A couple of years ago I developed a mini obsession with Oscar Wilde. I didn't start wearing green carnations or running up huge debts at the Albemarle Club or anything, I just read a few books because, up until that time all i knew of him was that he was quite witty and wrote some plays. He'd come across my horror loving radar as the author of 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' and 'The canterville Ghost' but I'd never read him.
Well, I still haven't read much of his work but the fragrant nosegay I have plucked from his ouevre is just amazing. I defy anybody to read 'The Selfish Giant' without a lump forming in their throat (try reading it aloud to someone-the last paragraph'll kill you!)
I'd also recommend highly 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol'
Get into Oscar-he's Wilde!
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