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The Importance of Being Earnest
Paperback
Publisher Price: $5.99
ISBN13: 9780380012770
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: Jan 1 1976
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.46 Width: 4.20 Depth: 6.90
Language: English
The full text of Oscar Wilde's beloved comedy of manners, including exclusive commentary, selections from Wilde's correspondence, and excerpts from the original four-act version.
The Importance of Being Earnest shows a full measure of Oscar Wilde's
legendary wit, and embodies more than any of his other plays his decency and
This edition contains substantial excerpts from the original four-act
version which was never produced, as well as the full text of the final
three-act version, selections from Wilde's correspondence, and commentary by
George Bernard Shaw, Max Beerbohm, St. John Hankin, and James Agate.
It is exquisitely trivial, a delicate bubble of fancy and it has its philosophy; that we should treat all trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality. -Oscar Wilde
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