| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Wilde, Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  w ld |
| DATES: | 1854–1900 |
| Irish-born writer. Renowned as a wit in London literary circles, he achieved recognition with The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), a novel. He also wrote plays of lively dialogue, such as The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), and poetry, including The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898).
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