Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde was an Irish writer celebrated for the precision of his wit, his social comedies and his exploration of beauty, performance and hypocrisy. His plays made him one of the best-known dramatists of the 1890s, while The Picture of Dorian Gray and De Profundis reveal the more serious moral and emotional range of his work.

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