TY - BOOK AU - Wilde,Oscar AU - Wilde,Oscar AU - Wilde,Oscar AU - Wilde,Oscar AU - Wilde,Oscar TI - The importance of being earnest, and other plays T2 - Penguin plays SN - 0140482091 U1 - 822.8 19 PY - 1986/// CY - Harmondsworth, England : PB - Penguin KW - theater N1 - Lady Windemere's fan -- A woman of no importance -- An ideal husband -- The importance of being earnest --Salomé N2 - 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.' ER -