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A Woman of No Importance

by Oscar Wilde

First published
1893
Reading level
Plain English
Price
Free

About the book

"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.

  • Man-woman relationships
  • English drama

Updated September 2026. Public domain in the USA. Text and summary from Project Gutenberg eBook #854. A Woman of No Importance on Wikipedia.

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