The Importance of Being Earnest (Revised Edition)

by Oscar Wilde

Overview

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.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940162148715
Publisher:	Halcyon Press Ltd.
Publication date:	05/18/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	825 KB

About the Author

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish writer, poet, and popular playwright.

Date of Birth:

October 16, 1854

Date of Death:

November 30, 1900

Place of Birth:

Dublin, Ireland

Place of Death:

Paris, France

Education:

The Royal School in Enniskillen, Dublin, 1864; Trinity College, Dublin, 1871; Magdalen College, Oxford, England, 1874