The Importance of Being Earnest
By Oscar Wilde
- Release Date: 2010-10-04
- Genre: Fiction for Young Adults
Description
" The Importance of Being Earnest" is celebrated not only for the lighthearted ingenuity of its plot, but for its inspired dialogue, rich with scintillating epigrams still savored by all who enjoy artful conversation. From the play's effervescent beginnings in Algernon Moncrieff's London flat to its hilarious denouement in the drawing room of Jack Worthing's country manor in Hertfordshire, this comic masterpiece keeps audiences breathlessly anticipating a new bon mot or a fresh twist of plot moment to moment. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
Reviews
Witty and Playful
3By ktswiderIf “would you still love me if I was a worm?” was a bookWould still read
2By NycchiProbably in its day was quite a romp. But today, I have to constantly think about the time frame and the “theater laughs” to have any appreciationThis is a great book
5By KhilenPIn school we have been reading the beginning of plays like Shakespeare and what not. Then we read this and I read the beginning and liked it. So I finished reading it on Apple Books.Funny
5By whaway and alahI have read it at least three times. And it is funny every time.One for the ages
5By MacMan9876A witty and completely enjoyable read.Makes no sense
1By hey how afe yiuOComical
5By JANUARYIS BETTER THANFEBThis has got to be the funniest classic I’ve read before Twain 😂😂Just great writing and the dialogue is alive with humor and wit and real people foibles.
5By Jonny5328954See aboveStrange but entertaining
4By CignoNeroStrange to read a book in script form but it does lend to visualising the scene. Funny old time humour and quick storyWitty and “Wilde”
5By adpantanoI never read any of Wilde’s works until this one. Delightful and full of hidden sarcasm. Need to read again and again to derive all of his hidden critiques of late 19th century society and Victorian age
