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The Importance of Being Earnest
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Start date
January 16, 2015
Finish date
January 20, 2015
Why we're reading this
I had never read this, it's over 100 years old and honestly it was short, so I decided to give it a try. …more

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Maryam
Oct 05, 2020 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: classics, plays, print
Reread it as part of my book club and loved it even more.

A pretty quick and funny play. It is wonderful how Oscar Wilde managed to compress so much drama, humor, mystery, and tension into so little language. This play was hysterically funny from beginning to end.

“It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth”
stephanie
Jul 13, 2007 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
a little too outlandish for me to give it five stars, it nevertheless is quite hilarious. the women are stupid, but not depressingly so, and do grow throughout the play, and in fairness, the men seem to be equally stunted in their emotional growth. it's fast, witty and very very clever. ...more
Hannah
Aug 25, 2010 rated it really liked it
So funny! Loved it.
Maggie
Apr 16, 2007 rated it liked it
Lisa
May 20, 2007 rated it liked it
Shelves: 2008, bookclub, plays
Teri
Jul 08, 2007 rated it really liked it
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Jennifer Hortman
Jan 14, 2008 rated it really liked it
Jennifer
Mar 03, 2008 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: drama
Rachel Stevens
Sep 21, 2008 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Isabel
Dec 05, 2008 rated it it was amazing
Nicole
Dec 13, 2008 marked it as to-read
Samantha
Dec 21, 2009 rated it it was amazing
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ellen
Jul 03, 2014 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Sarah
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Meghan
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Kelsey
Jan 26, 2019 rated it really liked it
Courtney
Dec 19, 2020 marked it as to-read
Heather
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Christina
Dec 26, 2021 rated it it was ok
yana
Dec 28, 2022 marked it as to-read
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