{"product_id":"vintage-wilde-importance-of-being-earnest-other-plays","title":"Vintage Wilde: Importance of Being Earnest \u0026 Other Plays","description":"Product Description      \nWho would have thought a comedy of manners written more than a hundred years ago would still be so apt and so funny? Oscar Wilde was a genius of play-writing, and his deftness, wit and sharp eye for social satire keep audiences in thrall to this day. Alongside\nEarnest, discover a biblical tragedy retold, Lady Windemere and her infamous fan and Wilde's take on an ideal husband, in this selection of Wilde's most important plays.\n      Review      \n[\nThe Importance of Being Earnest] has a strong claim to being the most perfect comedy in the English language ―\nDaily Telegraph\n\n[\nThe Importance of Being Earnest] remains a thing of inimitable brains and beauty; the sharpest of social satires, wrapped in the most perfect of gossamer-light romantic comedies ―\nScotsman\n\nOscar Wilde's masterpiece about political chicanery, fraud, blackmail and the hypocrisy of public figures retains an alarming currency ―\nExpress (on An Ideal Husband)\n      About the Author      \nOscar Wilde was born in Dublin on 16 October 1854. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin and Magdalen College, Oxford. He later lived in London and married Constance Lloyd there in 1884. Wilde was a leader of the Aesthetic Movement. His only novel,\nThe Picture of Dorian Gray, was first published in\nLippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890. He published a revised and expanded edition in 1891 in response to negative reviews which criticised the book s immorality. Wilde became famous through of the immense success of his plays such as\nLady Windemere's Fan (1892),\nAn Ideal Husband (1895) and\nThe Importance of Being Earnest (1895).\n\nIn 1985, after a public scandal involving Wilde's relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas, he was sentenced to two years' hard labour in Reading Gaol for 'gross indecency'. His poem\nThe Ballad of Reading Gaol was based on his experiences in prison and was published in 1898. After his release, Wilde never lived in England again and died in Paris on 30 November 1900. He is buried in Père Lachaise cemetery.","brand":"Vintage Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39660535545941,"sku":"9781784871529N","price":4.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/2ddbb487-412f-40ba-9c47-650dfcb77000.jpg?v=1644282994","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/products\/vintage-wilde-importance-of-being-earnest-other-plays","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}