Costanza Book Club
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest"
Oddly, the only work of literature I can compare this play to is
Don Quixote
: I read every line expecting to be amused, and was rarely disappointed. It is pretty much every impression I ever had of Wilde, in play form.
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