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Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for gross indecency for consensual homosexual acts in'one of the first celebrity trials', imprisonment, and early death from meningitis at age 46. Contents: Novel The Picture of Dorian Gray Stories The Canterville Ghost The Happy Prince The Nightingale and the Rose The Selfish Giant The Devoted Friend The Remarkable Rocket Poetry Ravenna Charmides The Sphinx The Ballad of Reading Gaol Theocritus''The Harlot's House''To Milton''The Grave of Keats''Magdalen Walks''The New Helen''The Grave of Shelley''Eleutheria''The Garden of Eros''The Burden Of Itys''Wind Flowers'Flowers of Gold''Impressions de Théàtre''Panthea'Plays The Importance of Being Earnest