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Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780225659023
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (59 download)
Download or read book The Importance of Being Earnest written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : First Avenue Editions ™
ISBN 13 : 1467756547
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (677 download)
Download or read book The Importance of Being Earnest written by Oscar Wilde and published by First Avenue Editions ™. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Worthing gets antsy living at his country estate. As an excuse, he spins tales of his rowdy brother Earnest living in London. When Jack rushes to the city to confront his "brother," he's free to become Earnest and live a different lifestyle. In London, his best friend, Algernon, begins to suspect Earnest is leading a double life. Earnest confesses that his real name is Jack and admits the ruse has become tricky as two women have become enchanted with the idea of marrying Earnest. On a whim, Algernon also pretends to be Earnest and encounters the two women as they meet at the estate. With two Earnests who aren't really earnest and two women in love with little more than a name, this play is a classic comedy of errors. This is an unabridged version of Oscar Wilde's English play, first published in 1899.
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Importance of Being Earnest written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subtitled “A Trivial Comedy for Serious People,” Wilde’s play is a brilliantly satirical comedy of manners, sending up the absurdity of Victorian social mores and cleverly critiquing the conventions of love and marriage. The tale of two gentlemen who adopt fictitious identities in order to woo the objects of their affections is Wilde’s most beloved work, considered to be one of the wittiest plays ever written in English. The glowing critical reception in London on opening night at the St. James Theater in 1895 marked the high point of Wilde’s career as a writer.
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (982 download)
Download or read book The Importance of Being Earnest written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oscar Wilde's madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers entanglements still delights readers more than a century after its 1895 publication and premiere performance. The rapid-fire wit and eccentric characters of The Importance of Being Earnest have made it a mainstay of the high school curriculum for decades.Cecily Cardew and Gwendolen Fairfax are both in love with the same mythical suitor. Jack Worthing has wooed Gwendolen as Ernest while Algernon has also posed as Ernest to win the heart of Jack's ward, Cecily. When all four arrive at Jack's country home on the same weekend the "rivals" to fight for Ernest's undivided attention and the "Ernests" to claim their beloveds pandemonium breaks loose. Only a senile nursemaid and an old, discarded hand-bag can save the day!This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and reader's notes to help the modern reader appreciate Wilde's wry wit and elaborate plot twists.
Author : Elizabeth Enright
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152022723
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (227 download)
Download or read book Gone-Away Lake written by Elizabeth Enright and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portia and her cousin Julian discover adventure in a hidden colony of forgotten summer houses on the shores of a swampy lake.
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 9780435233037
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)
Download or read book The Importance of Being Earnest written by Oscar Wilde and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 1994 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theatre program.
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 : SF Classic
ISBN 13 : 9781774378359
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (783 download)
Download or read book The Picture of Dorian Gray (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) written by Oscar Wilde and published by SF Classic. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dorian Gray is the subject of a full-length portrait in oil by Basil Hallward, an artist who is impressed and infatuated by Dorian's beauty; he believes that Dorian's beauty is responsible for the new mode in his art as a painter. Through Basil, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, and he soon is enthralled by the aristocrat's hedonistic worldview: that beauty and sensual fulfilment are the only things worth pursuing in life. Newly understanding that his beauty will fade, Dorian expresses the desire to sell his soul, to ensure that the picture, rather than he, will age and fade. The wish is granted, and Dorian pursues a libertine life of varied and amoral experiences; all the while his portrait ages and records every soul-corrupting sin. This case laminate collector's edition includes a Victorian inspired dust-jacket.
