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Title: The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde ISBN: 0-486-26478-5 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 July, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $1.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (48 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Class Act!! Hilarious!!!
Comment: Oscar Wilde here excels in wit. Its funnier that any piece ever written, or maybe funnier than anything I have ever encountered. The play is very interesting comedy of errors, full of hilarious suspense, and by the end, when everything falls into place, one happily bows to the Importance of being earnest. The dialogue is full of anecdotes worth citing, and trust me you would return to read this play more than once.
Some examples to give you the flavor:
ALGERNON The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!
or this dialogue:
JACK Well, yes, I must admit I smoke.
LADY BRACKNELL I am glad to hear it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind. There are far too many idle men in London as it is. How old are you?
JACK Twenty-nine.
LADY BRACKNELL A very good age to be married at. I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing. Which do you know?
JACK [After some hesitation.] I know nothing, Lady Bracknell.
LADY BRACKNELL I am pleased to hear it. I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square. What is your income?
or maybe this one:
JACK I have lost both my parents.
LADY BRACKNELL To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
or try this:)
JACK Well, will you go if I change my clothes?
ALGERNON Yes, if you are not too long. I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.
JACK Well, at any rate, that is better than being always over- dressed as you are.
ALGERNON If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.
Rating: 5
Summary: Hilarious!
Comment: Witty, sarcastic, laugh out loud in your chair reading. I loved it!!!!
Rating: 5
Summary: Witty..
Comment: This sparkles with wit that belongs only to Oscar Wilde. The sarcasm is delicious and the twists very intriguing. At first I was highly confused by it but midway, I found my bearings. Great read.
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Title: An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde ISBN: 048641423X Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 05 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde ISBN: 0375751513 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw ISBN: 0486282228 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 20 October, 1994 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett ISBN: 0802130348 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: August, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad ISBN: 0486264645 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 July, 1990 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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