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A Woman of No Importance

Oscar Wilde

  • 94 pages · about 2 hours
  • First published 1893
  • 176 editions
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1 About this book

Oscar Wilde's audacious drama of social scandal centres around the revelation of Mrs Arbuthnot's long-concealed secret. A house party is in full swing at Lady Hunstanton's country home, when it is announced that Gerald Arbuthnot has been appointed secretary to the sophisticated, witty Lord Illingworth. Gerald's mother stands in the way of his appointment, but fears to tell him why, for who will believe Lord Illingworth to be a man of no importance?

Good for readers who want: essays, a classic, a play, and a short read.

  • Essays
  • Classics
  • Relationships
  • Drama
  • Children's fiction

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3 About Oscar Wilde

1854–1900

Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in the emerging Aestheticism movement of the late 19th century and is widely regarded as the greatest playwright of the Victorian era.

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