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The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde [reread]
Read: for September book club (Project Gutenberg [read on Kindle for PC], 198 pages, originally produced in 1895)
Rating: 10 out of 10 (finished 9/30/10)
Synopsis: The hilarious adventure of two dashing young bachelors and the outrageous deceptions they find themselves in over love! Whenever Worthing wants to leave his dull country life behind, he makes visits to the city posing as his fictitious “brother” Ernest. There, he becomes smitten with the ravishing Gwendolen. But when Worthing is in town, his playboy pal Algy is in the country and falling for Worthing’s young and beautiful ward, Cecily — while also impersonating Ernest! Pandemonium ensues when these two would-be Ernests find themselves face-to-face and in the predicament of explaining who they really are!
Overall Impression: Because our October book club is going to be a retreat where we will discuss all three books in the Hunger Games trilogy, we decided to go for something light and airy for September. We chose The Importance of Being Earnest, with the option to not read it at all and just come to book club and enjoy the movie version while eating a selection of British food — cottage pie, scones, cucumber sandwiches (“not available, even for ready money”) tea, etc. The movie version (staring Colin Firth, Rupert Everett, Reese Witherspoon, Francis O’Connor, and Judi Dench) is a little slice of heaven. Scones are also a little slice of heaven.
And oh my Lord…Anna made this cake and it was so good…
Ahem. Back to my review. I decided to reread the play (I read it at least once before, in college), and it only took a little over an hour to read. There’s not much to say other than that this is one of the most perfect little plays ever written. It’s funny and charming and sweet and satirical and everything that a comedy of manners should be. Perfection. One of my favorite plays of all time.
Pros: Everything.
Cons: Nothing.
Other works I’ve read by Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray and An Ideal Husband (both read before I started blogging reviews)
Other blogger opinions: None! If you’ve blogged about it, let me know.
