The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest
ISBN-10
0140621725
ISBN-13
9780140621723
Series
The Importance of Being Earnest
Category
England
Pages
66
Language
English
Published
1994
Publisher
Penguin Books, Limited (UK)
Author
Oscar Wilde

Description

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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