Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.

The importance of being earnest, and other plays Oscar Wilde. - Harmondsworth, England : Penguin 1986. - 347 p. : 19 cm. - Penguin plays. .

Lady Windemere's fan -- A woman of no importance -- An ideal husband -- The importance of being earnest --Salomé

Five of Oscar Wilde's witties and best-known plays, including Lady Windermere's Fan, his first great stage success, and Lord Alfred Douglas's translation of Salomé, which Wilde originally wrote in French. Of The Importance of Being Ernest, his most famous play, Wilde wrote: 'It is exquisitely trivial, a delicate bubble of fancy, and it has its philosophy . . . that we should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.'

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