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Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Drama
English
20641 Words
Ages 10 and up
417
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The Importance of Being Earnest is a play by Oscar Wilde. it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae in order to escape burdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play's major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage, and the resulting satire of Victorian ways. Contemporary reviews all praised the play's humor, though some were cautious about its explicit lack of social messages, while others foresaw the modern consensus that it was the culmination of Wilde's artistic career so far. Its high farce and witty dialogue have helped make The Importance of Being Earnest Wilde's most enduringly popular play. The successful opening night marked the climax of Wilde's career but also heralded his downfall. The Marquess of Queensberry, whose son Lord Alfred Douglas was Wilde's lover, planned to present the writer with a bouquet of rotten vegetables and disrupt the show. Wilde was tipped off and Queensberry was refused admission. Soon afterwards their feud came to a climax in court, where Wilde's homosexual double life was revealed to the Victorian public and he was eventually sentenced to imprisonment. His notoriety caused the play, despite its early success, to be closed after 86 performances. After his release, he published the play from exile in Paris, but he wrote no further comic or dramatic work. [more]

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Dimana . Importance of Saying I Love You

Romance
English
2479 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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This classic book explains how to have partners often different “love languages,” which means that what is meaningful and loving to one may not be what is valued by the other. It’s wasted effort and harmful to your relationship if you keep giving someone what they don’t want, e.g. planning surprises for a guy who prefers affectionate touch or doing the dishes for a woman who would rather hear verbal expressions of love. This book helps you figure out the importance of saying I Love You to your partner, and how to use this idea to create a closer connection. [more]

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Oscar Wilde The Importance Of Being Earnest

A Trivial Comedy For Serious People

Drama
English
20654 Words
Ages 18 and up
5
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The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personæ to escape burdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play's major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage, and the resulting satire of Victorian ways. Contemporary reviews all praised the play's humour, though some were cautious about its explicit lack of social messages, while others foresaw the modern consensus that it was the culmination of Wilde's artistic career so far. Its high farce and witty dialogue have helped make The Importance of Being Earnest Wilde's most enduringly popular play. [more]

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John Wilson The Importance Of The Proof-Reader

A Paper Read Before The Club Of Odd Volumes, In Boston, By John Wilson

Literary Collections
English
4008 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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This Paper upon "The Importance of the Proof-reader" is presented with the compliments of the University Press and [more]

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William Fitzgerald Jenkins A Matter of Importance

Fiction
English
13808 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Murray Leinster (June 16, 1896 – June 8, 1975) was a nom de plume of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, [more]

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William Fitzgerald Jenkins A Matter of Importance

Fiction
English
13796 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Murray Leinster (June 16, 1896 – June 8, 1975) was a nom de plume of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, [more]

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Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Drama
English
2 Words
No Age Recommendation
1978
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Keywords: Earnest

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OSCAR WILDE A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE

Drama
English
22504 Words
Ages 18 and up
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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. [more]

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John Wilson The Importance of the Proof-reader

A Paper read before the Club of Odd Volumes, in Boston

Biography & Autobiography
English
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Ages 18 and up
2
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John Wilson (born 8 June 1799, Kilmarnock district, Scotland; died 22 January 1870, Brighton, England; reported as being "in his 70th year" by The Brighton Times on 29 January 1870[1]) was one of the ideological architects of British Israelism, along with 16th-century French magistrate M. Lelayer, Dean Jakob Abbadie (1654?–1727), and Sharon Turner (1768–1847), the eminent London attorney, who was Wilson's contemporary. Wilson commenced studying at great length in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, in 1837. Within a year, he was giving a series of lectures, which developed an audience. In 1840, he published Our Israelitish Origin, a book of his lectures, in which he claimed that the peoples of Israel had made their way across the continent of Europe to the British Isles. He brought evidence to bear from Ptolemy and works by Diodorus, supporting the earlier history of the Israelites. He studied the works of Rawlinson, Herodotus, and Josephus, and quoted extensively from Sharon Turner. [more]

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Chester K. Steele The Mansion of Mystery Being a Certain Case of Importance,

Taken from the Note-book of Adam Adams, Investigator and Detective

Fiction
English
58885 Words
Ages 18 and up
3
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Chester K. Steele was a house pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate for a series of mystery books. These [more]

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