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- The Importance of Being Earnest and Four Other Plays (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
The Importance of Being Earnest and Four Other Plays
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Barnes & Noble Classics Series
Author:
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
’s legendary wit dazzles in
The Importance of Being Earnest
, one of the greatest and most popular works of drama to emerge from Victorian England. A light-hearted satire of the absurdity of all forms and conventions, this comic masterpiece features an unforgettable cast of characters who, as critic Max Beerbohm obs
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erved, “speak a kind of beautiful nonsense—the language of high comedy, twisted into fantasy.” This collection also includes Oscar Wilde’s most famous comedies,
Lady Windermere’s Fan
,
A Woman of No Importance
, and
An Ideal Husband
, as well as his poetic tragedy
Salomé
—all written between 1891 and 1895, Wilde’s most creative period. George Bernard Shaw said of Oscar Wilde that he is “our most thorough playwright. He plays with everything: with wit, with philosophy, with drama, with actors and audience, with the whole theater.”
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ISBN-13:
9781593080594
ISBN-10:
159308059X
Publication Date:
12/1/2003
Pages:
416
Rating:
Currently
4.5
/5 Stars.
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Publisher:
Barnes & Noble
Book Type:
Paperback
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Classic tale of English society at the time of its writing.
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