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Author : Oscar Wilde
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Author : Oscar Wilde
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Total Pages : 258 pages
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Download or read book The Importance of Being Earnest written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Oscar Fingall O'F.W. Wilde
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Download or read book The importance of being earnest, a trivial comedy for serious people by the author of Lady Windermere's fan written by Oscar Fingall O'F.W. Wilde and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3732658554
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (326 download)
Download or read book The Importance of Being Earnest - A Trivial Comedy for Serious People written by Oscar Wilde and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Importance of Being Earnest - A Trivial Comedy for Serious People by Oscar Wilde
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101560150
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays written by Oscar Wilde and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A universal favorite, The Importance of Being Earnest displays Oscar Wilde’s wit and theatrical genius at their brilliant best. Subtitled “A Trivial Comedy for Serious People,” this hilarious attack on Victorian manners and morals turns a pompous world on its head, lets duplicity lead to happiness, and makes riposte the highest form of art. Written, according to Wilde, “by a butterfly for butterflies,” it is a dazzling masterpiece of comic entertainment. Although it was originally written in four acts, The Importance of Being Earnest is usually performed in a three-act version. This authoritative edition features an appendix that restores valuable lines that appeared in the original. Also included in this special collection are Wilde’s first comedy success, Lady Windermere’s Fan, and his richly sensual melodrama, Salomé, which he called “that terrible coloured little tragedy I once in some strange mood wrote”—and which shocked and enraged the censors of his time. Includes an Introduction by Sylvan Barnet and an Afterword by Elise Bruhl and Michael Gamer
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 3986472800
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Importance of Being Earnest written by Oscar Wilde and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae to escape burdensome social obligations.
Author : Lady Windermere's Fan
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9780469842939
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (429 download)
Download or read book The Importance of Being Earnest a Trivial Comedy for Serious People written by Lady Windermere's Fan and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408145162
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)
Download or read book The Importance of Being Earnest written by Oscar Wilde and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-03-24 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A Trivial Comedy for Serious People': its subtitle is the best summary of a play that is the theatrical equivalent of a butterfly. The verbal brilliance of its highly self-conscious characters hides deep anxieties about social and personal identity: Jack Worthing, found as a baby in a handbag at Victoria Station and named after a railway ticket, is prepared to be re-christened to obtain the Christian name - Earnest - his beloved Gwendolen requires in a husband; he then has to confront the stigma of being the illegitimate child of a servant, before fortune, and a benevolent dramatist, reveal his true and entirely respectable identity. This is the only one-volume edition of the play to include an appendix with earlier versions and additional scenes that allow an appreciation of Wilde's creative process.
Author : Oscar Wilde
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Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (855 download)
Download or read book The Importance of Being Earnest A Trivial Comedy for Serious People written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-12 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious person to escape burdensome social obligations.
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Nabu Press
ISBN 13 : 9781293832165
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Importance of Being Earnest written by Oscar Wilde and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-03-13 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Author : John Batterson Stetson (Jr.)
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Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Oscar Wilde Collection of John B. Stetson, Jr written by John Batterson Stetson (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
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Total Pages : 213 pages
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Download or read book "Greatest Works of Oscar Wilde - Part -1(A Woman of No Importance + The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People + Lady Windermere's Fan)" written by Oscar Wilde and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2022-07-22 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Combo Collection (Set of 3 Books) includes All-time Bestseller Books. This anthology contains: A Woman of No Importance The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People Lady Windermere's Fan
Author : Oscar Wilde
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Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (324 download)
Download or read book The Importance of Being Earnest a Trivial Comedy for Serious People written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Importance of Being Earnest A Trivial Comedy for Serious People Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae to escape burdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play's major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage, and the resulting satire of Victorian ways. Some contemporary reviews praised the play's humour and the culmination of Wilde's artistic career, while others were cautious about its lack of social messages. Its high farce and witty dialogue have helped make The Importance of Being Earnest Wilde's most enduringly popular play. The successful opening night marked the climax of Wilde's career but also heralded his downfall. The Marquess of Queensberry, whose son Lord Alfred Douglas was Wilde's lover, planned to present the writer with a bouquet of rotten vegetables and disrupt the show. Wilde was tipped off and Queensberry was refused admission. Their feud came to a climax in court, where Wilde's homosexuality was revealed to the Victorian public and he was sentenced to imprisonment. Despite the play's early success, Wilde's notoriety caused the play to be closed after 86 performances. After his release from prison, he published the play from exile in Paris, but he wrote no further comic or dramatic work. The Importance of Being Earnest has been revived many times since its premiere. It has been adapted for the cinema on three occasions. In The Importance of Being Earnest (1952), Dame Edith Evans reprised her celebrated interpretation of Lady Bracknell; The Importance of Being Earnest (1992) by Kurt Baker used an all-black cast; and Oliver Parker's The Importance of Being Earnest (2002) incorporated some of Wilde's original material cut during the preparation of the original stage production. After the success of Wilde's plays Lady Windermere's Fan and A Woman of No Importance, Wilde's producers urged him to write further plays. In July 1894, he mooted his idea for The Importance of Being Earnest to George Alexander, the actor-manager of the St James's Theatre. Wilde spent the summer with his family at Worthing, where he wrote the play quickly in August. His fame now at its peak, he used the working title Lady Lancing to avoid preemptive speculation of its content. Many names and ideas in the play were borrowed from people or places the author had known; Lady Queensberry, Lord Alfred Douglas's mother, for example, lived at Bracknell.
