The Best of Oscar Wilde
- ISBN-10
- 0715627694
- ISBN-13
- 9780715627693
- Pages
- 184
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- Duckworth
- Author
- Oscar Wilde
Description
Oscar Wilde's infamous wit, taste for scandal, and gift for revealing the hypocrisies of fashionable society are on display here in this collection of his finest plays. A genius both of and ahead of his time, he built his craft on the eternal questions of right and wrong--with pithy dialogue as fresh today as when it was written. In addition to Wilde's five major plays, this Signet Classics edition contains: - Two interviews with the playwright at the peak of his career, in which Wilde discusses his work--and his critics- Some of his most brilliant critical writing, in which he discusses the nature of art in terms that anticipate much of today's literary theory- An appendix that restores valuable lines that appeared in the original text of "The Importance of Being Earnest"
With an Introduction by Sylvan Barnetand a New Afterword by Marylu Hill
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Other editions
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- 2012-11-06
- 397 pages
- Paperback
- Signet Classics