Offers newly edited texts of five of the British playwright's works, including the great farcial comedy "The Importance of Being Earnest."
Algernon pretends to be Jack's troublesome younger brother, in Wilde's satirical assault on nineteenth-century fashions, manners, and morality.
Enriched Classics enhance your engagement by introducing and explaining the historical and cultural significance of the work, the author’s personal history, and what impact this book had on subsequent scholarship.
Also included in this special collection are Wilde's first comedy success, Lady Windermere's Fan, and his richly sensual melodrama, Salome.
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hyprocrisy. ALGERNoN (looks at her in amazement): Oh! Of course I have been rather reckless.
Offers newly edited texts of five of the British playwright's works, including the great farcial comedy The Importance of Being Earnest.. Reissue.
Each volume in a collection of affordable, readable editions of some of the world's greatest works of literature features a chronology of the author's life and career, a concise introduction containing valuable background information, a ...
The texts are freshly edited using modern spelling. Critical introductions, wide-ranging annotation, and informative bibliographies illuminate the plays' cultural contexts and theatrical potential for reader and performer alike.
... Miss Worsley down some afternoon to the rectory. I should so much like dear Mrs Daubeny to hear her on the violin. Ah, I forgot. Dear Mrs Daubeny's hearing is a little defective, is it not? 470 475 48o 485 490 495 500 505 Dr DAUBENY Her ...
Three classic plays, including Wilde's most famous play which attacks Victorian manners and morals.