A Woman of No Importance
| Language | en |
|---|---|
| First published | 1997-03-01 |
| Rights | Public domain in the USA. |
| Gutenberg ID | #854 |
Description
"A Woman of No Importance" by Oscar Wilde is a play first performed in 1893. Set among English high society, the work satirizes the manners and morals of the upper class through witty dialogue and social commentary. When a young man accepts a prestigious position as secretary to a powerful lord, his mother's arrival at a country house party reveals a devastating secret from the past that threatens to upend his promising future and exposes the hypocrisy beneath polite society's surface. (This is an automatically generated summary.)