# The Importance of Being Earnest

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- Book: [The Importance of Being Earnest](https://www.bookquiver.com/oscar-wilde/the-importance-of-being-earnest) ([The Importance of Being Earnest.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/oscar-wilde/the-importance-of-being-earnest.md))
- Authors: [Oscar Wilde](https://www.bookquiver.com/oscar-wilde)
- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- ISBN: 978-03-9342-197-2
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2022-06-30
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In a world obsessed with appearances, telling the truth can be surprisingly inconvenient. In The Importance of Being Earnest , Oscar Wilde turns love, courtship and social respectability into a sparkling game of deception, as two men invent alter egos to escape the expectations placed upon them. Mistaken identities, romantic entanglements and outrageous social rules collide in a comedy that skewers the performance of respectability and the absurdity of trying to live up to other people’s ideas of who we should be. With its razor-sharp wit and unforgettable characters, Wilde’s enduring classic remains as relevant to our age of carefully curated identities as it was to Victorian society.