NMLP P-037069 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19

The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde · Leonard Smithers and Co. · 1899

No period book-club edition. Any copy naming Oscar Wilde on the title page is a later edition (for example the Methuen collected-works printings from about 1908 onward), not the 1899 Smithers first, whose title page substitutes 'by the Author of "Lady Windermere's Fan".'

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-037069 for "The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-037069, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).