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Chiefly remembered today as a playwright, especially for the importance of being earnest, and as the author of the picture of dorian gray. The picture of dorian gray barnes and noble classics barnes and noble. Wildes secret life isnt exactly secret anymore, but british journalist mckenna aims to chronicle, in salacious detail, his relations with every boy from the time he arrived at oxfords magdalen college in 1874 through his imprisonment for gross indecency in 1895 and beyond. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of londons most popu. Oscar fingal oflahertie wills wilde was an irish writer, poet and prominent aesthete.
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