Vintage Fair Condition - Covers and spine heavily creased, chipped and torn, with a folded rear corner. Pages browned, foxed and tide-stained. Personal writing and green highlighting. Penguin edition 1940.
Oscar Wilde exposes the fragile rules of respectable society in two celebrated plays. In The Importance of Being Earnest, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff discover that invented identities make courtship more exciting and considerably more complicated. Names, engagements and family histories become the material for a comedy in which perfect manners conceal delightful absurdity. Lady Windermere's Fan brings a sharper emotional edge to the drawing room, as suspicion about a husband's relationship with another woman threatens a young marriage and forces questions about reputation and judgement. Together, the plays reveal Wilde's gift for turning elegant conversation into a challenge to social certainty. Wit, misunderstanding and unexpected generosity illuminate the distance between what people appear to be and what they actually know about one another.
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