by Oscar Wilde · international pocket Library Corporation · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780003701975
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«The Importance of Being Earnest» is Oscar Wilde's comedy, published by International Pocket Library Corporation in paperback (64 pages, in English).
Comedy set in Victorian society: Jack and Algernon pretend to be called Ernest to win Gwendolen and Cecily, but the confusion of identities tangles until the denouement. With dialogue full of irony and wordplay, Oscar Wilde criticizes the hypocrisy and conventions of his era.
Edition adapted and simplified by K.R. Cripwell, in the Collins English Library series, level 3, with a vocabulary of 1000 words. Published in 1988.
Intended for students of English as a foreign language, especially at elementary level.
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in the emerging Aestheticism movement of the late 19th century and is widely regarded as the greatest playwright of the Victorian era. Wilde is best known for his Gothic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), his epigrams, plays and bedtime stories for children, as well as his criminal conviction in 1895 for gross indecency and for practicing homosexual acts.
