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Best Oscar Wilde books?

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I'm not a fan of the new Earnest film, but then I don't think that anything can really surpass Asquith's 1952 version with Michael Redgrave and the divine Edith Evans. I think I heard, incidentally, that the director was the son of HH Asquith who, as Home Secretary, brought the charges of sexual immorality against Wilde.
There's also a wonderful picture in the National Gallery's current Americans in Paris exhibition which my brother and I immediately lit upon as that of Dorian Gray. Partly because it was next to a picture of "Mr. W.H."...

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The Picture of Dorian Gray is by far Wilde's best work... i can see why it may have been used at his trial, his whole being seems to permiate the text... it's a really sensual piece of literature,