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De reus die alleen aan zichzelf dacht

Oscar Wilde (author), Katrien Van der Grient (illustrator)
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Target audience:
All ages
Subject
Reuzen, Vriendschap
Title
De reus die alleen aan zichzelf dacht / verhaal van Wilde, Oscar ; geill. door Van der Grient, Katrien
Author
Oscar Wilde
Illustrator
Katrien Van der Grient
Language
Dutch
Original title
The selfish giant
Publisher
Zeist: Christofoor, 1995 | Other editions
[28] p. : ill.
ISBN
90-6238-581-8
Other languages:

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About Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his criminal conviction for gross indecency for homosexual acts.

Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. In his youth Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, he read Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Magdalen College, Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles.

He tried his hand at various literary activities: he wr…Read more on Wikipedia