Enriched Classic: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
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Enriched Classic: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other  Plays  -     By: Oscar Wilde

Enriched Classic: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

Aladdin / 2005 / Paperback

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Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insight full commentary. The scholarship provided enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential.

This enriched classic edition includes:

  • A concise introduction that gives readers important background information
  • A chronology of the author's life and work
  • A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context
  • An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations
  • Detailed explanatory notes
  • Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work
  • Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction
  • A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience
Softcover, 378 pages.

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Title: Enriched Classic: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
By: Oscar Wilde
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 400
Vendor: Aladdin
Publication Date: 2005
Dimensions: 6.8 X 4.2 X 1.1 (inches)
Weight: 7 ounces
ISBN: 1416500421
ISBN-13: 9781416500421
Stock No: WW6500421

Publisher's Description

Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work.

Wilde’s classic comedy of manners, The Importance of Being Earnest, a satire of Victorian social hypocrisy and considered Wilde’s greatest dramatic achievement, and his other popular plays—Lady Windermere’s Fan, An Ideal Husband, and Salome—challenged contemporary notions of sex and sensibility, class and cultural identity.

Enriched Classics enhance your engagement by introducing and explaining the historical and cultural significance of the work, the author’s personal history, and what impact this book had on subsequent scholarship. Each book includes discussion questions that help clarify and reinforce major themes and reading recommendations for further research.

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Author Bio

Oscar Wilde was born on October 16, 1854, to the Irish nationalist and writer “Speranza” Wilde and the doctor William Wilde. After graduating from Oxford in 1878, Wilde moved to London, where he became notorious for his sharp wit and flamboyant style of dress.

Though he was publishing plays and poems throughout the 1880s, it wasn’t until the late 1880s and early 1890s that his work started to be received positively. In 1895, Oscar Wilde was tried for homosexuality and was convicted and sentenced to two years in prison. Tragically, this downfall came at the height of his career, as his plays, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, were playing to full houses in London. He was greatly weakened by the privations of prison life, and moved to Paris after his sentence. Wilde died in a hotel room, either of syphilis or complications from ear surgery, in Paris, on November 30, 1900.

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