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The Importance of Being Earnest

163 Ratings

4.3

Series

1 of 5

Duration
1H 35min
Language
English
Format
Category

Lyric & Poetry

A wonderfully charming recording available for the first time as a digital download.

Jack Worthing lives in the country with his budding young ward Cecily Cardew and her fusspot governess, Miss Prism. To escape his situation, Jack invents a brother named Ernest who lives in London and frequently needs him. When in London, Jack then poses as Ernest. This elaborate fabrication proceeds smoothly until Jack/Ernest falls in love and his fiancee’s mother discovers there is more – or, rather, less – to him than meets the eye.

“It is exquisitely trivial, a delicate bubble of fancy and it has its philosophy; that we should treat all trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.” Oscar Wilde

© 2010 William Collins (Audiobook): 9780007424160
© 2012 Interactive Media (Ebook): 9781909175082

Release date

Audiobook: December 9, 2010
Ebook: June 22, 2012

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