Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, long considered one of the greatest British authors in history, was in fact born in Dublin. In 1854 he married Constance Lloyd, with whom he had two sons. He was one of the leading personalities in the aesthetic movement, a move towards a more artistic lifestyle. In 1895, Wilde was arrested and tried for "gross indecency," which led to his imprisonment. Three years after his release and self-imposed exile in 1897, he died of cerebral menengitis, believed to have been contracted during his imprisonment at Reading Gaol. His tomb in Paris is still visited year-round by his numerous admirers.

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• The Picture of Dorian Gray

• The Happy Prince and Other Tales

• Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde

• An Ideal Husband
• For Love of the King
• The Importance of Being Earnest