The Importance of Being Earnest (Xist Classics)
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.19 (938 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00VAOUGRC |
| Format Type | : | |
| Number of Pages | : | 215 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-04 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
This ebook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. First performed in 1895, the play is a satire of Victorian culture and social obligations. 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. Find more great titles on our website.. 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
In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. 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. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. Jekyll and Mr. The Strange Case of Dr. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. Jekyll and Mr. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly
Stay away from Dover Thrift Version 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.. alfredlordbleep said Bonus is editor's inclusion of the scenario for The Importance of Being Earnest. 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:. If humour comes in a spectrum and slapstick is at one end of that spectrum, then this is the other end. 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