A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde
"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. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 |
|---|---|
| Title | A Woman of No Importance |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Woman_of_No_Importance |
| Credits | David Price |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 77.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Man-woman relationships -- Drama |
| Subject | English drama |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 854 |
| Release Date | Mar 1, 1997 |
| Most Recently Updated | Mar 14, 2025 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1691 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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