A Woman of No Importance: Play Guide and Free Edition
A Woman of No Importance: author and translator credits, catalogue synopsis, subjects and links to the Gutenberg reading formats.
A Woman of No Importance is catalogued by Project Gutenberg with author credits for Wilde, Oscar (1854–1900).
Catalogue synopsis
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"A Woman of No Importance" by Oscar Wilde is a play first performed in 1893. Set among English high society, the work satirizes the manners and morals of the upper class through witty dialogue and social commentary. When a young man accepts a prestigious position as secretary to a powerful lord, his mother's arrival at a country house party reveals a devastating secret from the past that threatens to upend his promising future and exposes the hypocrisy beneath polite society's surface.
Book and edition facts
- Title: A Woman of No Importance
- Author credits: Wilde, Oscar (1854–1900)
- Catalogue language: English
Catalogue subjects
- English drama
- Man-woman relationships -- Drama
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- Category: British Literature
- Category: Plays/Films/Dramas
- Plays
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