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    Wilde, Oscar

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    Known for his barbed wit, Oscar Wilde was one of the most successful late - Victorian playwrights and a great celebrity.  The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray are among his best known works.  He is perhaps most famous for his trial, in which he eloquently defended homosexual love and was sentenced to two years of hard labor. ;

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    An eminent Irish playwright, novelist and poet, Wilde belonged to the late Victorian Era. Known for his role in Aesthetic and Decadent movements and his barbed wit, he was imprisoned on account of gross indecency for writing on taboo subjects.;

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