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The Sunday Times reported that on the first night of Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), Wilde appeared on stage after the final curtain call and told the audience how pleased he was that they evidently liked the piece as much as he did himself. The play brought him wealth and cemented his reputation for brilliant wit and devil-may-care conduct. It dramatises middle-class Victorian hypocrisy while arguing that one does well to keep a nice balance between honesty and concealment: Lady Windermere, suspecting her husband to have an affair with the experienced Mrs Erlynne, decides to leave him for the debonair Lord Darlington. In circumstances highly compromising for both, Mrs Erlynne sacrifices her reputation for Lady Windermere - an act of maternal love, for it turns out that she is Lady Windermere's mother and has been blackmailing Windermere to keep quiet about it. Lady Windermere remains innocent of the truth and her mother marries to live abroad..
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This Vintage edition of The Plays_of Oscar Wilde contains the plays that made Wilde one of the most important dramatists of his time, including The Importance of Being Earnest, one of the great works of modern literature.

Oscar Wilde's plays demonstrate once again why their author must be seen as both an inaugurator and a master of modernism. In his best work, the subversive insights embedded in his wit continue to challenge our common assumptions. Wilde's ability to unsettle and startle us anew with his radical vision of the artifice inherent in the self's construction makes him our contemporary.

This edition is introduced by John Lahr, author of Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton. The plays included are Lady Windermere's Fan, Salome, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and The Importance of Being Earnest..
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Romantic mystery in which the search for the identity of a baby’s skeleton leads the protagonist to her lover in a former life..
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Zoe has fought her way back from a nervous breakdown after the drowning death of her toddler and a miscarriage She begins hearing the voice of her dead son calling her, she slips on marbles left on a stairway and falls down a flight of stairs, but later there are no marbles to be found, her favorite music box, a carousel horse disappears but she still hears the music in the night. Reluctantly she accepts that her husband, Joseph, is trying to drive her into another breakdown. When that fails, he plans murder.Her childhood friend, Wiley, becomes her ally in a struggle to stay alive. When Joseph, knowing of her fear of water, kidnaps her and takes her on a wild and frightening trip to Machinac Island, she is convinced he is going to drown her and make it appear to have been suicide.Water continues to be her nemesis, and the conclusion forces Zoe to conquer her fear. She swims for her life..
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