A 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:first edition of 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.

• Oscar Wilde (Irish).
• The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People.
• London: Leonard Smithers & Co., 1899.
• Small quarto.
• Number 311 of 1000 copies.
• Bound in the publisher's lilac cloth, gilt design by Charles Shannon, mostly unopened.

One of 1000 copies of Wilde's most celebrated play. First performed on 14th February 1895, The Importance of Being Earnest marked the zenith of Wilde's career, and followed on from the success of Lady Windermere's Fan, An Ideal Husband, and A Woman of No Importance. However, as his professional star rose, so did the escalation of his feud with Lord Queensberry, father of his lover Lord Alfred Douglas (Bosie). Only four days after the opening of the play Lord Queensberry left his card at Wilde's club, scrawled with the words 'For Oscar Wilde posing somdomite' [sic]. Wilde, despite the advice oওf his friends but egged on by his lover, sued Queensberry for libel, and the rest his history. On 25th May, in the ensuing trial brought by the Crown, Wil🏅de was convicted of gross indecency and sentenced to two years in prison with hard labor.