Importance of Being Earnest (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Wilde, Oscar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140436065 ISBN 13: 9780140436068

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2001

Synopsis

The crowning plays of one of Ireland's most heralded artists

Oscar Wilde was at once a family man and a homosexual outsider, a socialite, socialist, and Irish nationalist. His contradictions inspired him to ponder the roles and masks donned in conventional society, and his acute and wry insights are wonderfully displayed in this collection of his essential plays. Known not only for his brilliant, epigrammatic language, but also for his sense of theatrical design, color, and staging, Wilde created an enduring body of finely crafted works, whose delights and ironies still speak to modern audiences. In addition to Lady Windermere's Fan, Salomé, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, A Florentine Tragedy, and The Importance of Being Earnest, this edition contains an introduction, notes and commentaries, and an excised scene from The Importance of Being Earnest.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

About this title

Book Description:

A collection of literature anthologies and reference books for Key Stage 3 onwards.

From the Publisher:

This is a full cast production with sound effects and original music produced at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0140436065
• ISBN 13: 9780140436068
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464
• Editor: Cave Richard Allen