Author : Oscar Wilde
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Total Pages : 124 pages
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Download or read book The Importance of Being Earnest (Annotated) A Trivial Comedy For Serious People written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lighthearted play tells the farcical tale of Jack Worthing and Algernon Montcrieff-two men who falsely claim to be named Ernest when they fall in love with two women whose affections are illogically but irrevocably tied to the name.The Importance of Being Earnest was popular upon its debut in 1895. It was not until the twentieth century that Wilde's work was once again recognized both for its literary worth and comedic genius, and subsequently The Importance of Being Earnest has been adapted many times for film and theatre, most recently in the 2002 film starring Colin Firth, Rupert Everett, Reese Witherspoon, and Dame Judy Dench.
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Independently Published
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Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (851 download)
Download or read book The Importance of Being Earnest written by Oscar Wilde and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-09-11 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae to escape burdensome social obligations.
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ISBN 13 : 9781294993612
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (936 download)
Download or read book The Importance of Being Earnest written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Zimmerhoff
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ISBN 13 : 9781973827498
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (274 download)
Download or read book The Importance of Being Earnest written by James Zimmerhoff and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-26 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Persons in the PlayJohn Worthing, J.P.Algernon MoncrieffRev. Canon Chasuble, D.D.Merriman, ButlerLane, ManservantLady BracknellHon. Gwendolen FairfaxCecily CardewMiss Prism, GovernessThe Scenes of the PlayACT I. Algernon Moncrieff''s Flat in Half-Moon Street, W.ACT II. The Garden at the Manor House, Woolton.ACT III. Drawing-Room at the Manor House, Woolton.TIME: The Present.London: St. James''s TheatreLessee and Manager: Mr. George AlexanderJohn Worthing, J.P.: Mr. George Alexander.Algernon Moncrieff: Mr. Allen Aynesworth.Rev. Canon Chasuble, D.D.: Mr. H. H. Vincent.Merriman: Mr. Frank Dyall.Lane: Mr. F. Kinsey Peile.Lady Bracknell: Miss Rose Leclercq.Hon. Gwendolen Fairfax: Miss Irene Vanbrugh.Cecily Cardew: Miss Evelyn Millard.Miss Prism: Mrs. George Canninge.First ActSceneMorning-room in Algernon''s flat in Half-Moon Street. The room is luxuriously and artistically furnished. The sound of a piano is heard in the adjoining room.[Lane is arranging afternoon tea on the table, and after the music has ceased, Algernon enters.]Algernon. Did you hear what I was playing, Lane?Lane. I didn''t think it polite to listen, sir.Algernon. I''m sorry for that, for your sake. I don''t play accurately-any one can play accurately-but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.Lane. Yes, sir.Algernon. And, speaking of the science of Life, have you got the cucumber sandwiches cut for Lady Bracknell?Lane. Yes, sir. [Hands them on a salver.]Algernon. [Inspects them, takes two, and sits down on the sofa.] Oh! ... by the way, Lane, I see from your book that on Thursday night, when Lord Shoreman and Mr. Worthing were dining with me, eight bottles of champagne are entered as having been consumed.Lane. Yes, sir; eight bottles and a pint.Algernon. Why is it that at a bachelor''s establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for information.Lane. I attribute it to the superior quality of the wine, sir. I have often observed that in married households the champagne is rarely of a first-rate brand.Algernon. Good heavens! Is marriage so demoralising as that?Lane. I believe it is a very pleasant state, sir. I have had very little experience of it myself up to the present. I have only been married once. That was in consequence of a misunderstanding between myself and a young person.Algernon. [Languidly.] I don''t know that I am much interested in your family life, Lane.Lane. No, sir; it is not a very interesting subject. I never think of it myself.Algernon. Very natural, I am sure. That will do, Lane, thank you.Lane. Thank you, sir. [Lane goes out.]Algernon. Lane''s views on marriage seem somewhat lax. Really, if the lower orders don''t set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them? They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral responsibility.[Enter Lane.]Lane. Mr. Ernest Worthing.[Enter Jack.][Lane goes out.]Algernon. How are you, my dear Ernest? What brings you up to town?Jack. Oh, pleasure, pleasure! What else should bring one anywhere? Eating as usual, I see, Algy!Algernon. [Stiffly.] I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o''clock. Where have you been since last Thursday?Jack. [Sitting down on the sofa.] In the country.Algernon. What on earth do you do there?Jack. [Pulling off his gloves.] When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.Algernon. And who are the people you amuse?Jack. [Airily.] Oh, neighbours, neighbours.Algernon. Got nice neighbours in your part of Shropshire?Jack. Perfectly horrid! Never speak to one of them.
