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Author · 1854–1900

Oscar Wilde

Irish poet and playwright.

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The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde · 1893

A satirical three-act play that reduces Victorian respectability to linguistic games. It works because every line lands like a scalpel, not a sermon. Skip any production that treats it as heart-warming—it is not.

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde · 1890

Wilde's only novel, 1890, a portrait that ages while its subject remains frozen at twenty-five. The brief covers the pact, the corruption, why the painting becomes the moral record the man refuses to be, and what breaks first.