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Tên đầy đủ: Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, sinh ngày 16.10.1854.

Oscar Wilde là một nhà văn, nhà thơ, nhà biên kịch và phê bình nổi tiếng của Ireland. Năm 1871, ông học tại Trinity College (Dublin), sau đó học tại Magdalen College (Oxford, 1874-1878). Ở đây ông đã gặp và chịu ảnh hưởng của nhà văn, nhà phê bình Walter Pater (1839-1894) và ủng hộ phong trào ”nghệ thuật vị nghệ thuật". Ông cũng chính là người khởi xướng việc giảng dạy phong trào nghệ thuật này.

Năm 1878, Oscar Wilde nhận giải Newdigate của Oxford cho bài thơ Ravenna. Năm 1884, Wilde kết hôn và cùng gia đình định cư tại Chelsea (London), tiếp tục viết và làm việc cho các tạp chí như Pall Mall Gazette và biên tập viên của Women's world (1887 – 1889).

Ông xuất bản sách truyện cổ tích đầu tiên năm 1888 với tác phẩm The Happy Prince and Other Stories (Hoàng tử hạnh phúc và những câu chuyện khác). Ông sáng tác nhiều và thành công với lối viết tự nhiên, trong sáng. Ông cũng thành công với quyển tiểu thuyết duy nhất The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891). Sở trường của ông là biên kịch và với giọng văn trào phúng, châm biếm cùng với cách chơi chữ hóm hỉnh, ông đã sản xuất các phim hài như Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), An Ideal Husband (1895) và The importance of being earnest (1895), Salomé (1896).

Năm 1895, Wilde bị buộc tội "có lối sống không đứng đắn” đối với hành vi “tình dục đồng giới” với 02 năm lao động khổ sai. Sau khi ra tù vào tháng 5/1897, ông đã dành phần đời còn lại của mình ở châu Âu, xuất bản "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" trong năm 1898. Ông qua đời tại Paris vào ngày 30 Tháng 11 năm 1900 vì bệnh viêm màng não.

Các tác phẩm tiêu biểu

  • Poems (1881)
  • The Happy Prince and Other Stories (1888, truyện cổ tích)
  • Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories (1891, truyện)
  • House of Pomegranates (1891, truyện cổ tích)
  • Intentions (1891, tiểu luận và đối thoại về thẩm mỹ)
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (in lần đầu năm 1890, ra sách 1891, tiểu thuyết)
  • The Soul of Man under Socialism (1891, luận chính trị)
  • Lady Windermere's Fan (1892, kịch)
  • A Woman of No Importance (1893, kịch)
  • An Ideal Husband (thực hiện năm 1895, xuất bản năm 1898; kịch)
  • The Importance of Being Earnest (thực hiện năm 1895, xuất bản năm 1898; kịch)
  • De Profundis (viết năm 1897, các bản khác 1905, 1908, 1949, 1962; thơ dài)
  • The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898, thơ)
A House of Pomegranates

A House of Pomegranates

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A House of Pomegranates is a collection of fairy tales, written by Oscar Wilde, that was published in 1891 as a second collection for The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888). Wilde once said that this collection was "intended neither for the British child nor the British public." The stories included in this collection are as follows: The Young King The Birthday of...
A Woman of No Importance

A Woman of No Importance

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A Woman of No Importance is a play by Irish playwright Oscar Wilde. The play premièred on 19 April 1893 at London's Haymarket Theatre. Like Wilde's other society plays, it satirizes English upper class society. It has been performed on stages in Europe and North America since his death in 1900. The play opens with a party on a...
An Ideal Husband

An Ideal Husband

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An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedic stage play by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honour. The action is set in London, in "the present", and takes place over the course of twenty-four hours. "Sooner or later," Wilde notes, "we shall all have to pay for what we do." But he adds...
Charmides, and Other Poems

Charmides, and Other Poems

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Wilde’s Poems, a selection of which is given in this volume, were first published in volume form in 1881, and were reprinted four times before the end of 1882.  A new Edition with additional poems, including Ravenna, The Sphinx, and The Ballad of Reading Goal, was first published (limited issues on hand-made paper and Japanese...
Children in Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life

Children in Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life

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"Wherever there is centralisation there is stupidity." This is an ardent letter from Oscar Wild to the editor of the London Daily Chronicle calling for attention in regard to several hateful conditions in the English prisons. What makes this reading so sad is one being exposed to the amount of cruelties not only Oscar Wilde had to go through while in prison and the the agony and torment some of...
Essays and Lectures

