The Importance Of Being Earnest & Other Plays (Macmillan Collector's Library)

Author: Oscar Wilde

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  • : $20.00 NZD
  • : 9781509827848
  • : Pan Macmillan
  • : Campbell Books Ltd
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  • : December 2016
  • : 150mm X 93mm X 25mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 19.99
  • : April 2017
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  • : Macmillan Collector's Library
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  • : New Edition
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  • : English
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Description

Oscar Wilde was already one of the best-known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance of the 1890s and retain their power today. This collection offers newly edited texts of Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, Salome, An Ideal Husband, and, arguably the greatest farcical comedy in English, The Importance of Being Earnest.

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A beautiful collector's edition of five of Oscar Wilde's classic plays

Author description

Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. He studied there, at Trinity College, and then at Oxford, where he founded the cult of aestheticism. He published several books of stories, and one novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, in 1891. He had many successes as a playwright, first with Lady Windermere's Fan in 1892, and all his plays were performed in London between 1892 and 1895. A dazzling wit and flamboyant figure, Wilde's career was cut short after his homosexuality was exposed, and he was sentenced to two years' imprisonment in 1895. Released in 1897, he fled to France where he died a broken man in 1900.