21. Oscar Wilde: An Overview Essays on wilde s writing techniques, themes, biography, and cultural background. http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/wilde/wildeov.html

22. Oscar Wilde Quotes - The Quotations Page Read the works of oscar wilde online at The Literature Page oscar wilde; A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her. http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Oscar_Wilde/

Quotation Search by keyword or author: Home Weblog Quotes of the Day Motivational ... Read books online at our other site: The Literature Page Quotations by Author Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) [more author details] Showing quotations 1 to 30 of 99 total We have 3 book reviews related to Oscar Wilde. Read the works of Oscar Wilde online at The Literature Page A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. Oscar Wilde A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her. Oscar Wilde Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. Oscar Wilde - More quotations on: [ Enemies Forgiveness America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. Oscar Wilde - More quotations on: [ America America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. Oscar Wilde - More quotations on: [ America Civilization Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. Oscar Wilde Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing. Oscar Wilde - More quotations on: [ Argument At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

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24. Oscar Wilde Quotes 207 quotes and quotations by oscar wilde. oscar wilde A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her. oscar wilde http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/o/oscar_wilde.html

Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog - it's EASY! Home Quote Topics Quote Keywords ... Author Nationalities Authors: A B C D ... Z Web brainyquote.com Oscar Wilde Quotes Type: Dramatist Quotes Category: Irish Dramatist Quotes Date of Birth: October 16 Date of Death: November 30 Nationality: Irish Find on Amazon: Oscar Wilde Related Authors: George Bernard Shaw Brendan Behan Hugh Leonard John Millington Synge ... Andrew Cherry A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing. Oscar Wilde A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. Oscar Wilde A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally. Oscar Wilde A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. Oscar Wilde A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her. Oscar Wilde A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. Oscar Wilde A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. Oscar Wilde A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

25. Oscar Wilde For further reading oscar wilde Art and Morality by Stuart Mason (1907); The Life and Confessions of oscar wilde by Frank Harris (1914); My Friendship http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/owilde.htm

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback TimeSearch for Books and Writers by Bamber Gascoigne Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet and dramatist whose reputation rests on his comic masterpieces Lady Windermere's Fan and The Importance of Being Earnest . Among Wilde's other best-known works are his only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray , which deals very similar theme as Robert Luis Stevenson 's Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde . Wilde's fairy tales are very popular - the motifs have been compared to those of Hans Christian Andersen "When they entered they found, hanging upon the wall, a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him, in all the wonder of his exquisite youth and beauty. Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognized who it was." (from The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin to unconventional parents. His mother, Lady Jane Francesca Wilde (1820-96), was a poet and journalist. Her pen name was Sperenza. According to a story she warded off creditors by reciting Aeschylus. Wilde's father was Sir William Wilde, an Irish antiquarian, gifted writer, and specialist in diseases of the eye and ear, who founded a hospital in Dublin a year before Oscar was born. His work gained for him the honorary appointment of Surgeon Oculist in Ordinary to the Queen. Lady Wilde, who was active in the women's rights movement, was reputed to ignore her husbands amorous adventures.

26. Wilde, Oscar. 1881. Poems Complete etext at Bartleby.com, indexed by title and first line. http://www.bartleby.com/143/

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28. Oscar Wilde Biography of Irish playwright oscar wilde, plus links to all of his works currently in print. http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc38.html

OSCAR WILDE (1854-1900) Oscar O'Flahertie Fingal Wills Wilde, born in Dublin, Ireland on October 16, 1854, was the second son of Sir William and Lady Jane Wilde. Sir William was a renowned surgeon who found himself embroiled in a sensational scandal in 1864 when Mary Travers, a former patient, informed a local newspaper that she had been chloroformed and raped. Lady Jane was a poet who stood six feet tall and claimed to be "above respectability." She loved to make a sensation and passed this passion on to her youngest son. In 1878, Oscar Wilde moved to London with a degree from Oxford and a burning desire to achieve stardom. He had been taught by his mother to view life as a performance, and he made a spectacle of everything, sometimes hailing a cab just to cross the street. He once wrote, "I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me." His wardrobe was designed not by tailors, but by theatre costumiers who Wilde felt would more easily understand the dramatic effects he was trying to achieve. His standard costume included a velvet coat edged with braid, knee breeches, black silk stockings, a soft loose shirt with wide low turned-down collar, and a large flowing pale green tie. He topped the costume off with sunflowers and lillies in his buttonhole, a garish touch which became almost a signature for the outrageous public figure Wilde was so shrewdly constructing. Within two years, he had made quite a name for himself, but his first play

