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An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde (Hardcover)
An Ideal Husband revolves around a blackmail scheme that forces a married couple to reexamine their moral standards — providing, along the way, a wry commentary on the rarity of politicians who can claim to be ethically pure. A supporting cast of young lovers, society matrons, an overbearing father, and a formidable femme fatale continually exchange sparkling repartee, keeping the play moving at a lively pace. Like most of Wilde’s plays, this scintillating drawing-room comedy is wise, well-constructed, and deeply satisfying. An instant success at its 1895 debut, the play continues to delight audiences over one hundred years later. An Ideal Husband is a must-read for Wilde fans, students of English literature, and anyone delighted by wit, urbanity, and timeless sophistication.
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The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (Hardback)
- Page : 96
- ISBN : 978-9394885639
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 1 cm
What happens when two women fall in love with ?Ernest? and Ernest doesn?t exist? the Importance of Being Earnest!Secret identities, alter-egos, invented romances and someone named Ernest. . While Jack Worthing leads a double life?representing himself as Ernest?little does he know what he is setting himself for. Things get interesting or worse, when his friend, Algernon Moncrieff, also impersonates Ernest, all in the pursuit of winning his lady love!What ensues is a satire that will tickle you, scintillate you and leave you in awe, admiring Wilde?s deftness and capacity to produce powerful social comedies. A play that has thrilled readers for over a century, the Importance of Being Earnest, is a brilliant experiment in Victorian melodrama, replete with its farcical conventions and pinching satire. Subtitled a Trivial Comedy for Serious People, this amusing, eccentric farce brings for you as one of its paradoxes the impossibility of being either earnest or moral while claiming to be so.
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