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By Patricia Hern, Oscar Wilde

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Publisher
Eyre Methuen
Edition date
1981
ISBN-13
9780413396303

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Set in England during the late Victorian era, the play's humour derives in part from characters maintaining fictitious identities to escape unwelcome social obligations. It is replete with witty dialogue and satirises some of the foibles and hypocrisy of late Victorian society. It has proved Wilde's most enduringly popular play. - [*Wikipedia*][1]

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  • British and irish drama (dramatic works by one author)
  • English life
  • Readers
  • Etiquette
  • Love
  • Manners
  • Marriage
  • Play
  • Children's fiction
  • Youth, fiction
  • Drama
  • Foundlings

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Oscar Wilde

Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)

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Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in the emerging Aestheticism movement of the late 19th century…

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The importance of being Earnest
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ISBN
9780413396303