A Woman of No Importance
By Oscar Wilde
Cover: Too Early (1873), oil on canvas by James Tissot (1836-1902) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1902)
At a country house party, the young Gerald Arbuthnot is offered a post by the cynical Lord Illingworth, who turns out to be tied to a secret in the past of Gerald's mother. Society epigrams give way to a moral reckoning.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.