The Importance of Being Earnest

Name: The Importance of Being Earnest
Author: Oscar Wilde
ISBN: 9781909175082

Author: Oscar Wilde
Series: Plays by Oscar Wilde
Language: English
Length: 92 pages
ISBN: 9781909175082
Published: 22 June 2012
Imprint: Sovereign

Victorian England
comic play
alternate identity
escapism
romance
misunderstandings
mistaken identity
truth
social conventions
manners

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The Importance of Being Earnest is a comic play written by Oscar Wilde. Set in Victorian England, it follows the antics of two young men, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, who have created alternate identities for themselves in order to escape the constraints of their mundane lives. The Importance of Being Earnest is a witty and charming play that pokes fun at the social conventions and mannerisms of Victorian England, while also exploring themes of love, identity, and the pursuit of happiness. With its clever dialogue and timeless humor, it remains one of Wilde's most popular works to this day.

Author

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was born in Dublin, took a double first at Magdalen College, Oxford, and made conversation a form of literature. The Picture of Dorian Gray is the one novel — beauty, bargain, and a portrait that keeps the score. The Importance of Being Earnest is the comedy in which nothing is earnest except the jokes. Prison and exile followed the trials. Style was an ethic. Scandal became a second plot.

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Ebook · English · Adelphi Press9781787245907