Oscar Wilde
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: 150+ Titles in One Edition
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2017 OK Publishing
ISBN 978-80-272-3719-7
Table of Contents
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
THE REVISED 20 CHAPTER VERSION
THE HAPPY PRINCE AND OTHER TALES
LORD ARTHUR SAVILE’S CRIME AND OTHER STORIES
The Plays
VERA
PERSONS IN THE PROLOGUE.
Peter Sabouroff (an Innkeeper).
Vera Sabouroff (his Daughter).
Michael (a Peasant).
Colonel Kotemkin.
Scene , Russia. Time, 1795.
PERSONS IN THE PLAY.
Ivan the Czar.
Prince Paul Maraloffski (Prime Minister of Russia).
Prince Petrovitch.
Count Rouvaloff.
Marquis de Poivrard.
Baron Raff.
General Kotemkin.
A Page.
Nihilists.
Peter Tchernavitch , President of the Nihilists.
Michael.
Alexis Ivanacievitch, known as a Student of Medicine.
Professor Marfa.
Vera Sabouroff.
Soldiers, Conspirators, &c.
Scene, Moscow. Time, 1800.
PROLOGUE.
Scene. — A Russian Inn.
Large door opening on snowy landscape at back of stage.
Peter Sabouroff and Michael.
Peter (warming his hands at a stove). Has Vera not come back yet, Michael?
Mich. No, Father Peter, not yet; ‘tis a good three miles to the post office, and she has to milk the cows besides, and that dun one is a rare plaguey creature for a wench to handle.
Peter. Why didn’t you go with her, you young fool? she’ll never love you unless you are always at her heels; women like to be bothered.
Mich. She says I bother her too much already, Father Peter, and I fear she’ll never love me after all.
Peter. Tut, tut, boy, why shouldn’t she? you’re young and wouldn’t be ill-favoured either, had God or thy mother given thee another face. Aren’t you one of