by Oscar Wilde · Dover Publications · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780486264783
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«The Importance of Being Earnest» is Oscar Wilde's comedy, published by Dover Publications in paperback (64 pages, in English).
Victorian comedy of manners: two gentlemen lead double lives to evade their obligations, one invents a troublesome brother and the other a sick friend named Bunbury. Amid false identities and engagements, Wilde satirises social hypocrisy and the conventions of love and marriage with dialogue laden with epigrams.
The play premiered on 14 February 1895 at the St. James's Theatre in London. This Dover Thrift Editions edition reproduces the complete, unaltered text.
Suitable for literature students and young readers wishing to approach classical theatre in its original version.
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Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in the emerging Aestheticism movement of the late 19th century and is widely regarded as the greatest playwright of the Victorian era. Wilde is best known for his Gothic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), his epigrams, plays and bedtime stories for children, as well as his criminal conviction in 1895 for gross indecency and for practicing homosexual acts.
