Author Information
Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. He studied at Trinity College there and later at Oxford, where he founded the cult of aestheticism. He published several short story collections and a novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, in 1891. As a playwright, he achieved great success, initially with Lady Windermere's Fan in 1892, and all his plays were performed in London between 1892 and 1895. As a sharp-witted humorist and flamboyant personality, Wilde's career came to an abrupt end when his homosexuality was revealed, leading to a two-year prison sentence in 1895. After his release in 1897, he fled to France, where he died in 1900 as a broken man.

Blurb
The four great comedies by Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and The Importance of Being Earnest, were all written during the heyday of the controversial Irish author.