by Oscar Wilde · Penguin Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140622454
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«A Woman of No Importance» is the play by Oscar Wilde published by Penguin Books in paperback (96 pages, in English).
During a party at Lady Hunstanton's country house, young Gerald is appointed secretary to the attractive Lord Illingworth. His mother opposes it without giving reasons: she hides a secret that links the two men. With irony and sharp dialogue, Wilde portrays Victorian hypocrisy and the double standard between men and women.
The play was originally published in 1893. This Penguin Books edition belongs to the Penguin Popular Classics collection.
For readers of Victorian theater and comedies of manners who appreciate Oscar Wilde's irony and social criticism.
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in the emerging Aestheticism movement of the late 19th century and is widely regarded as the greatest playwright of the Victorian era. Wilde is best known for his Gothic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), his epigrams, plays and bedtime stories for children, as well as his criminal conviction in 1895 for gross indecency and for practicing homosexual acts.
