The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
(Paperback, Enriched Classic)
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Publishing Details
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
By (Author) Oscar Wilde
Simon & Schuster
Simon Spotlight Entertainment
1st August 2005
Enriched Classic
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Fiction: general and literary
822
Physical Properties
Paperback
400
Width 106mm, Height 171mm, Spine 23mm
225g
Description
Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work.
Wildes classic comedy of manners, The Importance of Being Earnest, a satire of Victorian social hypocrisy and considered Wildes greatest dramatic achievement, and his other popular playsLady Windermeres Fan, An Ideal Husband, and Salomechallenged contemporary notions of sex and sensibility, class and cultural identity.
Enriched Classics enhance your engagement by introducing and explaining the historical and cultural significance of the work, the authors personal history, and what impact this book had on subsequent scholarship. Each book includes discussion questions that help clarify and reinforce major themes and reading recommendations for further research.
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Author Bio
Oscar Wilde was born on October 16, 1854, to the Irish nationalist and writer Speranza Wilde and the doctor William Wilde. After graduating from Oxford in 1878, Wilde moved to London, where he became notorious for his sharp wit and flamboyant style of dress.
Though he was publishing plays and poems throughout the 1880s, it wasnt until the late 1880s and early 1890s that his work started to be received positively. In 1895, Oscar Wilde was tried for homosexuality and was convicted and sentenced to two years in prison. Tragically, this downfall came at the height of his career, as his plays, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, were playing to full houses in London. He was greatly weakened by the privations of prison life, and moved to Paris after his sentence. Wilde died in a hotel room, either of syphilis or complications from ear surgery, in Paris, on November 30, 1900.