29. OSCAR WILDE RETURNS - Sound Clip Of Paranormal Voice Recorded With British Mediu Paranormal voice of oscar wilde recorded with medium Leslie Flint. http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/oswilde.html

var sc_project=1674330; var sc_invisible=0; var sc_partition=16; var sc_security="f1584035"; OSCAR WILDE RETURNS Excerpts from the Woods/Greene collection of direct voice recordings with direct voice medium Leslie Flint Leslie Flint at a seance On 20th August 1962 a voice manifested in the seance-room of British medium Leslie Flint (see photo) which claimed to be that of the late Oscar Wilde The famous Irish poet and dramatist died in Paris in 1900. By that time he had fallen in disgrace by the prudish society. Once he was acclaimed as an artist of brilliant wit and exuberant fancy. As a dramatist his work was distinguished chiefly for brilliant epigrams. His plays included "The importance of being Earnest". He was the author of "The Picture of Dorian Gray". His life has been portrayed splendidly by actor Stephen Fry in the film 'Wilde'. Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde came through in the same facetious and sarcastic manner for which he was known whilst on Earth. At first it was not clear who was talking. When Mrs. Greene asked for his name the voice answered: "My name got me into a great deal of trouble when I was on your side!"

30. BBC - History - Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) wilde was an AngloIrish novelist, playwright, poet and critic, and a celebrity in late 19th century London. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/wilde_oscar.shtml

@import '/includes/tbenh.css'; @import '/history/historic_figures/css/historic_figures.css'; @import '/history/historic_figures/css/biography.css'; Home TV Radio Talk ... A-Z Index 28 January 2008 Accessibility help Text only BBC Homepage History Homepage Topics Ancient History British History World Wars Recent History Resources Interactive Content British Timeline Historic Figures History for Kids Practical History Archaeology Family History History Trails Community Message Board Newsletter Site guide Contact Us Like this page? Send it to a friend! Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) Wilde was an Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright, poet and critic, and a celebrity in late 19th century London. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin on 16 October 1854. His father was a successful surgeon and his mother a writer and literary hostess. Wilde was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and Magdalen College, Oxford. While at Oxford, Wilde became involved in the aesthetic movement. After he graduated, he moved to London to pursue a literary career. Drama and tragedy marred Wilde's private life. He married Constance Lloyd in 1884 and they had two sons, but in 1891 Wilde began an affair with Lord Alfred Douglas, nicknamed 'Bosie'. In April 1895, Wilde sued Bosie's father, the Marquis of Queensberry, for libel, after the Marquis has accused him of being homosexual. Wilde lost and, after details of his private life were revealed during the trial, was arrested and tried for gross indecency. He was sentenced to two years of hard labour. While in prison he composed a long letter to Douglas, posthumously published under the title 'De Profundis' . His wife took their children to Switzerland and adopted the name 'Holland'. Wilde was released with his health irrevocably damaged and his reputation ruined. He spent the rest of his life in Europe, publishing 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' in 1898. He died in Paris on 30 November 1900.

31. The Trials Of Oscar Wilde A site dedicated to the explication of the trials of the three trials of oscar wilde. Essays, transcripts, letters, images, and other materials relating to http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/wilde/wilde.htm

Wilde's Letters to Douglas Famous World Trials The Trials of Oscar Wilde Queensberry on Wilde Poems of Lord Douglas Wilde's Writings on Trial Libel Trial Transcript ... A Trial Account by Douglas O. Linder Old Bailey, the main courthouse in London, had never presented a show quite like the three trials that captivated England and much of the literary world in the spring of 1895. Celebrity, sex, witty dialogue, political intrique, surprising twists, and important issues of art and moralityis it any surprise that the trials of Oscar Wilde continue to fascinate one hundred years after the death of one of Ireland's greatest authors and playrights?.... (CONTINUED) Famous Trials Homepage Images Homosexuality and the Law

32. CELT: Chronology Of Oscar Wilde Includes poems, novels, short stories, plays, and lectures in both HTML and plain text. http://www.ucc.ie/celt/wilde.html

Home About News FAQ ... People Chronology of Oscar Wilde Novels and Stories Critical Works, Essays and Lectures Plays Poems Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde born in Dublin. began studying classics at Trinity College Dublin began studies at Magdalen College, Oxford (UK) won Newdigate Prize for his poem Ravenna ; takes degree settled in London Poems published began one year lecture tour of North America Duchess of Padua (play) written married Constance Lloyd and lived in Chelsea (London) elder son, Cyril, born; writes reviews for Pall Mall Gazette younger son, Vyvyan, born became editor of Woman's World The Canterville Ghost written The Happy Prince and Other Tales The Portrait of Mr. W. H. A House of Pomegranates The Picture of Dorian Gray Lord Arthur Savile's Crime Intentions (essays); meets Lord Alfred Douglas ("Bosie") Lady Windermere's Fan produced; (written in French) banned A Woman of No Importance produced;

33. Oscar Wilde Biography And Literary Works An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest; The Picture of Dorian Gray; and several short stories. Searchable HTML. http://www.classicreader.com/author.php/aut.62/

