The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde – paperback cover

The Importance of Being Earnest

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The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest

$5.84 $16.07
FormatPaperback

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde is a paperback for readers who enjoy fiction with real texture to it. Runs to about 120 pages, so it's an easy book to lose an evening to, and a nice one to give.

What it's about

What happens when two women fall in love with ‘Ernest’ and Ernest doesn’t exist? the Importance of Being Earnest! Secret identities, alter-egos, invented romances and someone named Ernest.. While Jack Worthing leads a double life—representing himself as Ernest—little does he know what he is setting himself for. Things get interesting or worse, when his friend, Algernon Moncrieff, also impersonates Ernest, all in the pursuit of winning his lady love! What ensues is a satire that will tickle you, scintillate you and leave you in awe, admiring Wilde’s deftness and capacity to produce powerful social comedies. A play that has thrilled readers for over a century, the Importance of Being Earnest, is a brilliant experiment in Victorian melodrama, replete with its farcical conventions and pinching satire. Subtitled a Trivial Comedy for Serious People, this amusing, eccentric farce brings for you as one of its paradoxes the impossibility of being either earnest or moral while claiming to be so.

Book details

  • Author: Oscar Wilde
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 120
  • ISBN: 9788175992856
  • Published: 2015-04-01
  • Dimensions: 19.5 x 13.0 x 0.3 cm
  • Category: Fiction

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Is The Importance of Being Earnest available in paperback or hardcover?

This listing is for the paperback edition of The Importance of Being Earnest.

What language is this edition in?

This edition is in English.

Who wrote The Importance of Being Earnest?

The Importance of Being Earnest is written by Oscar Wilde.

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