The social marketplace for new and used books.

Get started

For the authors

Support

Track a shipment

Company

Contact us

Fast delivery with

Safe payments by

© 2026 Bookis AS

English

The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

Paperback • 2025 • English • 2. edition

The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

8 Ratings • 4.8 of 5

‌
‌

‌

‌
‌

‌
‌

‌

‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌

‌

About the book

'It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.' The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) proclaims that it is 'A Trivial Play for Serious People'. In fact, collected here alongside Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), Salome (1891, 1894), A Woman of No Importance (1893), and An Ideal Husband (1895), Earnest shows that the questions raised by Wilde's plays are anything but trivial. Witty and radical, they elegantly challenge Victorian social proprieties, featuring...Show more

Book details

ISBN

9780192848024

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published year

2025

Language

English

Edition

2

Original title

The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

Format

Paperback

Shippping and returns

Shipping

Used books are shipped by the seller. Expected delivery after package is sent is 2-4 days.

Returns

Contact the seller after delivery.

Reviews · 0

8 Ratings • 4.8 of 5

You might also like

The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

Epigrams & Aphorisms

Epigrams & Aphorisms

Monsieur Oscar Wilde

Only Dull People Are Brilliant At Breakfastassics

Only Dull People Are Brilliant At Breakfastassics

Oscar Wilde

All's Well That Ends Well

All's Well That Ends Well

William Shakespeare

The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde

The Beggar's Opera and Polly

The Beggar's Opera and Polly

John Gay

Penguin English Library the Picture of Dorian Gray

Penguin English Library the Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

The Plays of Oscar Wilde

The Plays of Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

The Canterville Ghost The Happy Prince: And Other Stories

The Canterville Ghost The Happy Prince: And Other Stories

Oscar Wilde

The Oxford Shakespeare. Titus Andronicus

The Oxford Shakespeare. Titus Andronicus

William Shakespeare

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

Lewis Carroll

The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salom…

The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salom…

Oscar Wilde,

Eighteenth-Century Women Dramatists

Eighteenth-Century Women Dramatists

Mary Pix

The Oxford Shakespeare

The Oxford Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

Decay of Lying

Decay of Lying

Oscar Wilde

An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fiction

An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fiction

Paul Salzman

Lysistrata and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)

Lysistrata and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)

Aristophanes

classical_comedy-aristophanes_birds-menanders_girl_from_samos-plautuss_brothers_

classical_comedy-aristophanes_birds-menanders_girl_from_samos-plautuss_brothers_

aristophanes-menander-plautus-terence-erich-segal

Oscar Wilde - Stories For Children.

Oscar Wilde - Stories For Children.

Oscar Wilde

A midsummer night's dream

A midsummer night's dream

Division of Psychoanalysis of the American Psychological association.) Atlas Galit (New York University

Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night

William Shakespeare

The Misanthrope, Tartuffe and Other Plays

The Misanthrope, Tartuffe and Other Plays

Molière

Collected Poems of Oscar Wilde

Collected Poems of Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

This Stage-play World Texts and Contexts, 1580-1625

This Stage-play World Texts and Contexts, 1580-1625

Julia Briggs

The sayings of Oscar Wilde

The sayings of Oscar Wilde

Wilde, Oscar

The School for Scandal and Other Plays

The School for Scandal and Other Plays

Richard Brinsley

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Richard Ellmann

The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde by Oscar wilde (1987) Hardcover

The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde by Oscar wilde (1987) Hardcover

Oscar Wilde

The importance og being Earnest

The importance og being Earnest

Oscar Wilde