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This volume gathers the written correspondence of Oscar Wilde, the nineteenth-century Irish playwright, novelist, and poet known for works such as The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray. The letters offer insight into Wilde's professional relationships with publishers and fellow writers, his social connections within London and Parisian literary circles, and his personal communications with family members and close associates. The collection includes business letters regarding his dramatic productions, notes to friends such as Lord Alfred Douglas, and correspondence written during his imprisonment at Reading Gaol. These documents provide contemporary readers with primary source material illuminating Wilde's wit, his views on art and aesthetics, and the circumstances of his life during both his period of public success and his subsequent legal difficulties and exile.
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