num_pages: 126
description: `The truth is rarely pure, and never simple.' `. . .in married life three is company and two is none.' Is this play a `unique work of art' as Oscar Wilde believed? Or, as a first-night reviewer claimed in 1895, it `represents nothing, means nothing, is nothing'? This is for you to decide. . . Cambridge Literature is a series of study texts which presents writing in the English-speaking world from the 16th century up to the present day. The series includes novels, drama, short stories, poetry, essays and other types of non-fiction. Each edition has the complete text with an appropriate glossary. The student will find in each volume a helpful introduction and a full section of resource notes encouraging active and imaginative study methods.
language: English
title: The Importance of Being Earnest
titlecomplete: The Importance of Being Earnest (Cambridge Literature)
characters: Rev. Canon Chasuble, Cecily Cardew, Lady Bracknell, Gwendolen Fairfax, John Worthing, Algernon Montcrieff, Lane, Miss Prism, Merriman
genres: Classics, Drama, Theatre, Comedy, Plays, Humor, School, Romance, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 358522
places: England, London, England, Woolton, Hertfordshire, England
publisher: Cambridge University Press