Oscar Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November
1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing
in different forms throughout the 1880s, he
became one of London's most popular playwrights
in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for
his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian
Gray, his plays, as well as the circumstances of
his imprisonment and early death.
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