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I have taken up a journey of reading or re-reading a classic every 3-6 months. As you read this, also know that I now like British writing and British humor. So, for me, this was a delightful, easy read.
I did not appreciate the humor as a high-school student so many years ago; while not a torture to read, I did not 'get' the easy humor/bantering that is well sprinkled throughout the book. The obvious humor was there but the subtle humor had been missed or lost to time. I'm glad I read it again.
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This play is a wickedly funny comedy about victoran bachelors Algernon Moncrieff and Ernest Worthing. The two friends could not be more different with one determined not to take life too seriously and the other determined to get engaged and keep secret a fact that would ruin his position in society.
This play reminded me why I love Oscar Wilde. He is sarcastic, witty and hilarious. He cleverly pokes fun at the absurd realities of Victorian life to show how superficial its foundation was but he does this without being self-righteous.
It really is a testament to Wilde's talent that his sense of humour is still entertaining to an audience so different from the one the play was intended for. My only complaint is that the play was much too short!
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After viewing the movie with Colin Firth and Rupert Everett, I just had to get this book. Only a small portion is deleted in the movie, but the opening scene is different from the book. It is quite short (conducive to a normal-length film); if I hadn't seen the movie first, I would have had to imagine various characters' traits in speech and intonation. I actually think the movie helped me enjoy the book...isn't that the reverse? ha.
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Penguin Classics Paperback, 2000. 8vo. xxx, 432 pp. Edited with an Introduction [vii-xxvi], Commentaries and Notes [pp. 364-432] by Richard Allen Cave. Excised scene from The Importance of Being Earnest [pp. 359-363].
First published thus, 2000.
Contents
Introduction A Note on the Texts Select Bibliography
Lady Windermere's Fan Salome A Woman of No Importance An Ideal Husband A Florentine Tragedy The Importance of Being Earnest
Appendix: The excised scene
Notes
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Now this is what I call a classic: so far as I, personally, am concerned this a book that I pick up with very high expectations, yet they are far surpassed by what I find between the pages. I did expect a lot from Wilde's plays, but I certainly wasn't prepared for so enthralling a read. I cannot but be amused at those people who continue to rant that Oscar Wilde was a perfect example of style over substance, that he never wrote anything serious, or if he did it will be forgotten at expense of his social comedies, and that he was nothing but tons of epigrams. First of all, it doesn't require a brilliant intelligence to realise that most of Wilde's epigrams are dead serious - indeed, that's where their enduring value lies; on the surface it's all fun of course, but just a little below there is a fierce social satire and just about unparalleled insight into human nature. As Bernard Shaw wisely observed once, ''nothing is more serious than great humour.'' He might well have spoken about Oscar. Unfortunately, there are two major disappointments that detract from the value of the book as a whole.Read more ›
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