by Oscar Wilde · Nelson ELT · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780175565849
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«The Importance of Being Earnest» is Oscar Wilde's stage comedy in a level 3 graded reader, published by Nelson ELT in 1991 in paperback.
The comedy, a Victorian farce of mistaken identities, follows two gentlemen who have both invented the same Ernest to escape their obligations: Jack courts Gwendolen under that name, and Algernon adopts the alias to win over Cecily. When the two false Ernests meet at a country house, misunderstandings and witty retorts abound.
Part of the Nelson Readers series, level 3 (lower-intermediate), with 64 pages and a vocabulary of about 1000 words.
Aimed at lower-intermediate learners of English as a foreign language who want to read classics with controlled vocabulary.
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.
