The Importance of Being Earnest

by OscarWilde (Author)

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  Paperback
  2007

  $4.18

  Oscar Wilde's brilliant play makes fun of the English upper classes with light-hearted satire and dazzling humour. It is 1890's England and two young gentlemen are being somewhat limited with the truth. To inject some excitement into their lives, Mr Worthing invents a brother, Earnest, as an excuse to leave his dull country life behind him to pursue the object of his desire, the ravishing Gwendolyn. While across town Algernon Montecrieff decides to take the name Earnest, when visiting Worthing's young ward Cecily. The real fun and confusion begins when the two end up together and their deceptions are in danger of being revealed.

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  Paperback
  1992

  $3.25

  This edition of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest locates his writings within the broader cultural concerns of his day. Examining Wilde's aestheticism, his sexual politics, his socialist ideas, and his allegiances to Irish nationalism, this edition looks closely at the ways in which Wilde's best-known comedy managed both to challenge the ruling order and enjoy considerable contemporary success. By comparing Wilde's provocative views on art and life in his major essay The Critic as Artist with the social critique performed in The Importance of Being Earnest , this volume reveals the serious-minded nature of Wilde's pyrotechnic wit, and brings together a selection of his most famous aphorisms together with The Soul of Man Under Socialism . This book should be of interest to undergraduates and academics of literature and drama.

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  Hardcover
  1994

  $3.25

  The Heinemann Plays series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in durable classroom editions. Many have large casts and an equal mix of boy and girl parts. This is a new edition of Oscar Wilde's classic comedy of manners.

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  Paperback
  1999

  $15.08

  A collection of anthologies, resource and reference books, including titles from Oscar Wilde, Mary Shelley, Alex Madina, Jo Phillips and Adrian Barlow.