Wilde, Oscar. Here is Oscar Wilde's most brilliant tour de force, a witty and buoyant comedy of manners that has delighted millions in countless productions since its first performance in London's St. James' Theatre on February 14, 1895. The Importance of Being Earnest is celebrated not only for the lighthearted ingenuity of its plot, but...
LeFanu, Joseph. Sherdan. Perhaps no other writer in the history of English fiction co completely mastered the technique of creating an atmosphere of unrelieved suspense and terror as Joseph Sheridan LeFanu (1814-1873).Death prowls the 400-odd pages of this book - in Maud Ruthyn, her father Austin, the grotesque Madame de la Rougierre, in the...