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Author:
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.
Title:
The importance of being earnest and other plays / Oscar Wilde ; with an introduction by Sylvan Barnet ; and a new afterword by Elise Bruhl and Michael Gamer.
Publisher:
Signet Classics,
Copyright Date:
2012
Description:
xxxiv, 201 p. ; 18 cm.
Subject:
Mistaken identity--Drama.
English drama (Comedy)
England--Social life and customs--19th century--Drama.
Comedies.
Other Authors:
Barnet, Sylvan.
Bruhl, Elise.
Gamer, Michael.
Notes:
This edition features an appendix that restores lines that appeared in the original four-act play. Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-201).
Contents:
Afterword. Chronology -- Salom -- Lady Windermere's fan -- The importance of being earnest : a trivial comedy for serious people -- Appendix The Gribsby episode in The importance of being earnest -- Afterword.
Summary:
Algernon pretends to be Jack's troublesome younger brother, in Wilde's satirical assault on nineteenth-century fashions, manners, and morality.
ISBN:
0451531892 (pbk.)
9780451531896 (pbk.)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)774610852
UPC:
071149004952
Locations:
BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)
HPPD845 -- Orange City Public Library (Orange City)
UBPC631 -- Webb Shadle Public Library (Pleasantville)

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