NMLP P-037066 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde · Leonard Smithers and Co. · 1899

The title page carries no author name; at Wilde's own instruction (his letter of 1 December 1898, 'You must add by the author of Lady Windermere's Fan') it reads 'A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, by the Author of "Lady Windermere's Fan"' — his name suppressed after his imprisonment

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-037066 for "The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-037066, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).