1. Oscar Wilde:
The sphinx without a secret

2. Oscar Wilde He was born in Dublin in 1854. His mother was a writer
too.
He died in Paris in 1900.

3. Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde
He studied in many universities, as Oxford or the Trinity College.
He was in prison for 2 years.

4. He wrote The sphinx without a secret in 1891

5. The sphinx without a secret
Main characters:
Oswald
Lord Murchison
Lady Alroy

6. The sphinx without a secret
Oswald saw his friend Lord Murchison in a restaurant. They hadn’t met for ten years.
Murchison was strange and Oswald thought that it was because of a woman.

7. The sphinx without a secret
Oswald and Murchison went to a calm place to talk.
By the way, they saw a yellow carriage and Murchison didn’t like this colour…

8. The sphinx without a secret
Murchison showed Oswald a photograph of a mysterious woman and he asked about her.
Murchison told a story.

9. The sphinx without a secret
One day, Murchison saw a yellow carriage where there was a very pretty woman.
He was looking for the woman for some days.
Finally, Lord Murchison was invited to a party where he saw Lady Alroy and he fell in love with her.

10. The sphinx without a secret
When Murchison went to visit her, the servant said that she wasn’t at home.
Alroy answered Murchison’s letter and she accepted to meet another day

11. The sphinx without a secret
Murchison surprised her while she was going into a ballroom.
Her headscarf fell down and Murchison picked it up.

12. The sphinx without a secret
Murchison went to talk to her but she lied to him.
He got angry, insulted her and he left.

13. The sphinx without a secret
Later, he received a letter from Alroy and gave it back without opening it.
He went abroad that night
When he came back, Alroy had died.

14. The sphinx without a secret
He decided to investigate why she was so mysterious.
He discovered that Lady Alroy liked to be the main character on the mysterious books that she read.