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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London’s most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, and the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death.

To Milton by Oscar Wilde

Story type: LiteratureMilton! I think thy spirit hath passed awayFrom these white cliffs and high-embattled towers;This gorgeous fiery-coloured world …

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Categories Literature, Oscar Wilde, Stories Tags Fiction

The Truth of Masks – A Note On Illusion by Oscar Wilde

Story type: LiteratureIn many of the somewhat violent attacks that have recently been made on that splendour of mounting which now characterises our S …

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A Florentine Tragedy – A Fragment by Oscar Wilde

Story type: TheaterCHARACTERS:GUIDO BARDI, A Florentine princeSIMONE, a merchantBIANCA, his wifeThe action takes place at Florence in the early sixtee …

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La Sainte Courtisane – A Fragment by Oscar Wilde

Story type: TheaterThe scene represents the corner of a valley in the Thebaid. On the right hand of the stage is a cavern. In front of the cavern stan …

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The Fisherman and his Soul by Oscar Wilde

Story type: Literature[TO H.S.H. ALICE, PRINCESS OF MONACO]Every evening the young Fisherman went out upon the sea, and threw his nets into the water. …

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The Star-Child by Oscar Wilde

Story type: Literature[TO MISS MARGOT TENNANT–MRS. ASQUITH]Once upon a time two poor Woodcutters were making their way home through a great pine-fores …

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Four Things

The world is supported by four things:

  • The learning of the wise
  • The justice of the great
  • The prayers of the righteous and
  • The valor of the brave

But, all of these are as nothing without a ruler who knows the art of ruling.

Sun Rise

Every morning in Africa, when the Sun rises, a deer awakens, knowing it has to outrun the fastest lion, or, be hunted to death …

Every morning in Africa, when the Sun rises, a lion awakens, knowing it has to outrun the slowest deer, or, be starved to death …

It does not matter whether you are a deer or lion, when the Sun rises, better be running at your best.

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