Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde

• Michelle Hansson

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• 16 October 1854 in Dublin
• Irish writer, poet,
• journalist and prominent 
• aesthete
• Sir William Wilde- ear and eye surgeon
• Lady Jane Francesca -poet and a journalist

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• Trinity college in Dublin
• and at Oxford university.
• Brilliant student
• toured America lecturing on aestheticism.

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• In 1884 Wilde married Constance Lloyd
• Two sons Cyril and Vyvyan
• Woman's World magazine
• In 1895 two years imprisonment for violating the
  moral laws

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• Bankruptcy
• as Sebastian Melmoth lived in Italie, France
• Died of cerebral meningitis
• penniless, in a cheap Paris hotel at the age of
  46
• Père Lachaise cemetery
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Fairy- Tales

• Criticism
• Contrasts between bad and good
• Unfair society
• Unhappy endings
• Suffering is ennobling
• Vivid and lyrical

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The Happy Prince and Other Tales

• The Happy Prince
• The Nightingale and the Rose
• The Selfish Giant
• The Devoted Friend
• The Remarkable Rocket

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A House of Pomegranates

• The Young King
• The Birthday of the Infanta
• The Fisherman and his Soul
• The Star-Child

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