Oscar Wilde and his fairy-tales

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Oscar Wilde and his fairy-tales
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Oscar Fingal OFlahertie Wills Wilde(1854 1900)

• 16 October 1854
• Writer, dramatist, poet
• 21 Westland Row, Dublin
• The second of three children
• Sir William Wilde and Jane Francesca Wilde

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Jane Francesca Wilde

• Speranza
• Young Irelanders
• Irish nationalist

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William Wilde

• Eminent eye doctor
• Surgeon Occulist to the Queen
• Books about Irish archaeology and peasant
  folklore
• Children from wedlock before his marriage

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Trinity College in Dublin
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• Moved to London in 1879
• In 1881 collected poems were published
• In 1882 accepted the lecture tour in America
  which was a huge success
• Worked prolifically as a journalist

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• In 1884 married Constance Lloyd

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• They had two sons, Cyrill and Vyvyan

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• In 1895 he was sentenced to two years
  imprisonment for violating the moral laws
• Bankruptcy
• Left prison on 19 May 1897

• Left England for France
• Died a broken man on 30 November 1900 in Paris
  under the name of Sebastian Melmont

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Fairy-tales

• Social overtones
• Criticism
• Parallels between the imagination and real-life
• Unfairness
• Rarely have a truly happy ending

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The Happy Prince and Other Tales

• Sometimes called The Happy Prince and Other
  Stories
• A collection of stories for children
• The Happy Prince a short tale of a metal
  statue who befriends a migratory bird.
• Happiness to others, in life as well as in death

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