Name: Lady Windermere'S fan (Warbler Classics)
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Author: Oscar Wilde
ISBN: 9781954525733

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Lady Windermere'S fan (Warbler Classics)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Oscar Wilde

Epilogue by

Ulrich Baer

Publisher

Warbler Press Inc.

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

104

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3 x 13.3 x 0.6 cm

Weight

0.13 kg.

ISBN13

9781954525733

Synopsis "Lady Windermere'S fan (Warbler Classics) "

Oscar Wilde's first major success on the stage, Lady Windermere's Fan premiered in London in 1892 to sold-out fashionable crowds. The social comedy centers on a woman who has been cast out of and hopes to re-enter society but ultimately sacrifices herself to save her grown daughter's dignity and social standing. Filled with some of Wilde's best-known and wittiest epigrammatic sayings, the play's exposure of upper-class hypocrisy is far deeper and more poignant than such funny writing ought to allow.Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish playwright, poet, and novelist, known for his biting wit, defense of aesthetics, and defiance of social conventions. The author of celebrated comedies, including The Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Windermere's Fan, An Ideal Husband, and the iconic novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, at the height of his fame he was sentenced to two years' hard labor for "gross indecency" with men. He died penniless in Paris three years after his release from prison. He ranks among the most celebrated writers in English literature.

Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde is considered one of the most prominent playwrights of late Victorian London. Additionally, he was a celebrity of the time due to his great and sharp wit. Today, he is remembered for his epigrams, his short stories, his plays, his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the tragedy of his imprisonment, followed by his premature death.

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