<p>Including some of Oscar Wilde's most well-known and infamous plays, 'Lady Windermere's Fan', 'A Woman of No Importance', 'An Ideal Husband' and 'The Importance of Being Earnest', this collection of the writer's works displays his brilliant, quick wit to its full glory.</p>

The Plays of Oscar Wilde (Collins Classics)

Oscar Wilde,Oscar Wilde

History

Harper Press

Oscar Wilde's audacious drama of social scandal centres around the revelation of Mrs Arbuthnot's long-concealed secret. A house party is in full swing at Lady Hunstanton's country home, when it is announced that Gerald Arbuthnot has been appointed secretary to the sophisticated, witty Lord Illingworth. Gerald's mother stands in the way of his appointment, but fears to tell him why, for who will believe Lord Illingworth to be a man of no importance.

A Woman of No Importance

Penguin Group

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher.  1907. Excerpt: ... FIRST ACT SCENE The octagon room at Sir Robert Chilterris house in Grosvenor Square. The room is brilliantly lighted and full of guests. At the top of the staircase stands Lady Chiltern, a woman of grave Greek beauty, about twenty-seven years of age. She receives the guests as they come up. Over the well of the staircase hangs a great chandelier with wax lights, which illumine a large eighteenthcentury French tapestry -- representing the Triumph of Love, from a design by Boucher-- that is stretched on the staircase wall. On the right is the entrance to the music-room. The sound of a string quartette is faintly heard. The entrance on the left leads to other receptionrooms. MRS. MARCHMONT and LADY BASILDON, two very pretty women, are seated together on a Louis Seize sofa. They are types of exquisite Act L fragility. Their affectation of manner has a delicate charm. Watteau would have loved to paint themJ MRS. MARCHMONT Going on to the Hartlocks' to-night, Margaret? LADY BASILDON I suppose so. Are you? MRS. MARCHMONT Yes. Horribly tedious parties they give, don't they? LADY BASILDON Horribly tedious! Never know why I go. Never know why I go anywhere. MRS. MARCHMONT I come here to be educated. LADY BASILDON Ah! I hate being educated! MRS. MARCHMONT So do I. It puts one almost on a level with the commercial classes, doesn't it? But dear Gertrude Chiltern is always telling me that I should have some serious purpose in Act I. life. So I come here to try to find one. LADY BASILDON [Looking round through her lorgnette^ I don't see anybody here to-night whom one could possibly call a serious purpose. The man who took me in to dinner talked to me about his wife the whole time. MRS. MARCHMONT How very trivial of him! LADY BASILDON Terribly trivial! What did your man talk about? MRS. MARCHmoNT A...

Complete Illustrated Oscar Wilde

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

Bounty Books

In May of 1895 Oscar Wilde, the century's most dazzling man of letters, was sentenced to two years with hard labour for 'acts of gross indecency with another male person.' On his release he moved to France, where he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol: an indictment of the prison system and the death penalty, an anguished plea for prison reform, and a passionate expression of sympathy for his fellow prisoners, those 'souls in pain'.  The Ballad of Reading Gaol was a success from its first publication, and to this day some of its lines are among the most famous in the English language.  Peter Hay's powerful images are retained in this new edition which contains an Afterword by Peter Stoneley, drawing on unpublished material in the prison archives.

Ballad of Reading Gaol

Two Rivers Press

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The Plays of Oscar Wilde (Collins Classics)

A Woman of No Importance

Complete Illustrated Oscar Wilde

Ballad of Reading Gaol