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• The Importance of Being Earnest

  Oscar Wilde

  
  This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and reader's notes to help the modern reader appreciate Wilde's wry wit and elaborate plot twists.

  Oscar Wilde's madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers' entanglements still delights readers more than a century after its 1895 publication and premiere performance. The rapid-fire wit and eccentric characters of The Importance of Being Earnest have made it a mainstay of the high school curriculum for decades.

  Cecily Cardew and Gwendolen Fairfax are both in love with the same mythical suitor. Jack Worthing has wooed Gewndolen as Ernest while Algernon has also posed as Ernest to win the heart of Jack's ward, Cecily. When all four arrive at Jack's country home on the same weekend, the rivals to fight for Ernest's undivided attention and the Ernests to claim their beloved's pandemonium breaks loose.

  Only a senile nursemaid and an old, discarded hand-bag can save the day!

  
   

• A Woman of No Importance (Library Edition Audio CDs)

  Oscar Wilde

  
  Devilishly attractive Lord Illingworth is notorious for his skill as a seducer. But he is still invited to all the best houses while his female conquests must hide their shame in seclusion. In this devastating comedy, Wilde uses his celebrated wit to expose English society s narrow view of everything from sexual mores to Americans.
  
   

• The Ballad of Reading Gaol: 1898

  Oscar Wilde

  
  This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare s finesse to Oscar Wilde s wit, this unique collection brings together works as diverse and influential as The Pilgrim s Progress and Othello. As an anthology that invites readers to immerse themselves in the masterpieces of the literary giants, it is must-have addition to any library.
  
   

• An Ideal Husband, (Classic Books on CD Collection) [UNABRIDGED]

  Oscar Wilde, Flo Gibson (Narrator)

  
  A tender love story, a serpentine villainess, a glittering setting in London society, and a shower of Wildean witticisms are only a few of the reasons this play has enjoyed so many successful revivals, including the 1999 film version. This 1985 drama explores the predicament of a promising young politician who is desperate to hide a secret from his past that might undo his career and his marriage. Jacqueline Bisset, Rosalind Ayres, Martin Jarvis, Alfred Molina, Miriam Margolyes, and Yeardley Smith star.
  
   

• Collected Works of Oscar Wilde (Wordsworth Special Editions) (Wordsworth Collection)

  Oscar Wilde

  
  Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace, artistry and wit, of which the best-known is The Happy Prince. Counterpoints to this were his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, which shocked and outraged many readers of his day, and his stories for adults which exhibited his fascination with the relations between serene art and decadent life. Wilde took London by storm with his plays, particularly his masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest. His essays - in particular De Profundis- and his Ballad of Reading Gaol, both written after his release from prison, strikingly break the bounds of his usual expressive range. His other essays and poems are all included in this comprehensive collection of the works of one of the most exciting writers of the late nineteenth century.
  
   

• Salome

  Oscar Wilde

  
  Originally published in 1906. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.
  
   

• Salome: A Tragedy In One Act

  Oscar Wilde

  
  
   

• La importancia de llamarse Ernesto (Spanish Edition)

  Oscar Wilde

  
  La importancia de llamarse Ernesto o La importancia de ser formal, cuyo título original en inglés es The Importance of Being Earnest, es una obra de Oscar Wilde escrita en 1895. Es una comedia que trata sobre las costumbres y la seriedad de la sociedad.
  
   

• The Importance of Being Earnest (Classic Drama S.)

  Oscar Wilde

  
  This is one of the great recordings of a great play. John Gielgud stars as Earnest and Edith Evans gives her indomitable performance as Lady Bracknell in this classic radio recording from 1951. Performance styles may have changed, but this is an unmatched production bearing all the hallmarks of outstanding audio drama featuring some of the finest actors of the 20th century. Also included are two collections of poetry readings by John Gielgud and Edith Evans.
  
   

• Lady Windemere's Fan

  Oscar Wilde

  
  In this comedy of manners, Mrs. Erlynne is suspected of having an affair with Lady Windemere's husband. A misplaced fan causes further complications. Two 60-minute cassettes.
  
   

• Salome/ Under the Hill: Oscar Wilde/Aubrey Beardsley (Creation Classics)

  Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley

  
  This joint centennial edition of Salome and Under the Hill, united by seventeen of Beardsley's unsurpassable drawings, is a timely rehabilitation of these two all-too-often ignored fin-de-siecle texts, and constitues a volume of unadulterated Decadent Erotica which must surely stand as the apogee of its kind.

  Censored, banned, and ridiculed upon publication, Oscar Wilde's Salome, written in 1892 in the French language, must now be viewed as one of the greatest of all Decadent texts; an aesthetic masterwork which has seldom been accorded due respect.

  Salome is an evocation of biblical horror in which blasphemies abound. More than this, its atmosphere seethes with a dangerous erotic charge from the very outset. Relentless, hypnotic repetitions in the words, arranged in fugue candences, the tale unfolds with the inexorable acceleration of an orgasmic nightmare.

  Aubrey Beardsley's Under the Hill, a short work commenced in 1894, but left unfinished at the time of Beardsley's premature demise, nonetheless achieves the quintessence of Decadence, an evocation of a synaesthetic pleasure dome. A unique and indispensable text for any who seek the uttermost extremes of the manifest imagination.

  
   

• The Definitive Four Act Version of the Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People

  Oscar Wilde

  
  
   

• Salomé (French Edition)

  Oscar Wilde

  
  Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), de son nom complet Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, est un écrivain irlandais, né à Dublin, Irlande. Oscar fait d'abord de brillantes études au Trinity College de Dublin, puis au collège Magdalen d'Oxford; il s'y distingue par son goût pour la discussion, le raffinement, ce qui lui vaudra d'être raillé par ses camarades. En 1897 il quitte l'Angleterre pour la France, où il demeure quelque temps à Berneval, près de Dieppe en Normandie, sous le nom de Sébastien Melmoth, en référence au roman Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) de Charles Robert Maturin, un des romans fondateurs du courant gothique en littérature. Maturin était par ailleurs le grand-oncle de Wilde. En ces dernières décennies du XIXe siècle, Wilde incarne une nouvelle sensibilité qui apparaît en réaction contre le positivisme et le naturalisme. Dans sa préface au Le Portrait de Dorian Gray (1891), il défend la séparation de l'esthétique et de l'éthique, du beau et du moral. Ses oeuvres comprennent: Le Crime de Lord Arthur Savile (1887), Le Portrait de Monsieur W. H. (1889) et Salomé (1893).
  
   

• The Importance of Being Earnest

  Oscar Wilde

  
  
   

• The Plays of Oscar Wilde (A Dolphin Book)

  
  
   

• Salome

  Oscar Wilde

  
  Red cloth with gold gilt design on cover and top edge. 16 drawings by Beardsley.
  
   

• Salome: A drama in one act

  Oscar Wilde

  
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