The importance of being earnest and other plays
Title:
The importance of being earnest and other plays
Author:
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.
Personal Author:
Uniform Title:
Plays. Selections
Publication Information:
London ; New York : Penguin Books, 2000.
Physical Description:
xxx, 431 pages ; 20 cm.
Summary:
Algernon pretends to be Jack's troublesome younger brother, in Wilde's satirical assault on nineteenth-century fashions, manners, and morality.
Language:
English
Contents:
Introduction -- A note on the texts -- Select bibliography -- Lady Windermere's fan -- Salome -- A woman of no importance -- An ideal husband -- A Florentine tragedy -- The importance of being earnest -- Appendix: The excised scene -- Notes.
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Electronic Access:
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1203/2001266018-d.htmlContributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1505/2001266018-b.html
ISBN:
9780140436068
Format :
Book
