He wrote a political romance about a barmaid who refuses to kill the czar, but it only lasted a week on the stage. Before the failure of Vera, he wrote about Mrs. Cheveley's attempt to blackmail Sir Robert Chiltern in his play An Ideal Husband. He wrote that "each man kills the thing he loves" in a poem about of a prisoner who "did not wear his scarlet coat," "The Ballad of Reading Gaol." He is better known for a novel centering on a painting by 
He wrote a political romance about a barmaid who refuses to kill the czar, but it only lasted a week on the stage. Before the failure of Vera, he wrote about Mrs. Cheveley's attempt to blackmail Sir Robert Chiltern in his play An Ideal Husband. He wrote that "each man kills the thing he loves" in a poem about of a prisoner who "did not wear his scarlet coat," "The Ballad of Reading Gaol." He is better known for a novel centering on a painting by Basil Hallward and a play which includes the young Cecily Cardew and the friends Jack and Algernon. For 10 points, name the author of The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest.
He wrote a political romance about a barmaid who refuses to kill the czar, but it only lasted a week on the stage.
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde