Description
Wilde's play weaponizes absurdity against Victorian propriety, using overlapping cases of mistaken identity and invented personas to skewer everything from earnestness itself to the arbitrary rules governing courtship and class. The dialogue crackles with aphorisms that feel simultaneously trivial and devastating, making comedy itself a form of social subversion.
About this book
The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is an ebook by Oscar Wilde (1854–1900). This edition runs to roughly 69 pages, about 85 minutes of reading at a typical pace.
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About the Author
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) has 13 books in the BigBookHub catalogue: An Ideal Husband, De Profundis, Intentions, Lady Windermere's Fan, Miscellanies and 8 more. These titles date from between 1887 and 1891.
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