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Books: The importance of being a Wilde man; The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde By Joseph Pearce HarperCollins Publishers, pounds 17.99.(Features)

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From: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
Date: 20000313
Author:Armstrong, Rankin

THERE is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about.

Words of the poet, playwright and satirist Oscar Wilde, whose extraordinary life and times ensured that this was something that would certainly never happen to him.

Oscar Fingal O'Flaherty Wills Wilde, to give him the full, flamboyant names he was born with, died poverty-stricken in Paris 100 years ago, scorned by all but a small number ...

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