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Patricia
12-20-2007, 09:09 PM
Oscar Wilde: Vera, or the Nihilists
(1881)
A Drama in a Prologue, and Four Acts

An early melodrama by Oscar Wilde, set in Russia. Unintentionally funny and with strange anachronisms (-- it is set in 1800, yet the characters talk about trains, and about the liberation of the serfs).