| The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Literary Criticism Contributor(s): Wilde, Oscar (Author), Barnet, Sylvan (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0451532228 ISBN-13: 9780451532220 Publisher: Signet Book OUR PRICE: $5.36 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: November 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Family Life - General |
| Dewey: 828.809 |
| Series: Signet Classics |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 4" W x 6.5" (0.58 lbs) 448 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 |