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Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish writer, poet, and playwright. His novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, brought him lasting recognition, and he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era with a series of witty social satires, including his masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest.
"Oscar Wilde is one of many authors I self-prescribe whenever my attention span is in smithereens... His aphorisms are mental calisthenics; within a few paragraphs your mind will be back in shape and ready to somersault through jokes, innuendo, barbarism, charisma and destruction."
Anita Felicelli is a fiction writer.
You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one, you seem to want to throw it away. It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. —Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
author: EROU (@FourWayBooks, 2019), NERD (@AtriaBooks, 2022) | critic at large @nytimes | rep: @JuliaREagleton
I love me some Oscar Wilde. I reviewed this slick modern-day adaptation of “The Picture of Dorian Gray” from the UK and named it a critic’s pick: https://t.co/wpqjV1Le3X