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The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility! - Oscar Wilde Attribution: Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. Algernon, in The Importance of Being Earnest, act 1.

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Oscar Wilde

Titles by Oscar Wilde:

• An Ideal Husband
• Lady Windermere's Fan
• Salome
• The Canterville Ghost
• The Importance of Being Earnest
• The Picture of Dorian Gray
• The Picture of Dorian Gray

Salem on History:

• Oscar Wilde

Critical Companions:

• Wilde, Oscar (1854 - 1900) (Gothic Literature)

eNotes:

• Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)
• Oscar Wilde (Salome)
• When Formula Seizes Form: Oscar Wilde’s Comedies (Lady Windermere's Fan)
• Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)
• Oscar Wilde (Autobiographies)
• Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost: The Power of an Audience (The Canterville Ghost)
• Oscar Wilde (The Canterville Ghost)
• Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)
• Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)
• Oscar Wilde (An Ideal Husband)
• Feasting with Panthers: The Rise and Fall of Oscar Wilde (An Ideal Husband)

Videohound Movie Retriever:

• Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie
• The Trials of Oscar Wilde

Encyclopedia:

• Wilde, Oscar (West's Encyclopedia of American Law)
• Wilde, Oscar (The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare)
• Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)
• Wilde, Oscar (The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales)

Salem on Literature:

• Oscar Wilde (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
• Oscar Wilde (Critical Survey of Drama)
• Oscar Wilde (Critical Survey of Poetry)
• Oscar Wilde (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Oscar Wilde (Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century)
• Oscar Wilde (Magill Book Reviews)
• Oscar Wilde (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
• Oscar Wilde (Magill’s Choice: Notable British Novelists)
• The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)

Literary Criticism:

• Wilde, Oscar (Drama Criticism)
• Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories, Oscar Wilde (Short Story Criticism)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Oscar Wilde is born
• Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is produced
• Oscar Wilde dies