Description
The Importance of Being Earnest is Oscar Wilde’s most celebrated and enduring comedy, a brilliant satire of Victorian society that remains hilariously relevant today. The play follows Algernon Moncrieff and Jack Worthing, two gentlemen who adopt fictional identities to free themselves from the constraints of respectability and social expectation.
Through a series of mistaken identities, romantic entanglements, and perfectly timed revelations, Wilde crafts a comedy that delights with its sparkling dialogue and clever inversions of social norms. The characters navigate love, family honor, and personal authenticity with wit and charm, while the playwright takes aim at the pretensions and hypocrisies of the upper classes.
With memorable quotes that have become part of popular culture and characters that leap off the page, this Cuppa Classics edition presents Wilde’s masterpiece in an accessible format for modern readers.
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