
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.











