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A Woman of No Importance

Oscar Wilde

Publisher: Sheba Blake Publishing

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Summary

Though he is now best remembered for his fiction, famed wit and bon vivant Oscar Wilde also dabbled in drama over the course of his long and varied literary career. A Woman of No Importance is a darkly comedic play about a group of aristocrats whose prim adherence to decorum hides a bevy of scandalous secrets.
Available since: 07/19/2015.

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