The importance of being earnest and other plays
(2000)
Nonfiction
Book
Series:
Call Numbers:
822.8/WILDE,O
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Details
PUBLISHED
London ; New York : Penguin Books, 2000
DESCRIPTION
xxx, 431 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780140436068, 0140436065, 0613642910, 9780613642910, 9780140436068
LANGUAGE
English
SERIES
NOTES
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
Algernon pretends to be Jack's troublesome younger brother, in Wilde's satirical assault on nineteenth-century fashions, manners, and morality