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Apart from the fact there were several books about the same story and so you can suppose it is an important one, maybe the title rang the bell.

It is “The Importance of being Ernest”, and its author is Oscar Wilde. The double sense which is used in the title gives an idea about the subject of the play and this words game is unique. So, the author emphasized sarcastically the different characters and how Jack and Argy tried to avoid their unwelcome responsibilities and conquer the love of Gwendoline and Cecily respectively. With a theatre comedy like this, Oscar Wilde is trying to get across to the reader a funny description about the hypocrisy of English society in Victorian era.

My favourite character is one of the main ones: Jack takes the identity of Earnest because he knows that Gwendoline is in love with that name.

The characters may seem quite real and believable because they represent some typical behaviours even in our society nowadays.

The course of the story evolves into an amazing mess, which is typical in many comedies like this one.

Of course I would recommend it. I think this theatre play is one of the best works written by Oscar Wilde, and it can be considered an English Literature masterpiece.

Manuel C. Lázaro