late 19th century London. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin on 16...

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was a poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, short-story writer and master of the epigram and one-liner.

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His lasting literary fame resides primarily in four or five plays, one of which—The Importance of Being Earnest, first produced in 1895—is a classic of comic theater. His only novel, The Picture of Dorian …