OSCAR WILDE
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	Life Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. His father was a celebrated surgeon, his mother a writer. The family lived in the elegant quarter of Dublin. After the studies, in the 1879 Wilde soon became the leading personality of English decadentism. He led an intense social life; his wit and his brilliant conversation, his affected paradoxes, as well as his extravagant attitudes made him the lion of London high society. In 1884 he married Costance Lloyd, and for few years led a quieter life; two children were born to them. After a lot of tragedy, Wilde wrote The picture of Dorian Gray. In the 1895 Wilde’s popularity reached the apex, but his challenge to Victorian moralism, and particularly his close relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas was fatal to him. Douglas’s father accused Wilde of homosexual practices, and fatal revelations came out and the writer was sentenced to two years imprisonment with hard labour. The terrible experiences in imprisonment broke him down completely, and when he was released from the prison in 1897 he had become poor and unknown. Wilde spent the rest of his life on the Continent; his death in Paris in 1900 put an end to his squalid and miserable last years.
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