The four great comedies of Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan A Woman of No Importance An Ideal Husband & The Importance of Being Earnest were all written at the height of the controversial Irish author's powers in his last doomed decade the 1890s They remain among the most-loved & most-quoted of all drama in the English language Along with Salome his darkly decadent dramatization of the Bible story these immortal plays continue to pack theatres & have been adapted for every kind of media This Macmillan Collector's Library edition of The Importance of Being Earnest & Other Plays echoes the book form in which Wilde originally insisted his plays were published &
Includes:: illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley & an afterword by Ned Halley Designed to appeal to the booklover the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful special gift editions of much loved classic titles Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love & treasure