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Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Irish poet and dramatist whose reputation rests on his comic masterpieces Lady Windermere's Fan(1892) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). Among Wilde's other best-known works are his only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray(1891) and his fairy tales especially "The Happy Prince."

Wilde was born on October 16, 1854 in Dublin to unconventional parents. In 1878Wilde received his B.A. and in the same year he moved to London. His lifestyle and humorous wit soon made him the spokesman for Aestheticism, the late 19th century movement in England that advocated art for art's sake. Between the years 1883 and 1884 he lectured in Britain. From the mid-1880s he was a regular contributor for Pall Mall Gazette and Dramatic View. In 1884 Wilde married Constance Lloyd.Wilde's marriage ended in 1893. He had met an few years earlier Lord Alfred Douglas, an athlete and a poet, who became both the love of the author's life and his downfall.

Although married and the father of two children, Wilde's personal life was open to rumors. His years of triumph ended dramatically, when his intimate association with Alfred Douglas led to his trial on charges ofhomosexuality (then illegal in Britain). He was sentenced to two years hard labor for the crime of sodomy. Wilde was first in Wandsworth prison, London, and then in Reading Gaol. During this time he wrote De Profundis (1905), a dramatic monologue and autobiography, which was addressed to Alfred Douglas.

After his release in 1897 Wilde in Berneval, near Dieppe. He wrote "The Ballad of Reading Gaol",revealing his concern for inhumane prison conditions. Wilde died of cerebral meningitis on November 30, 1900, penniless, in a cheap Paris hotel at the age of 46.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

A plot began with meeting of Lord Henry and young, handsome Dorian Gray. Their common friend was Basil Hallward, who loved Dorian’s portrait and who had found a long searched muse in him. For Basil it was thebest work he had ever done. Basil was shocked when Dorian said to him that he could never look at this picture again. It had a reason, Dorian is jealous of this picture. He knew that the picture would be always same, but he would be older and older, meanwhile the body would have the laugh of him. At that time he wanted for the first time to be just like that stature in a picture. He wished to beyoung forever.
Dorian and Lord Henry became very good friends. But Lord Henry was very depraved. Dorian’s a little bit naive, unstained and young view at the life was rapidly changed. They say the life is only about a beauty, which is most important, and that is why Henry advised him to be young the longest time possible. Dorian’s soul was struggling with weird and scary inside disputes about whatis and what is not right. Dorian found a solace and an innocent in beautiful and young actress, Sibyl vane, who he fall in love with and he depended entirely on her. But she was wholly elated by their one another’s love, so that she didn’t want to live her characters in drama, but her own life. Dorian was disappointed by her change and he left her with a scorn. Next day Dorian got to know that shehad committed a suicide. He was overwhelmed, but Henry was the reason, why he fastly forgot.
He was becoming cruel, impassive and scary. It was also for the first time he found out that there was something bad going on with his own portrait. The portrait was becoming a view on his awesome soul and it was just like the reflection in the mirror, but there was one y big difference. It was showinghis scary inside, not just the body’s reflection. All bad what he had done was written (noticed) in his face. Dorian decided to hide his portrait, so that nobody could see it. Dorian was having the laugh of his portrait which was continually becoming older and older. There was something weird because he was still as handsome and old as when the portrait had been made. His life was becoming more...