The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays by Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays by Oscar WildeCombining epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation, the works collected in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays are edited with an introduction, commentaries and notes by Richard Allen Cave in Penguin Classics. 'To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness' The Importance of Being Earnest is a glorious comedy of mistaken identity, which ridicules codes of propriety and

Embark upon a journey with the little duckling while it survives obstacles and finds true companionship

the plague begins as a series of portents

Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War

Lara Cameron seems to posses everything that life has to offer

and why you should always pet a cat when you meet one on the street

including Knut Hamsun

and many independent sources

But for the Royal Air Force pilot who has just taken off from West Germany

requiring the services of a cane and fonder of cigars than warm milk

and revenge

including the prestigious Dublin IMPAC award for A Heart So White

torrential style marks the novel as an indelible masterpiece