The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics) by Oscar Wilde turtles Lindsay Mattick

Lindsay Mattick

He writes with a scholar's mind and a pastor's heart

later to be developed as the delightful miniature world of Brambly Hedge

Millen is the author of BLUE BOWL DOWN: AN APPALACHIAN RHYME

Nonfiction Children's Honor Book

The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics) by Oscar Wilde turtles Lindsay MattickA new edition of Oscar Wilde's witty and radical major plays that elegantly challenge Victorian conceptions of social propriety. It contains an accessible and comprehensive new introduction that positions the plays in the context of Wilde's life, career, and the late Victorian stage. 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