About the Author

Irish-born Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), notorious for his flamboyant and unorthodox lifestyle, is best remembered for the theatrical masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest.

Reviews

'Oscar's sensibilities are so perfectly fitted to our time: sarcastic, idealistic, playful, gloomy, melodramatic, conflicted. He was a self-created superstar, with a weirdly modern awareness of all that entailed' The Guardian Wilde seems to us a very modern writer - this fascination with duplicity, expressed in comedy or horror, underlies the continuing appeal of Wilde's writing' The Independent