The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest

By Oscar Wilde

  • Release Date: 2010-10-04
  • Genre: Fiction for Young Adults
Score: 4.5
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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

    3
    By ktswider
    If “would you still love me if I was a worm?” was a book

  • Would still read

    2
    By Nycchi
    Probably 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 appreciation

  • This is a great book

    5
    By KhilenP
    In 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

    5
    By whaway and alah
    I have read it at least three times. And it is funny every time.

  • One for the ages

    5
    By MacMan9876
    A witty and completely enjoyable read.

  • Makes no sense

    1
    By hey how afe yiu
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  • Comical

    5
    By JANUARYIS BETTER THANFEB
    This 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.

    5
    By Jonny5328954
    See above

  • Strange but entertaining

    4
    By CignoNero
    Strange to read a book in script form but it does lend to visualising the scene. Funny old time humour and quick story

  • Witty and “Wilde”

    5
    By adpantano
    I 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

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