The Happy Prince and Other Tales

Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854–1900) was an Irish poet, playwright, essayist and novelist. He was one of London’s most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his witty quotes, humorous plays and novels. Wilde was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and Magdalen College, Oxford where he was involved in the aestheticism movement. His novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) and the comic plays, Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), were his most famous works. In 1895, Wilde was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment and thereafter he faded from the public eye. He died in Paris in 1900.