Carmen Rado 2012 Oscar Wilde

General information Birthname: Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde Birth date: October 16, 1854 Birth place: Dublin, Ireland Death date: November 30, 1900 Death place: Paris, France Burial: La Pére Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France Hair color: Brown Eye color: Grey High school: Portora Royal School College: Trinity College, Magdalen College Occupation: Playwright, novelist, poet, editor Children: Cyril and Vyvyan

Some interesting facts Although a proficient(vilunud) and versatile(mitmekülgne) writer, Wilde only wrote one novel during his lifetime: “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” published in 1891. Went on a lecture tour throughout the United States, London and Canada to teach aesthetic(esteetiline) values in 1879. Regarded as one of the greatest playwrights of the Victorian Era, Wilde wrote and produced nine plays. In 1895 Oscar Wilde was sentenced to prison for 2 years, convicted of homosexuality.

Literary works 1878 Ravenna 1881 Poems 1888 The Happy Prince and Other Tales 1889 The Decay of Lying 1891 The Picture of Dorian Gray 1891 Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories 1891 Intentions 1891 Salome 1892 The House of Pomegranates 1892 Lady Windermere’s Fan 1893 A Woman of No Importance 1893 The Duchess of Padua 1894 The Sphinx 1895 An Ideal Husband 1895 The Importance of Being Earnest 1898 The Ballad of Reading Gaol

The Picture of Dorian Gray 20 June 1890 Artist Basil Hallward, who paintes Dorian, is blinded of his natural beauty and believes that young man has made him paint completely newly. In Basil’s studio Dorian meets lord Henry, whose worldview he deeply fascinates. Lord Henry believes that there are only 2 things to strive for(püüelda): beauty and sensory sensations(meelelised tundmused). Understanding that beauty is not permanent, Dorian wishes that instead of him agings(vananeks) his portrait.

Some quotes "Men become old, but they never become good.“ "Nowadays all the married men live like bachelors and all the bachelors live like married men.“ (bachelors-poissmehed) "Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.“ "A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."

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