Name: The Importance of Being Earnest
SKU: 58983600
Price: 18.63 EUR
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Author: Oscar Wilde
ISBN: 9781480098299

Type

Physical Book

Author

Oscar Wilde

Illustrated by

Alex Struik

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

102

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x0.5 cm

Weight

0.15 kg.

ISBN13

9781480098299

Synopsis "The Importance of Being Earnest"

The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at St. James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae in order to escape burdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play's major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage, and the resulting satire of Victorian ways. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams and plays, and the circumstances of his imprisonment which was followed by his early death.

Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde is considered one of the most prominent playwrights of late Victorian London. Additionally, he was a celebrity of the time due to his great and sharp wit. Today, he is remembered for his epigrams, his short stories, his plays, his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the tragedy of his imprisonment, followed by his premature death.

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