Lady Windermere's Fan
By Oscar Wilde
Cover: Ball on Shipboard (c. 1874), oil on canvas by James Tissot (1836-1902) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1902)
Lady Windermere learns that her husband has been paying money to a woman with a past, and resolves to confront the woman at her birthday ball. Mrs Erlynne, who is not what she seems, steps in to save the marriage for a reason Wilde keeps back until the last act.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.