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WILDE OSCAR

NAME: Oscar Wilde OCCUPATION: Writer BIRTH DATE: October 16, 1854 DEATH DATE: November 30, 1900 PLACE OF BIRTH: Dublin, Ireland PLACE OF DEATH: Paris, France FULL NAME: Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde

SELECTED WORKS
Ravenna (1878)

Poems (1881)
The Happy Prince and Other Stories(1888, children tales)

The Soul of Man under Socialism(1891, political essay) Lady Windermere`s Fan(1892, play) A Woman of No Importance (1893, play) An Ideal Husband (performed 1895, published 1898; play) The Importance of Being Earnest (performed 1895, published 1898; play) The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898, poem)

Lord Arthur Saville`s Crime and Other Stories(1891, stories)


House of Pomegranates(1891, fairy stories) Intentions (1891, essays and dialogues on aesthetics) The Picture of Dorian Gray(first published in Lipincott's July 1890,

BEST KNOWN FOR


The Picture of Dorian Gray and (novel)
The

Importance of
Being Earnest (play)

Aesthetic Movement Dandyism

SUPPORTER OF

JOBS

Lecturer in Usa & canada (1882)

Lecturer In England & ireland (1883-1884)

Editor at ladys world (1885)

IMPRISONME

DEATH 30 NOVEMB ER 1900


TOMB DESIGNED BY SIR JACOB EPSTEIN
Paris, france Pere

QUOTES

CYRIL
DIED FIGHTING DURING WWI

Vyvyan
Change his last name to holland, become translator for bbc and author of son of oscar Wilde

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