the importance of being earnest and other plays oscar wilde

But you know how unfair people often are. It is said, of course, that she ran away twice before she was married. I am not sure, Miss Worsley, that foreigners like yourself should cultivate likes or dislikes about the people they are invited to meet. Allonby is hardly a very suitable person.

One has never heard his name before in the whole course of one's life, which speaks volumes for a man, nowadays. Lord Illingworth, of course, is a man of high distinction. Well, you couldn't come to a more charming place than this, Miss Worsley, though the house is excessively damp, quite unpardonably damp, and dear Lady Hunstanton is sometimes a little lax about the people she asks down here. What is the use of my always knitting mufflers for you if you won't wear them? They used to tell us at school that some of our states are as big as France and England put together.Īh! you must find it very draughty, I should fancy. We have the largest country in the world, Lady Caroline.

Have you any country? What we should call country? You have no country houses, I am told, in America? I believe this is the first English country house you have stayed at, Miss Worsley? Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley, with an afterword by Ned Halley.Lawn in front of the terrace at Hunstanton. The plays were originally published in book form at Wilde's own insistence, the better to spread his genius wide. Along with Salome, his darkly decadent dramatization of the Bible story, these immortal plays have continued to pack theatres to this day, and have been adapted for every kind of media. They remain among the most-loved, and most-quoted, of all drama in the English language. The four great comedies of Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husbandand The Importance of Being Earnest, were all written at the height of the controversial Irish author's powers in his last, doomed decade, the 1890s.

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The importance of being earnest and other plays oscar wilde