The Importance of Being Earnest & Other Oscar Wilde Classic Plays

• This book three plays bounds together British playwright Oscar Wilde's greatest plays from the early 1890s: Lady Windemere’s Fan, An Ideal Husband & The Importance of Being Earnest.

Lady Windemere’s Fan
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” Lady Windermere takes a lover after discovering that her husband may be involved with a woman he invites to her birthday ball. In typical Wilde style, the play is a mixture of witty banter with a biting theme. Wilde’s satire of Victorian morals and marriage was published in 1893.

The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People.
This is high farce in which the main characters maintain fictitious personalities to escape their social obligations. The dialogue has made it one of Wilde’s most popular and enduring plays, including the line: "Oh! it is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read." The play was first performed in 1895.

An Ideal Husband
Over the course of 24 hours, Wilde explores private and public honour involving blackmail and political corruption. Should we be judged by our past? Wilde’s view can be summed up in the line: “Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.” The work was first published in 1893.