The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

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Published: 1 December 2004
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Filled with wit and wisdom, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays is both a respected and studied collection of literature as well as an audience favorite.

Oscar Wilde created his final and most lasting play, comic masterpieces of all time, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, in 1895. Considered one of the greatest THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST is a farce, playing with love, religion, and truth as it tells the tale of two men. Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, who bend the truth in order to add excitement to their lives. Jack invents an imaginary brother, Ernest, whom he uses as an excuse to escape from his dull country home and gallavant in town. Meanwhile, Algernon follows Jack's scam, but his imaginary friend, Bumbury, provides a convenient method of adventuring in the country. However, their deceptions eventually cross paths, resulting in a series of crises that threaten to spoil their romantic pursuits. Hailed as the first modern comedy in England, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST is Wilde's most famous work. This collection also features two other plays that Wilde penned earlier in his career, LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN and AN IDEAL HUSBAND, that also display his ability to convey warmth and wit through his hilarious characters and their outlandish situations.

Published: 1 December 2004
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H. G. Wells

A Short History of the World

The War of the Worlds

H.G. Wells

The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton

The Custom of the Country

The Natural History of Selborne

The Complete Short Fiction

Oscar Wilde

De Profundis And Other Prison Writings

Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

Oscar Wilde

The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose

Oscar Wilde

Writings From Ancient Egypt

Toby Wilkinson

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Mary Wollstonecraft

Night and Day

Virginia Woolf

The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry

Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann

Translated by Peter Wortsman

Conversations of Socrates

Xenophon

Hiero The Tyrant And Other Treatises

Xenophon

A History of My Times

Xenophon

The Persian Expedition

Xenophon

The Story of the Stone

Cao Xueqin

The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China

Lu Xun

Yevgeny Zamyatin

The Book of Master Mo

Mo Zi

Au Bonheur des Dames (The Ladies' Delight)

About the author

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin on 16 October 1854. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin and Magdalen College, Oxford. He then lived in London and married Constance Lloyd in 1884. Wilde was a leader of the Aesthetic Movement. He became famous because of the immense success of his plays such as Lady Windemere's Fan and The Importance of Being Earnest. His only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, was first published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890 but was revised in 1891 after moralistic negative reviews.

After a public scandal involving Wilde's relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas, he was sentenced to two years' hard labour in Reading Gaol for 'gross indecency'. His poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol was published anonymously in 1898. Wilde never lived in England again and died at the age of forty-six in Paris on 30 November 1900. He is buried in Père Lachaise cemetery where admirers often leave the lipstick marks of kisses on his tomb.