by Oscar Wilde · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420511108
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«The Importance of Being Earnest» is Oscar Wilde's comedy published by Alhambra in paperback, in a bilingual edition (English-Spanish).
Two Victorian gentlemen pretend to be called Ernest to court Gwendolen and Cecily, but their parallel lives collide when visits cross in a country house. Entanglements, secret engagements and a forgotten handbag unleash a comedy of errors that satirizes the social conventions of the era.
The play was originally published in 1895; the edition described is from 1993 and has 245 pages.
For readers of classic theater and Victorian comedy; it is common reading in schools.
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.
