The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics) by Oscar Wilde turtles "It's about time

"It's about time

Five years passed before he saw his parents again

Lindsay Mattick

at a higher reading level

The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics) by Oscar Wilde turtles "It's about timeA new edition of Oscar Wilde's witty and radical major plays that elegantly challenge Victorian conceptions of social propriety. It contains an accessible and comprehensive new introduction that positions the plays in the context of Wilde's life, career, and the late Victorian stage. The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) proclaims that it is 'A Trivial Play for Serious People'. In fact, collected here alongside Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), Salome