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The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

(Enriched Classics)

By Oscar Wilde

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| Mass Market Paperback | 9781416500421

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Enduring Literature Illuminated by Practical Scholarship

Wilde's classic comedy of manners, The Importance of Being Earnest, and his other popular plays -- Lady Windermere's Fan, An Ideal Husband, and Salome -- challenged comtemporary notions of sex and sensibContinue

Enduring Literature Illuminated by Practical Scholarship

Wilde's classic comedy of manners, The Importance of Being Earnest, and his other popular plays -- Lady Windermere's Fan, An Ideal Husband, and Salome -- challenged comtemporary notions of sex and sensibility, class and cultural identity.

This Enriched Classic Edition includes:

• A concise introduction that gives readers important background information

• A chronology of the author's life and work

• A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context

• An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations

• Detailed explanatory notes

• Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work

• Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction

• A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience

Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential.

Series edited by Cynthia Brantley Johnson

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  • Gerald: It is very difficult to understand women, is it not?
    Lord Illingworth: You should never try to understand them. Women are pictures. Men are problems. If you want to know what a woman really means-wich, by the way, is always a dangerous thing to do- look at her, don't listen to her. "A Woman ... (continue)

    Gerald: It is very difficult to understand women, is it not?
    Lord Illingworth: You should never try to understand them. Women are pictures. Men are problems. If you want to know what a woman really means-wich, by the way, is always a dangerous thing to do- look at her, don't listen to her. "A Woman of no importance"

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    Lunga said on Apr 11, 2012 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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    FROM "LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN":
    "Men become old, but they never become good";
    "Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes";
    "What is cynic? - A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing".

    FROM "A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE":
    "I never intend to grow old. The soul is ... (continue)

    FROM "LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN":
    "Men become old, but they never become good";
    "Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes";
    "What is cynic? - A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing".

    FROM "A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE":
    "I never intend to grow old. The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life." - "And the body is born young and grows old. That is the life's tragedy."
    "Men always want to be a woman'first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about thing. What we like is to be a man's last romance."

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    Nana88 said on Dec 4, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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