The Importance of Being Earnest & Other Plays

by Oscar Wilde, Ned Halley (Introduction)

Overview

A beautiful collector's edition of five of Oscar Wilde's classic plays

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781509846740
Publisher:	Pan Macmillan
Publication date:	03/23/2017
Series:	Macmillan Collector's Library , #101
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	472
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Jules Gabriel Verne was born in the seaport of Nantes, France, in 1828 and was destined to follow his father into the legal profession. In Paris to train for the bar, he took more readily to literary life, befriending Alexander Dumas and Victor Hugo, and living by theatre managing and libretto-writing. His first science-based novel, Five Weeks in a Balloon, was issued by the influential publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel in 1862, and made him famous. Verne and Hetzel collaborated to write dozens more such adventures, including 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea in 1869 and Around the World in 80 Days in 1872. In later life Verne entered local politics at Amiens, where had had a home. He also kept a house in Paris, in the street now named Boulevard Jules Verne, and a beloved yacht, the Saint Michel, named after his son. He died in 1905.

Date of Birth:

October 16, 1854

Date of Death:

November 30, 1900

Place of Birth:

Dublin, Ireland

Place of Death:

Paris, France

Education:

The Royal School in Enniskillen, Dublin, 1864; Trinity College, Dublin, 1871; Magdalen College, Oxford, England, 1874

Table of Contents

Introduction

Biography

Further Reading

Lady Windemere's Fan

A Woman of No Importance

An Ideal Husband

The Importance of Being Earnest

Salome