| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - That is all.[86][87] Contemporary reviewers and modern critics have postulated numerous possible sources of the story, a search Jershua McCormack argues is futile because Wilde has tapped a root of Western folklore so deep and ubiquitous that the story has escaped its origins and returned to the oral tradition.[88] Wilde claimed the plot was an idea that is as old as the history of literature
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