by Oscar Wilde · Penguin Books, Limited (UK) · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140621723
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«The Importance of Being Earnest» is Oscar Wilde's theatrical comedy, published by Penguin Books in paperback (80 pages, in English).
Set in Victorian England, the play satirizes upper-class conventions with wit and sharp dialogue. Two young bachelors each invent a certain Ernest to escape their routine and court two women; the misunderstanding erupts when the stories cross and the deceptions are about to be exposed.
The play was originally published in 1895; this 1995 edition belongs to the Penguin Popular Classics collection.
For readers who want to approach a classic of Victorian theatre in its original language.
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.
