Book Description:
Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) is a sparkling comedy of manners that skewers Victorian society with wit, irony, and a playful sense of absurdity. The play centers on two friends, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, who invent fictitious identities to escape social obligations — only to find their elaborate deceptions spiraling into chaos when love, family, and mistaken identity collide.
Through rapid-fire dialogue and deliciously exaggerated characters like the formidable Lady Bracknell and the romantically inclined Gwendolen and Cecily, Wilde explores themes of truth, identity, and the ridiculous seriousness with which society treats trivial matters.
A brilliant satire of social conventions, marriage, and propriety, The Importance of Being Earnest remains one of the most beloved and frequently performed plays in the English language — a masterclass in cleverness and comedic precision.
