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The Importance of Being Earnest & Other Plays Hardcover - 2017

by Oscar Wilde


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Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. The four great comedies of Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husbandand 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 have continued to pack theatres to this day, and have been adapted for every kind of media. The plays were originally published in book form at Wilde's own insistence, the better to spread his genius wide. Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley, with an afterword by Ned Halley.

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  • Title The Importance of Being Earnest & Other Plays
  • Author Oscar Wilde
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Hardback
  • Pages 472
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher MacMillan Collector's Library
  • Date 2017-03-21
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781509827848 / 1509827846
  • Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 6 x 3.9 x 1 in (15.24 x 9.91 x 2.54 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Identity (Psychology), Comedies
  • Dewey Decimal Code 822.8

About the author

Jules Gabriel Verne was born in the seaport of Nantes, France, in 1828 and was destined to follow his father into the legal profession. In Paris to train for the bar, he took more readily to literary life, befriending Alexander Dumas and Victor Hugo, and living by theatre managing and libretto-writing. His first science-based novel, Five Weeks in a Balloon, was issued by the influential publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel in 1862, and made him famous. Verne and Hetzel collaborated to write dozens more such adventures, including 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea in 1869 and Around the World in 80 Days in 1872. In later life Verne entered local politics at Amiens, where had had a home. He also kept a house in Paris, in the street now named Boulevard Jules Verne, and a beloved yacht, the Saint Michel, named after his son. He died in 1905.
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