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The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays | Oscar Wilde
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Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work.Wildes classic comedy of manners, The Importance of Being Earnest, a satire of Victorian social hypocrisy and considered Wildes greatest dramatic achievement, and his other popular playsLady Windermeres Fan, An Ideal Husband, and Salomechallenged contemporary notions of sex and sensibility, class and cultural identity.Enriched Classics enhance your engagement by introducing and explaining the historical and cultural significance of the work, the authors personal history, and what impact this book had on subsequent scholarship. Each book includes discussion questions that help clarify and reinforce major themes and reading recommendations for further research.Read with confidence.
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AmyK1
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TheAromaofBooks I really love that play so hard. 4y
Clwojick 16 pt. 4y
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jmtrivera
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📖 The Importance of Being Earnest, I, Robot
🖋I have no I authors that I have read, but I'm interested in reading John Irving!
🎬Inception, Independence Day
🍽 Ice Cream, duh!
#ManicMonday #PlayingCatchUp @JoScho

JoScho 😀💛 5y
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Rachbb3
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Oscar Wilde is a genius. 👍❤

#LitsyClassics

LitLogophile Yes❤️ 5y
parttimedomestic I love this play. ❤️ 5y
ladym30 Agreed! 5y
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DebinHawaii
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#QuotsyMay18 #orphan

Lady Bracknell has many great quotes in Oscar Wilde's play and I love the way Dame Judy Dench delivers them in the film version. This one about Jack's unfortunate family background and the fact he has lost both his parents, always makes me chuckle.🤣

LeahBergen Love this. 😂 6y
Lcsmcat I love this play! 6y
zezeki I love this one! 6y
Itchyfeetreader Adore this play - I love the line about never having seen a spade! 6y
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ephemeralwaltz
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Oscar Wilde, you are too much ❤ This is fun, witty, quick, laugh-out-loud material while still slashing out at Victorian society - thanks @SerialReader for being so great!

Simona Off the topic ... At the moment I'm not at home, but my family informed me that I got your letter. I will be back on a Friday night or Saturday morning ... looking forward to read your letter 😘😘😘 6y
ephemeralwaltz @Simona ooh great! I'm sorry it didn't arrive before Christmas -- I hope you're having lovely holidays! 😘 6y
Simona Nothing to be sorry about! It‘s at my home, waiting for me 😊 6y
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ephemeralwaltz
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DebinHawaii
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This was a fun and quick (9 issues on Serial Reader) reread for me. Farcical satire and a good comedy of manners, I had forgotten some of the wonderful lines. It makes me want to see the movie again--although I pretty much did in my head reading the scenes.🤣👍📚

bookloo One of my favorites. 💙 6y
Sue 💜💚💜💚💜 6y
ephemeralwaltz Just started this!😍 6y
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erzascarletbookgasm
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Happy birthday to Oscar Wilde, born 16 October 1854!
I always thought his portraits are a tad #moody. 🤔
#spookyoctober @Jess7

MayJasper 😊 great graffiti 6y
DivineDiana I‘m a fan of this colorful man! 🎉 6y
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ellidaniels
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"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
—Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

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raeintheworld
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I made beads out of The Importance of Being Ernest and made a necklace. I'm thinking of a bracelet with the map beads. #GetCrafty #RiotGrams
@bookriot

julesG Wow. Looks great. I think this is something I need to try out soon. 7y
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TheKidUpstairs
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#LGBTQpride and an unfortunate reminder that there are still people being jailed (and worse) in this world for the simple fact of who they are, as Wilde was years ago. We've come a long way, but we have so much farther to go.
#riotgrams

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PurpleyPumpkin
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Two of my favourite satires. #day30 #satire #maybookflowers

RealLifeReading ❤️❤️❤️ Princess Bride 7y
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jenniferw88
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I will explain my crazy mind to you if these pictures don't​ equal #bringmesunshine & #theimportanceofbeingearnest!

Basically:
Bring me Sunshine ➡️ Morecambe and Wise ➡️ Ernie Wise (aka Ernest Wiseman) ➡️ The Importance of Being Earnest

#melodicmay #day8

Centique I'll do my Morecambe and Wise dance now and all our U.S friends will think I've lost my mind. 😂😂Great choice 👏👏👏 7y
andrew61 'what do you think of it so far?'... I will avoid the obvious and say great choice 😂 7y
Andrew65 @andrew61 Lol, yes without knowing Morecambe and Wise this could easily cause offence. 😂😂😂😂 Tea Ern, cue the laughter., or we could go for 'all the right notes but not necessarily in the right order!' True comic geniuses! May they be making heaven laugh non stop. (edited) 7y
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BookishMarginalia
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Watching the film adaptation with my #BritLit students, so we can analyze the effect of the differences on the message of the work. 👍🏼

alisahar I love this play and movie. I did speech in high school and played Cecile in "dramatic interpretation" competitions soo many times. (Not well.) 7y
alisahar Cecily! Damn autocorrect. 7y
Malisa Ah! I watched this movie last year and it was hilarious 😂 Enjoy! 7y
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MargaretPinardAuthor France's oconnor? Isn't she grand? 😬 7y
SusaninTX Love this movie! 7y
Foragingfantasy I love this movie!!! 7y
Itchyfeetreader One of my favourite plays - "I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different" always makes me snort!! 7y
Clare-Dragonfly I love the play and the movie! 7y
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kimberly.burke
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one of my favorite plays -- Oscar Wilde's dialogue is absolutely hilarious.

#alltheworldsastage #feistyfeb

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Brie
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#feistyfeb #alltheworldsastage I haven't read many plays beyond the Shakespeare I read for school, but Wilde's plays are among my favorites. So many great quotes and such witty banter.

