I had seen a film version of this play a couple of years ago (the 2002 version starring Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Frances O’Connor, Reese Witherspoon and Judi Dench) and I remember laughing out loud at a lot of it. (Well, to be honest, I’d already read The Picture of Dorian Gray back in my early 20s and because there’s a distinct lack of other novels in Mr Wilde’s back catalogue I wasn’t left with much choice.) I don’t normally read plays (as the 200-plus reviews on this blog will attest), but I decided to make an exception in this case. This edition, with its vibrant green cover and tracing-paper thin paper (all 100 per cent recycled), retails for a meagre £2 - that’s a damn cheap price for a masterpiece, in my opinion. In my quest to read more work by Irish literary greats, I recently purchased a newly repackaged Penguin Popular Classic version of Oscar Wilde’s 1895 play The Importance of Being Earnest. Fiction – paperback Penguin Popular Classics 67 pages 1994.
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