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Oscar Wilde (Magill’s Choice: Notable British Novelists)

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Oscar Wilde wrote in a number of literary forms. His earliest works were poems published in various journals and collected in a volume entitled Poems in 1881. His later and longer poems, including The Sphinx (1894), were occasionally overwrought or contrived, but his final published poem, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), is regarded by many as a masterpiece. Wilde wrote two collections of fairy tales, The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888) and A House of Pomegranates (1891). He wrote several plays, most notably the...

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