The Importance of Being Earnest (Xist Classics)

This play is witty and funny and is the most popular and enduring of Oscar Wilde's plays. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it.Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. First performed in 1895, the play is a satire of Victorian culture and social obligations. This ebook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takesGet your next Xist Classic title for Kindle here: amzn/1A7cKKlFind all our our books for Kindle here: amzn/1PooxLlSign up for the Xist Publishing Newsletter here. The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. Find more great titles on our website.. This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents

The Strange Case of Dr. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. In another three days, he wrote it again. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, an

"Stay away from Dover Thrift Version" according to B Wo. The Dover Thrift edition is a highly abridged version. There are entire scenes and characters missing. And the ending is abruptly cut short. Spend the extra money on finding an edition with complete Oscar Wilde text.. Bonus is editor's inclusion of the scenario for The Importance of Being Earnest alfredlordbleep Excellent edition for Peter Raby's introductions to all the plays and Wilde's original scenario for The Importance of Being Earnest. Line numbers as well are a nice touch.For literary criticism of The Importance of Being Earnest see Raby's own Companion to the play. If you're really in deep, go for Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations series, for his selection of essays devoted to Earnest. Here is a distillation of Ian Gregor's conclusion:What distinguishes Shakespeare and Jonson from countless less successful dramatists, [is] the use of language. But whereas their language wa. "If humour comes in a spectrum and slapstick is at one end of that spectrum, then this is the other end." according to Brohovsky. It would be all too easy to dismiss this play as a light romantic comedy. Although it is about a series of near thwarted romances – the stuff of a million ‘chick-flicks’ and romantic comedies going back as far as the eye can see in drama – this is also something much, much more. It is also a delightfully amusing commentary on human sexual relations, the English class system and (much more importantly) a perfect mirror on the amusing excesses of human selfishness. In fact, some of the best lines in the play, and the funniest lines in the play, highlight our