OSCAR WILDE WAS ONE of the most successful Irish playwrights of the late Victorian era and his light-hearted play The Importance of Being Earnest continues to be staged regularly around the world. It was being performed in London in the 1890s when Wilde became embroiled in legal battles that led ultimately to his tragic two-year spell in jail, serving a two-year hard labor sentence.
Wilde was more than a dramatist. He also wrote novels, poems, essays, dialogues and fairy tales, and he was an important contributor to the emergence of the Aestheticism movement of the 19th Century. This anthology gathers works of all genres in a single volume.
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