The Happy Prince: From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wildewas born on the 16th October 1854 in Dublin, Ireland. The son of Dublin intellectuals Oscar proved himself an outstanding classicist at Trinity College and then at Oxford.

Wilde then moved to London and its fashionable cultural and social circles. With his biting wit, flamboyant dress, and glittering conversation, Wilde became one of the most well-known personalities of his day.

His only novel, `The Picture of Dorian Gray' was published in 1890 and he then ...