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The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde

Form
Form Play
Year
Year 1895
Pages
Pages 60

Two fashionable young men invent fictional people to escape their obligations, fall in love under false names, and are saved from the tangle by a handbag left at a railway station.

To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde

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