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Born: 16 October 1854 (Dublin, Ireland)
Dead: 30 November 1900 (aged 46) (Paris, France)

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Portora Royal School, Ireland, where Oscar Wilde was educated.

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He was the second child of Jane Agnes and William Wilde. His mother was a poet and his father, who had several love affairs and many illegitimate children, was an eye and ear surgeon. His younger sister, Isolda, named after Tristan's lover, died at the age of nine.

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After finishing his studies, he moved to London, where he quickly became an important personality due to his way of dressing and his charisma. Two years later he published several poems that launched his career.

He also lectured in the United States for some time and after his return to London, he married Constance Lloyd. She was the daugther of a rich lawyer.

Together they had 2 children but because of his lectures he was away from home most of the time. His homosexuality, often represented on his novels, led to a big amount of affairs with young mans.

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Because of his affairs, he was acused and senteced of sodomy. The consequences where two years of hard labour. In those years his family never visited him.

Once released, and destroyed morally and financially, he immediately moved to Paris where he died three years later of an acute meningitis.

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1. The Canterville Ghost (1887)
2. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
3. A woman of no importance (1893)
4. The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
5. An Ideal Husband (1895)

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He was often accused of writing immoral books to wich he responded with the following phrase:

"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all." - Oscar Wilde

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He was the most famous poet and playwright of the 19th century. He wrote with wit, humor, and much sociopolitical criticism.

His characters were very psychologically complex and his stories very different from each other.

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He was homeschooled until he was nine years old and was considered a prodigy. After school, he got a scholarchip and studied the Classics at the Trinity Collage Dublin (Ireland). He also studied at the Magdalen College (Oxford) and graduated with honors.