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (564 download)
Download or read book The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde "The Annotated Edition" written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar WildeThis 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 : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Importance Of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde written by Oscar Wilde and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oscar Wilde's madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers entanglements still delights readers more than a century after its 1895 publication and premiere performance. The rapid-fire wit and eccentric characters of The Importance of Being Earnest have made it a mainstay of the high school curriculum for decades. Cecily Cardew and Gwendolen Fairfax are both in love with the same mythical suitor. Jack Worthing has wooed Gwendolen as Ernest while Algernon has also posed as Ernest to win the heart of Jack's ward, Cecily. When all four arrive at Jack's country home on the same weekend the "rivals" to fight for Ernest's undivided attention and the "Ernests" to claim their beloveds pandemonium breaks loose. Only a senile nursemaid and an old, discarded hand-bag can save the day! This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and reader's notes to help the modern reader appreciate Wilde's wry wit and elaborate plot twists.
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781517773113
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (731 download)
Download or read book The Importance of Being Earnest written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-11 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A farce, one of the best ever written, cleverly constructed and delightfully amusing. There is only the slightest attempt at the sketching of character, while most of the personages are at best but caricatures; the Wilde's skill is brought to bear chiefly upon the situations and the lines. It so happens that this farce contains more clever lines, puns, epigrams, and deft repartees than any other of modern times, but these are after all accessory. A farce may be written without these additions--it might well be pure pantomime. Wilde has thrown them in for full measure.
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781978065246
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (652 download)
Download or read book The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde (with Illustrated) written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-08 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde (with illustrated) Oscar Wilde's madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers entanglements still delights readers more than a century after its 1895 publication and premiere performance. The rapid-fire wit and eccentric characters of The Importance of Being Earnest have made it a mainstay of the high school curriculum for decades.Cecily Cardew and Gwendolen Fairfax are both in love with the same mythical suitor. Jack Worthing has wooed Gewndolen as Ernest while Algernon has also posed as Ernest to win the heart of Jack's ward, Cecily. When all four arrive at Jack's country home on the same weekend the "rivals" to fight for Ernest s undivided attention and the "Ernests" to claim their beloveds pandemonium breaks loose. Only a senile nursemaid and an old, discarded hand-bag can save the day!
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (398 download)
Download or read book The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde The New Annotated Edition written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-24 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 :
ISBN 13 : 9780674048980
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (489 download)
Download or read book The Annotated Importance of Being Earnest written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Annotated Importance of Being Earnest provides facing-page commentary on Oscar Wilde's greatest play. Editor Nicholas Frankel highlights the play's relation to the author's homosexuality and to the climate of sexual repression that led to Wilde's imprisonment just months after the play's London opening in 1895.
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781540820365
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Importance of Being Earnest written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-09 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why buy our paperbacks? Standard Font size of 10 for all books High Quality Paper Fulfilled by Amazon Expedited shipping 30 Days Money Back Guarantee BEWARE of Low-quality sellers Don't buy cheap paperbacks just to save a few dollars. Most of them use low-quality papers & binding. Their pages fall off easily. Some of them even use very small font size of 6 or less to increase their profit margin. It makes their books completely unreadable. How is this book unique? Unabridged (100% Original content) Font adjustments & biography included Illustrated About The Importance Of Being Earnest by 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 person� 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. Contemporary reviews all praised the play's humour, though some were cautious about its explicit lack of social messages, while others foresaw the modern consensus that it was the culmination of Wilde's artistic career so far. 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. Soon afterwards their feud came to a climax in court, where Wilde's homosexual double life was revealed to the Victorian public and he was eventually sentenced to imprisonment. His notoriety caused the play, despite its early success, to be closed after 86 performances. After his release, 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.
Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Learning
ISBN 13 : 1438139985
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2013 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a collection of critical essays on Wilde's comedic play "The Importance of Being Earnest" arranged in chronological order of publication.
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Oxford University
ISBN 13 : 9780194228565
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (285 download)
Download or read book The Importance of Being Earnest written by Oscar Wilde and published by Oxford University. This book was released on 2000 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oscar Wilde and the young highly talented comic artist Tom Bouden, what an incredible and fantastic mixture! The story of Earnest retold in modern American style, illustrated by a great comic artist.