Essays and Lectures

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With the exception of the Poems in Prose this volume does not contain anything which the author ever contemplated reprinting. The Rise of Historical Criticism is interesting to admirers of his work, however, because it shows the development of his style and the wide intellectual range distinguishing the least borné of all the late Victorian writers, with the possible exception of Ruskin....
For Love of the King

For Love of the King

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The very interesting and richly coloured masque or pantomimic play which is here printed in book form for the first time, was invented sometime in 1894 or possibly a little earlier.  It was written, not for publication, but as a personal gift to the author’s friend and friend of his family, Mrs. Chan Toon, and was sent to her with the letter that follows and explains its...
Hoàng Tử Hạnh Phúc Và Những Truyện Khác

Hoàng Tử Hạnh Phúc Và Những Truyện Khác

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Hoàng tử hạnh phúc và những truyện khác là một trong hai tập truyện cổ tích mà Oscar Wilde đã viết cho hai cậu con trai của ông. Hoàng tử hạnh phúc là một trong những câu chuyện đặc sắc trong tập truyện này về tình yêu và sự hy sinh...
Lady Windermere's Fan

Lady Windermere's Fan

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Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman is a four-act comedy by Oscar Wilde, first produced 22 February 1892 at the St James's Theatre in London. The play was first published in 1893. Like many of Wilde's comedies, it bitingly satirises the morals of Victorian society, particularly marriage.  The story concerns Lady Windermere, who discovers that her...
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and other stories

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and other stories

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Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories is a collection of short semi-comic mystery stories that were written by Oscar Wilde and published in 1891. It includes: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime The Canterville Ghost The Sphinx Without a Secret The Model Millionaire In later editions, another story, The Portrait of Mr. W. H., was added to the collection.
Reviews

Reviews

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Wilde’s literary reputation has survived so much that I think it proof against any exhumation of articles which he or his admirers would have preferred to forget. As a matter of fact, I believe this volume will prove of unusual interest; some of the reviews are curiously prophetic; some are, of course, biassed by prejudice hostile or friendly; others are conceived in the author’s...
Salomé

Salomé

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Salome (French: Salomé, pronounced: [salome]) is a tragedy by Oscar Wilde. The original 1891 version of the play was in French. Three years later an English translation was published. The play tells in one act the Biblical story of Salome, stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas, who, to her stepfather's dismay but to the delight of...
The Ballad of Reading Gaol

The Ballad of Reading Gaol

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The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile either in Berneval-le-Grand or in Dieppe, France, after his release from Reading Gaol (pronounced "redding jail") on 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading, after being convicted of homosexual offences in 1895 and sentenced to two years' hard labour in prison.  During...
The Canterville Ghost

The Canterville Ghost

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"The Canterville Ghost" is a popular short story by Oscar Wilde, widely adapted for the screen and stage. It was the first of Wilde's stories to be published, appearing in the magazine The Court and Society Review in February 1887. It was later included in a collection of short stories entitled Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories in 1891.  The...
The Duchess of Padua

The Duchess of Padua

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The Duchess of Padua is a play by Oscar Wilde. It is a five-act melodramatic tragedy set in Padua and written in blank verse. It was written for the actress Mary Anderson in early 1883 while in Paris. After she turned it down, it was abandoned until its first performance at the Broadway Theatre in New York under the...
The Happy Prince and Other Tales

The Happy Prince and Other Tales

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The Happy Prince and Other Tales (sometimes called The Happy Prince and Other Stories) is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde first published in May 1888. It contains five stories, The Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose, The Selfish Giant, The Devoted Friend, and The Remarkable Rocket. It is most famous for its title story, The Happy Prince.
The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People

The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People

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The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personæ to escape burdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play's major...
The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray

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The Picture of Dorian Gray is an 1891 philosophical novel by Irish writer and playwright Oscar Wilde. It was first published as aserial story in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. As submitted by Wilde to the magazine, the editors feared the story was indecent, and deleted five hundred words before publication - without Wilde’s knowledge. Despite that censorship, The...
The Soul of Man under Socialism

The Soul of Man under Socialism

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The Soul of Man under Socialism is an 1891 essay by Oscar Wilde in which he expounds a libertarian socialist worldview and a critique of charity. The writing of The Soul of Man followed Wilde's conversion to anarchist philosophy, following his reading of the works of Peter Kropotkin.  In The Soul of Man Wilde argues that,...

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