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  Importance of Being Earnest (Paperback) By (author) Oscar Wilde

  

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  Short Description for Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde's brilliant play makes fun of the English upper classes with light-hearted satire and dazzling humour. It is 1890's England and two young gentlemen are being somewhat limited with the truth. To inject some excitement into their lives, Mr Worthing invents a brother, Earnest, as an excuse to leave his dull country life behind him.
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  • Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS
  • Published: 28 June 2007
  • Format: Paperback 80 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780140623451 ISBN 10: 0140623450
  • Sales rank: 4,158

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Full description for Importance of Being Earnest

• Oscar Wilde's brilliant play makes fun of the English upper classes with light-hearted satire and dazzling humour. It is 1890's England and two young gentlemen are being somewhat limited with the truth. To inject some excitement into their lives, Mr Worthing invents a brother, Earnest, as an excuse to leave his dull country life behind him to pursue the object of his desire, the ravishing Gwendolyn. While across town Algernon Montecrieff decides to take the name Earnest, when visiting Worthing's young ward Cecily. The real fun and confusion begins when the two end up together and their deceptions are in danger of being revealed.