An edition of The plays of Oscar Wilde (1905)

Selections from the Works of Oscar Wilde

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An edition of The plays of Oscar Wilde (1905)

Selections from the Works of Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, Lady Windermere's Fan. The combination of dazzling wit, subtle social criticism, sumptuous settings and the theme of a guilty secret proved a winner, both here and in his next three plays, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and his undisputed masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest. This volume includes all Wilde's plays from his early tragedy Vera to the controversial Salome and the little known fragments, La Sainte Courtisane and A Florentine Tragedy. The edition affords a rare chance to see Wilde's best known work in the context of his entire dramatic output, and to appreciate plays which have hitherto received scant critical attention.

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Publisher
Dell
Language
English
Pages
351

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Cover of: Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde: the major works
2000, Oxford University Press
in English - [Rev.].
Cover of: Plays, prose writings and poems
Plays, prose writings and poems
1996, J.M. Dent, C.E. Tuttle
in English
Cover of: Plays, prose writings, and poems
Plays, prose writings, and poems
1991, A.A. Knopf, Distributed by Random House
in English
Cover of: Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
1989, Oxford University Press
in English
Cover of: The plays of Oscar Wilde
The plays of Oscar Wilde
1988, Vintage Books
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: The annotated Oscar Wilde
The annotated Oscar Wilde
1982, Orbis
in English
Cover of: The annotated Oscar Wilde
The annotated Oscar Wilde: poems, fiction, plays, lectures, essays, and letters
1982, C.N. Potter, Distributed by Crown Publishers
in English
Cover of: Literary criticism of Oscar Wilde.
Literary criticism of Oscar Wilde.
1968, University of Nebraska Press
in English
Cover of: Selections from the Works of Oscar Wilde
Cover of: The plays of Oscar Wilde ...
The plays of Oscar Wilde ...
1905, J. W. Luce & company
in English

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Edition Notes

On cover: Selections from the works of Oscar Wilde.

Published in
[New York
Series
A Laurel reader

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
820.8
Library of Congress
PR5811 .H6

The Physical Object

Pagination
351 p. ;
Number of pages
351

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL5816816M
LCCN
61001299
OCLC/WorldCat
2586205
LibraryThing
11846

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL14877434W

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