Oscar Wilde

He died in Paris

He was sentenced to two years' hard labour

He published The Canterville Ghost

He published Poems, a collection of his early verse

He released

He published The Picture of Dorian Gray

He marriaed Consyance Lloyd

Oscar Wilde born in Dublin

1854

Oscar Wilde biography

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• Dorian's soul
• dreadful morality

The Picture of Dorian Gray

• Aesthetical movement
• Antagonism between the artist and bourgeois society
• "Either you are a work of art or you wear it"
• Themes: corruption, sexuality, privilege, poverty, the condition of women
• Style: exuberant and refined
• Deeper message

Oscar Wilde