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Books by Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was an Irish playwright, poet, novelist, and wit who became one of the most famous literary figures in London in the 1880s and 1890s. He is best known for his plays The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband, and Lady Windermere's Fan, and for the prose poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol, written after his imprisonment. The Picture of Dorian Gray, his only novel, was published in 1890 and used as evidence against him at his 1895 trials for gross indecency. He was sentenced to two years of hard labor, effectively destroying his career and health. He died in Paris in 1900 at 46.