Oscar Wilde: 'The Importance of Being Earnest'

A collection of literature anthologies and reference books for Key Stage 3 onwards. `The truth is rarely pure, and never simple.'' `. . .in married life three is company and two is none.'' Is this play a `unique work of art'' as Oscar Wilde believed? Or, as a first-night reviewer claimed in 1895, it `represents nothing, means nothing, is nothing''? This is for you to decide. . . Cambridge Literature is a series of study texts which presents writing in the English-speaking world from the 16th century up to the present day. The series includes novels, drama, short stories, poetry, essays and other types of non-fiction. Each edition has the complete text with an appropriate glossary. The student will find in each volume a helpful introduction and a full section of resource notes encouraging active and imaginative study methods.

• | Author: Oscar Wilde, John Lancaster
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: May 06, 1999
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780521639521
• | ISBN-10: 0521639522