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TITLE:
The importance of being earnest and other plays / Oscar Wilde ; with an introduction by Sylvan Barnet ; and a new afterword by Elise Bruhl and Michael Gamer.
Publication Date:
2012, 1956
Publication Information:
New York : Signet Classics,
Physical Description:
xxxiv, 201 p.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-201).
Summary:
Algernon pretends to be Jack's troublesome younger brother, in Wilde's satirical assault on nineteenth-century fashions, manners, and morality.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780451531896
General Note:
This edition features an appendix that restores lines that appeared in the original four-act play.