The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Literary Criticism
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    Nov-2012
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    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    448
  • Age Level:
    18 & up
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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 Barnet and a New Afterword by Marylu Hill
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    • Nov-2012
    • Signet
    • Mass Market Paperback
    • ISBN: 0451532228
    • ISBN13: 9780451532220
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    • May-2004
    • Penguin
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1101157690
    • ISBN13: 9781101157695
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    • Jul-2012
    • Di Lernia Publishers
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Oct-2016
    • Jaico Publishing House/Mumbai/India
    • eBook (Kindle)



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