# The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

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- Authors: [Oscar Wild](https://www.bookquiver.com/oscar-wild)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4043-606-8
- Pages: 464
- Published: 2003-05-29
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Wilde was both a glittering wordsmith and a social outsider. His drama emerges out of these two perhaps contradictory identities, combining epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation. Includes Lady Windermere's Fan, Salome, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, A Florentine Tragedy and The Importance of Being Earnest, which appears in full with the " Grigsby" scene which originally made up the fourth act.