Fiction Non-Fiction Young Readers Poetry ... Members :: Tools Printer-friendly Oscar Wilde Titles in Fiction category: Picture of Dorian Gray, The The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. Titles in Short Stories category: Birthday of the Infanta, The It was the birthday of the Infanta. She was just twelve years of age, and the sun was shining brightly in the gardens of the palace. Canterville Ghost, The A Hylo-Idealistic Romance De Profundis . . . Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one centre of pain. The paralysing immobility of a life every circumstance of ... Devoted Friend, The One morning the old Water-rat put his head out of his hole. He had bright beady eyes and stiff grey whiskers and his tail was like a long bit of black india-rubber. The little ducks were swimming about in the pond, looking just like a lot of yellow canaries, and their mother, who was pure whi ... Fisherman and his Soul, The

34. Oscar Wilde Homepage And Biography On Bibliomania.com oscar wilde Homepage and Biography on Bibliomania.com. http://bibliomania.com/0/2/57

Oscar Wilde An Ideal Husband A note of admiration Art etching A Woman of No Importance ... The Young King Introduction "Every good man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography" ("The Critic as Artist", Intentions Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde - his name almost as preposterous and over the top as some of his attitudes and sayings - was born and grew up in Dublin. He was the son of a surgeon, Sir William Wilde and the writer Jane Francesca Elgee (known as "Speranza"). From his school days and certainly at Oxford University, it seems, the beginnings of his fanatical aestheticism could be found in his extravagant dress sense and consummate style. Wilde despised sport and violence. In his play A Woman of No Importance (1893), he sums up his feelings towards both activities while demonstrating his astonishing and famous command of wit: "The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable". Until his first expression of homosexual feelings in 1886, Oscar Wilde's works (mostly poetry) were fairly second-rate, shallow or derivative. However, his sexual revelation seemed to be a turning point: his productivity increased, and the quality improved. The guilt he felt about his homosexuality and his treatment of his wife, Constance (who he had married in 1884), and their two children, could be seen to have honed his ability to write on the themes of evil, crime and suffering. Up to the writing of

35. FireBlade Coffeehouse: Oscar Wilde Poetry and prose by oscar wilde, and a few links to pages about the man and his life. http://www.hoboes.com/html/FireBlade/Wilde/

FireBlade Coffeehouse: Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest The Picture of Dorian Gray The Selfish Giant A fairytale. Poetry The Ballad of Reading Gaol The Sphinx Charmides Eleutheria ... The Burden of Itys Off the Shelf The Martyrdom of Oscar Wilde Summary of the events leading up to the trial of Oscar Wilde. Also, his meeting with Walt Whitman. Wilde the Movie Oscariana An interesting experiment in presentation, an aesthetic window into the life of Oscar Wilde. Salome Summary and Discussion of Earnest Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde is one of the most fascinating and interesting writers Ireland has producedand his writings are almost as fascinating. Buy The Complete Oscar Wilde (Paperback) at Amazon! Buy The Portable Oscar Wilde at Amazon! Buy The Complete Oscar Wilde (Hardcover) at Amazon! Buy The Picture of Dorian Gray at Amazon! ... World Wide Wilde Web The best collection of Oscar links on the net. Includes links to his works, writings about him, and news about the family today. More About Earnest The 1890s Society Stratford Festival of Canada Eccentricity at Its Best ... Oscar Wilde Discussions at OneList There are a number of Oscar Wilde discussion groups here, in a number of languages. Mr. O.W.

36. Read Oscar Wilde Books Online - The Literature Page oscar wilde (1854 1900). Irish dramatist, novelist, poet. We have the following works by oscar wilde. Essays and Lectures, (essays), 1879, 135 pages http://www.literaturepage.com/authors/Oscar-Wilde.html

Search for a title or author: Home / News Author Index Title Index Category Index ... Contact us Also visit: The Quotations Page Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) We have the following works by Oscar Wilde Essays and Lectures (essays) 135 pages The Happy Prince and Other Tales (short stories) 48 pages The Picture of Dorian Gray (fiction) 230 pages Lady Windermere's Fan (play) 69 pages A Woman of No Importance (play) 76 pages An Ideal Husband (play) 105 pages The Importance of Being Earnest (play) 73 pages The Ballad of Reading Gaol (poem) 12 pages More about Oscar Wilde: 99 Oscar Wilde quotations at The Quotations Page Search for Oscar Wilde at Amazon.com [Back to Author Index] Search for text within these titles: (c) 2003-2005 LiteraturePage.com and Michael Moncur . All rights reserved For information about public domain texts appearing here, read the

37. Reading Wilde, Querying Spaces: An Exhibition Commemorating The 100th Anniversar An online exhibition commemorating the 100th anniversary of the trials of oscar wilde. The exhibit is grouped according to ten themes of interest in his http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/fales/exhibits/wilde/00main.htm

