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Why `Gay Icon' Oscar Wilde Would Have Opposed Gay Marriage.

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SAN FRANCISCO, April 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), one of the greatest literary figures of the 19th century, is an often-misunderstood poet, satirist, and playwright who is hailed as a "progressive" sexual liberator. A fresh and unprecedented biography on Wilde shows him as he truly saw himself. "The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde" (Ignatius Press), by Joseph Pearce - the highly acclaimed literary biographer of Tolkien, Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, Belloc and many others - reveals Wilde as a restless searcher whose fascination with Catholicism led to his eleventh-hour ...

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