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A Woman of No Importance

A Woman of No Importance

by Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900

BookID: 854

Language:English

Reading Level:Reading ease score: 77.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.

Copyright Status:Public domain in the USA.

Man-woman relationships -- DramaEnglish drama

Description

"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.)

Class:PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

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