The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays - Penguin Plays

Oscar Wilde

Paperback (25 Sep 1986)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Wilde was both a glittering wordsmith and a social outsider. His drama emerges out of these two perhaps contradictory identities, combining epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation. Includes Lady Windermere's Fan, Salome, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, A Florentine Tragedy and The Importance of Being Earnest, which appears in full with the "Grigsby" scene which originally made up the fourth act.

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Book information

ISBN:	9780140482096
Publisher:	Penguin Group (UK)
Imprint:	Penguin Books
Pub date:	25 Sep 1986
DEWEY:	822.8
DEWEY edition:	21
Number of pages:	347
Weight:	196g
Height:	181mm
Width:	112mm
Spine width:	24mm