Oscar Wilde Biography
(Oscar O'Flahertie Fingal Wills Wilde)
- Born: 16-10-1854
- Died: 30-11-1900
- Birth Place: Dublin, Ireland
Writing

Poetry:
Ravenna (1878)
Poems (1881)
The Sphinx (1894)
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)
Plays:
Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880)
The Duchess of Padua (1883)
Salomé (French version) (1893, first performed in Paris 1896)
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
A Woman of No Importance (1893)
Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act: Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde by Lord Alfred Douglas with illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley (1894)
An Ideal Husband (1895) (text)
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) (text)
La Sainte Courtisane and A Florentine Tragedy Fragmentary. First published 1908 in Methuen's Collected Works
Prose:
The Canterville Ghost (1887)
The Happy Prince and Other Stories (1888, fairy tales)
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories (1891)
Intentions (1891, critical dialogues and essays)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891, Wilde's only novel)
A House of Pomegranates (1891, fairy tales)
The Soul of Man under Socialism (First published in the Pall Mall Gazette, 1891, first book publication 1904)
De Profundis (1905)
The Rise of Historical Criticism (published in incomplete form 1905 and completed form in 1908)
The Letters of Oscar Wilde (1960) This was rereleased in 2000, with letters uncovered since 1960, and new, detailed, footnotes by Merlin Holland.
Teleny or The Reverse of the Medal (1893)
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