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Title: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays by Oscar Wilde, Sylvan Barnet ISBN: 0-451-52505-1 Publisher: Signet Book Pub. Date: 01 November, 1988 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Don't judge a book...
Comment: By looking at the cover I didn't think I would like this book : a dirty brown with an Old English illustration. But once I read the first few pages I was hooked. The book is based on Oscar Wilde's play of the same name, one I only vaguely had heard of. Although the story takes place in 19th century England, the humor transcends time. It starts off when one gentleman meets up with another. Questions arise to the identity of the visiting man, named Ernest, which leads to a mini-mystery. The two men banter humorously throughout the book accompanied by the leading ladies and a very accomodating butler. The reason for the title becomes apparent when the name Ernest is the central cause for the hilarity. I absolutely loved this book! It was a quick read and made me laugh out loud. I was surprised that noone else had written a review for it. I was glad I took a chance with something that, on the surface, didn't look very appealing. You won't be disappointed if you did, too.
Rating: 5
Summary: Hip-hip-hooray
Comment: Perhaps it is my unique sense of humor, but I found this book incredibly funny. I wasn't rolling on the floor or anything, but it is funny in an Oscar Wilde way. My personal favorite is The Importance of Being Earnest, although all the others are very good also. Get this book. There are great quotes and good characters.
Rating: 4
Summary: It Is Impotant To Be Earnest
Comment: I had no knowledge of Oscar Wilde and had only seen ten minutes of the movie, The Importance of Being Earnest, as I flipped through the cable channels on my television. However, due to a class that I am enrolled in, not only do I now know who he is but I am blessed to have been introduced to his work.
The Importance of Being Earnest, makes a very humorous yet profound commentary on money, marriage, status and image as it pertains to the aristocracy of that time. It seems that Oscar Wilde utilized this medium of artistic expression to cleverly expose the twisted way that those with wealth perceived themselves and the lengths they would go to the preserve that perception. It has been referred to as a "comedy of manners" because so much of what defined or distinguished the aristocracy from the common man was not necessarily the wealth that they actually had but what men and women did to appear like they had it.
Ernest, who is the main character in the play, has done all of what is necessary to appear as though he comes from wealth. He wears the clothing, keeps the company and talks the talk of the aristocrat. However what he soon finds out is that all of those whom he is trying to impress and fit in with, have more unresolved issues in their closet than he does. I believe Wilde addresses this social paradox with impeccable wit and an amazing sense of human psychology. He not only challenged those who belonged to the aristocracy to examine what they placed value in, but continues to challenge each reader today, that these superficial values might not stand as valuable at all.
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Title: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett ISBN: 0802130348 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Saint Joan: A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue (PENGUIN CLASSICS) by Bernard Shaw, Stanley Weintraub ISBN: 0140437916 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Plays Pleasant: Arms and the Man/Candida/the Man of Destiny/You Never Can Tell (Penguin Classics) by George Bernard Shaw, Dan H. Laurence, W. J. McCormack ISBN: 0140437940 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The School for Scandal and Other Plays by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Michael Cordner ISBN: 0192825674 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Plays Unpleasant: Widowers' Houses/the Philanderer/Mrs Warren's Profession (Bernard Shaw Library) by Bernard Shaw, Dan H. Laurence ISBN: 0140437932 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 02 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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