The Comedies : Lady Windermere's Fan, an Ideal Husband, a Woman of No Importance, and the Importance of Being Earnest 9781504055918

Experience the wit of Wilde in these four delightfully satiric plays--including his masterpiece, The Importance of Being

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The Comedies : Lady Windermere's Fan, an Ideal Husband, a Woman of No Importance, and the Importance of Being Earnest
9781504055918

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Witty and buoyant comedy of manners is brilliantly plotted from its effervescent first act to its hilarious denouement,

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The Importance of Being Rational systematically defends a novel reasons-based account of rationality. The book's ce

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When E. B. White said "analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog; few people are interested and the frog dies,"

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"What is Islam? How do we grasp a human and historical phenomenon characterized by such variety and contradiction?

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"A book that is certain to provoke debate and significantly alter our understanding of Islam, [this work] reveals h

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Ezra Schabas provides not only the first detailed biography of MacMillan, but also a frank, richly detailed and handsome

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"The never-before-told story of one woman's heroism that changed the course of the Second World War In 1942, t

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"The never-before-told story of one woman's heroism that changed the course of the Second World War In 1942, t

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The Enduring Importance of Leo Strauss takes on the crucial task of separating what is truly important in the work of Le

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