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The Importance of Being Earnest

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Author: Wilde, Oscar

Format: Hardback

Pages: 472

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Publisher: Pan Macmillan

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by Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest is on the English Literature A-Level syllabus for the Edexcel and AQA exam boards.

The four great comedies of Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's FanA Woman of No ImportanceAn Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, were all written at the height of the controversial Irish author's powers in his last, doomed decade, the 1890s. They remain among the most-loved, and most-quoted, of all drama in the English language. Along with Salome, his darkly decadent dramatization of the Bible story, these immortal plays continue to pack theatres, and have been adapted for every kind of media.

This Macmillan Collector's Library edition of
 The Importance of Being Earnest & Other Plays echoes the book form in which Wilde originally insisted his plays were published, and includes illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley and an afterword by Ned Halley.

Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, cloth-bound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover.

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