Title: The Importance of Being Earnest
Author: Oscar Wilde
Genre: Play, Fiction, Satire
Published: 1895
BookMarks
“The Importance of Being Earnest” is a satirical play by Oscar Wilde. The lead characters invent relatives to get out of social obligations, and somehow end up realizing that their facades were truths
Overall, a short, and funny read.
A few lines which stood out from the play
- The truth is never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!
- Everybody is clever nowadays. You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. - Was this a foreboding of the LinkedIn gyaanis to come some 120 odd years later!
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