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Oscar Wilde was born in Ireland in 1854 and educated in Dublin and Oxford. He became the leading exponent of aestheticism and a famous wit, intellectual and raconteur. He wrote children's stories, poetry, philosophical essays and several hugely popular plays, but The Picture of Dorian Gray was his only novel. The book was a succes de scandale, and later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895, when he was tried and imprisoned for homosexual acts. Wilde died in 1900 in exile in Paris.
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- Contributor: Oscar Wilde
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- ISBN13: 9780141199498
- Number of Pages: 256
- Packaged Dimensions: 129x198x11mm
- Packaged Weight: 181
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- Release Date: 2012-06-28
- Series: The Penguin English Library
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Oscar Wilde was born in Ireland in 1854 and educated in Dublin and Oxford. He became the leading exponent of aestheticism and a famous wit, intellectual and raconteur. He wrote children's stories, poetry, philosophical essays and several hugely popular plays, but The Picture of Dorian Gray was his only novel. The book was a succes de scandale, and later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895, when he was tried and imprisoned for homosexual acts. Wilde died in 1900 in exile in Paris.
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