Oscar Wilde

This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and reader!=s notes to help the modern reader appreciate Wilde's wry wit and elaborate plot twists.Oscar Wilde's madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers? entanglements still delights readers more than a century after its 1895 publication and premiere performance. The rapid-fire wit and eccentric characters of The Importance of Being Earnest have made it a mainstay of the high school curriculum for decades.Cecily Cardew and Gwendolen Fairfax are both in love with the same mythical suitor. Jack Worthing has wooed Gewndolen as Ernest while Algernon has also posed as Ernest to win the heart of Jack's ward, Cecily. When all four arrive at Jack's country home on the same weekend'the "rivals" to fight for Ernest's undivided attention and the "Ernests" to claim their beloveds'pandemonium breaks loose.Only a senile nursemaid and an old, discarded hand-bag can save the day

The Importance of Being Earnest

Claudia | she/her

angie

Tija

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain. 

It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. 

Then a passionate celibacy is all that any of us can look forward to. 

When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people.

Bart Veldhuijsen 

Jack: Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense.

william wukkuan

I haven’t the smallest intention of doing anything of the kind. To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one’s own relations.

I am glad to hear it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind. There are far too many idle men in London as it is. How old are you?

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