JEMoutrageous One of my very favorites. Try The Country Wife by William Wycherley. It cracks me up. 7y
Brie @JEMoutrageous Oh I haven't heard of that one. I'll have to check it out, thanks! 7y
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Itisyourbiggestpretend
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So good!! I love it when my school reads are good reads. 👍🏽

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Itisyourbiggestpretend
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I'm laughing so hard 😂

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frankincense_and_sensibility

"More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read."

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bewareofwords
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Nothing is quite as good as Amazon delivering my books!! Time to put them on my shelf and not read them until I actually have time to do anything... #hereatlast #thatcollegelife

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Sareene
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Happy 162nd birthday, Oscar!! #oscarwilde

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GoneFishing

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Lcsmcat I love Wilde! 7y
Beetle ^^me too 7y
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DiruVamp
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There are so many quotes to choose from but this is one of my favorite Wilde quotes. Simple, to the point and so true! #somethingforsept #greatquotes

Linsy 💖 8y
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Mdargusch
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I am starting my third book on Serial Reader. So far I've enjoyed the books I've chosen. I am hoping this is as funny as the reviews say it is after just finishing the dark Ethan Frome.

Reviewsbylola Damn I'm still just 57% through Anna Karenina!! 8y
Mdargusch You need to pick the short books like me @Reviewsbylola 8y
Reviewsbylola Oh trust me, I learned my lesson. 8y
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sparingqueen
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Giving the Serial Reader app a go. So far so good!

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LibraryLydia
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“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”.

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Lylah
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😂

Merethebookgal 😂 Such a funny play! 8y
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Lylah
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I've thought this play was humorous so far but this was the first time I laughed out loud.

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carolinehawes
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Not the biggest fan. I'm very glad today's humor is not as it was in 1899... #readingforschool #earnestvsernest

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Nebklvr
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Fantastic! Bitingly funny.

Em890 One of my all-time favorite plays 8y
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ScorpioBookDreams
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These are a few of the books that make me smile. Narnia for the childhood associations, The Importance of Being Earnest for its ability to make me laugh out loud, Guernsey... for its sweetness, Jamaica Inn for the romance and adventure, and Mort because Terry Pratchett was a comic genius #augustofpages #bookphotochallenge

LauraBeth That's a great stack of smiles 😀 8y
lisakoby Some great ones! Nice picks. 8y
TheLondonBookworm 😍😍😍 Pratchett!! Great stack :) 8y
TheSpinecrackersBookClub Beautiful!!! Love your choices. 8y
Gezemice Love Pratchett :) 😍😍😍 8y
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katedensen
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It was hard to pick a book for #day7 of the #augustphotochallenge, but I'm ultimately really happy with my pick. Who better to represent #favbookishfriendships than Bumbryists Algy Moncrieff and Jack Worthing? (Especially when played respectively by Rupert Everett and Colin Firth in the 2002 film.)

TheSpinecrackersBookClub Colin Firth is my favourite actor and somehow I missed this. I need to watch this immediately. 8y
katedensen @TheSpinecrackersBookClub I'm pretty sure it's on Netflix. It's a really great version--a young Reese Witherspoon plays Cecily and Dame Judi Dench is perfection as Lady Bracknell. 8y
TheSpinecrackersBookClub Sold! I have to see this. 8y
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Pinkmeghan This is my first Wilde and my always favorite. So clever and funny!! 8y
thegirlwiththelibrarybag Did you see these two in St Trinians? 😂 8y
katedensen @thegirlwiththelibrarybag I didn't, but now I have something to do on this lazy Sunday 😄 8y
alisahar Amazing- the ultimate frenemies. 8y
katedensen @alisahar And let's be honest, frenemies are much more entertaining than friends. 8y
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I needed to "read a play" for the Book Riot #2016ReadHarderChallenge and I don't mind saying I was not that keen on the idea. I decided to delve back into audiobooks particularly for this play where I think it is so much fun to hear the witty bon mots delivered. Next, I might watch the film with Judy Dench as Lady Bracknell although in my mind she is played by Maggie Smith. My first Oscar Wilde and I would like to read more.

[DELETED] 3803335244 One of my favorites!!! 8y
alisahar I LOVE this play. When I did speech and debate in high school I was Cecily in several "dramatic interpretations" of it. ☺️ 8y
Redheadrambles It is a great play, and one that you pick up more in the text each time you experience it. I went on to watch "Wilde" a 1997 film with Stephen Fry as Oscar and I found it added much to my appreciation of his plays. 8y
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Redheadrambles
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"To be born, or at any rate bred, in a handbag, whether it has handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution."

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pppooraikul
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Lol. As a woman, I agree. 😂
[Third book for #24in48 #readathon]

Iceangel9 My fav is "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." 8y
pppooraikul @Iceangel9 Oscar Wilde's sarcasm never gets old. 😂 8y
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Classic_Wirginia
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Absolutely hilarious. It's fast and easy to read, please read it. It's amazing. There's an argument about muffins, how could you not love this play.

Shortstack One of my all time favorites!!! 8y
WordWaller My favorite play. 8y
JSW Ridiculously fun. 😆 8y
RealLifeReading So fun! 8y
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Kristy_K
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Incredibly witty.

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Classic_Wirginia
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Lady Bracknell is a low key psychopath.

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Classic_Wirginia
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Algernon's speech about Ernest/Jack. HILARIOUS! the whole first scene is comedic gold. I'm so glad I found this. Thank you @SerialReader !

Shortstack This is one of my all time favorite plays!!! Wilde is genius! 8y
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literati
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You'll be surprised by how funny this still is.

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booksandbigideas
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My comment on this scene really sums up the whole play!

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jeff
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A Wilde night ahead.

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