The Importance of Being Earnest

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The Importance of Being Earnest
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Poetry & Plays

The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde
Edition year 1960
Binding Silk
Illustrator Cecil Beaton
Weight 1 Kg
Pages 80
Dimensions 25 × 19 cm

Edition details

The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde. 6 leaves of colour lithographic plates by Cecil Beaton. Grey endleaves printed with pink design. Bound in dark green silk. Pink slipcase. 80pp. 25x19cm.

About the book

Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest is a comedy of manners built around mistaken identities, invented names and romantic complications. Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff each use deception to escape social obligations, only to find their schemes colliding when love and family expectations intervene. Wilde uses sparkling dialogue and absurd situations to satirise Victorian respectability, marriage, class and the seriousness with which society treats trivial conventions.

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