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A Woman of No Importance

by Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

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  • 5 chapters
  • Reading level: 7th grade

"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.

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  • Man-woman relationships
  • English drama

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First Act

[SIR JOHN and LADY CAROLINE PONTEFRACT, MISS WORSLEY, on chairs under large yew tree.]

LADY CAROLINE. I believe this is the first English country house you have stayed at, Miss Worsley?

HESTER. Yes, Lady Caroline.

LADY CAROLINE. You have no country houses, I am told, in America?

HESTER. We have not many.

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Contents

  1. Front Matter
  2. First Act
  3. Second Act
  4. Third Act
  5. Fourth Act

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This free edition of A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #854, released 1997-03-01. It is in the public domain in the United States, so you can read it here in full at no cost, on any phone, tablet or computer. Genre: Plays/Films/Dramas, British Literature.

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