An Exhibition Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Trials of Oscar Wilde Reading Wilde... One hundred years ago, in the London of the elderly Queen Victoria, an event occurred which put on center stage questions of sex and morality. Starring in this drama was Oscar Wilde, novelist, poet, playwright, aesthete, reputed homosexual, enigma. The trials of Oscar Wilde offered the court of public opinion its first opportunity to debate the ethics of homosexuality; unfortunately for Wilde, his trials offered the nation's legal system the same opportunity. Convicted of practicing "indecent acts," the notorious writer spent the next two years kept to hard labor in prison, dying barely two and a half years after his release. Wilde's was a notoriety dependent on its elusiveness. Constantly challenging bourgeois Victorian notions of identity, he was the period's central chameleon-like figure, adaptively blending into his environment, but always commenting on the nature of that environment in the course of the performance. Wilde's was a life dedicated to art. He lived through art and treated life as an aesthetic, operating, perhaps perversely, through constant, self-conscious confounding of categories of meaning. When the verdict of guilty was returned for Oscar Wilde, it represented the violent reassertion of convention in response to the threats posed by his life and art. To commemorate the centenary of the Wilde trials, this exhibition and catalogue of essays return to the many sites of disruption visited by, profoundly changed by, Oscar Wilde. Drawing on the extensive holdings of first editions, autograph letters, photographs, periodicals, and ephemera from the Fales Collection of English and American Fiction, graduate students in the Victorian Studies Group at New York University trace the powerful impact of Oscar Wilde in the aesthetic, political, spiritual, and moral circles of late-Victorian England. The books and manuscripts analyzed, interpreted, and displayed are the textual fossil remains of the culture of Oscar Wilde's transgressions and containmentthe footsteps of the chameleon.

38. Oscar Wilde Quotes oscar wilde quotes, Searchable and browsable database of quotations with author and subject indexes. Quotes from famous political leaders, authors, http://www.worldofquotes.com/author/Oscar-Wilde/1/index.html

i Topics Authors Proverbs ... Quote-A-Day Main Menu Topics Authors Proverbs Today in History ... Contact Sponsor 127 Quotes for 'Oscar Wilde' in the Database. Pages: Author Letter "O" I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability. Topic: Ability Source: None In all pointed sentences some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness. Topic: Accuracy Source: None The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster. Topic: Acting Source: None The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. Topic: Advice Source: None Foxhunting... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible. Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom Source: None The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom Source: None No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. Topic: Age Source: None Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known. Topic: Art Source: None All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. Topic: Art and Artists Source: None No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

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© 2006-08 The Oscar Wilde Bookshop    15 Christopher Street, New York, NY 10014    212-255-8097   Open 11a-7p daily  info@oscarwildebooks.com Last Updated: January 23, 2008 HOME NEW RELEASES: FICTION / NON-FICTION STAFF PICKS TRANSGENDER ... VISITORS/FRIENDS The Oscar Wilde Bookshop The World’s Oldest Gay and Lesbian Bookstore Celebrating 40 years of serving the LGBT community (15 Christopher Street, New York, NY 10014)   "As in those early days, the experienced and dedicated staff welcome all to the store." Want to know what we are reading and carrying at the Oscar?   Join goodreads.com and become our friend!  Explore our various shelves and see what the right book is for you!  It is so easy and we are constantly adding books each day. Check out Kate Clinton talking about the Hillary Nutcracker we gave her on her hilarious VLOG on Afterellen.com!

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CacheBuster('') Printer Friendly over 3,000,000 articles and books Periodicals Literature Keyword Title Author Topic Member login User name Password Remember me Join us Forgot password? Submit articles free The Free Library ... Literature Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin, Ireland on October 16, 1854. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and Magdalen College, Oxford. He was considered a brilliant student. In 1878, his poem Ravenna won the Newdigate Prize. Shortly after leaving university his first volume of poetry was published. He moved to London in 1879. Wilde married Constance Lloyd, the daughter of a wealthy Dublin barrister, in 1884 and the couple had two sons. Wilde wrote fairy stories for his boys. These were later published as The Happy Prince and Other Tales. After being married for 11 years, Wilde had left his wife and began having a homosexual affair with Alfred Douglas. In May 1895, Wilde was prosecuted and imprisoned for homosexuality under the terms of the Criminal Law Amendment Act. He served two years in Old Bailey in London. Regrettable, his mother died while he was still in jail In 1897, after being released from Reading Prison, Wilde moved to France. A year later he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol, a poem inspired by his prison experience. Wilde's time in prison badly damaged his health and he died on November 30, 1900, in Paris, France, three years after leaving prison. He is buried in Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, in a tomb designed by Epstein.

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