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An Ideal Husband (Dover Thrift Editions)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 822.8
EAN: 9780486414232
Edition: Unabridged
ISBN: 048641423X
Label: Dover Publications
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 96
Publication Date: February 05, 2001
Publisher: Dover Publications
Studio: Dover Publications
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Editorial Review:
Wilde's scintillating drawing-room comedy revolves around a blackmail scheme that forces a married couple to reexamine their moral standards. A supporting cast of young lovers, society matrons, and a formidable femme fatale exchange sparkling repartee, keeping the action of the play at a lively pace.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Great easy Wilde's book
This book is a great nineteenth century literature of one of mi favourites writers ever . It makes a great picture of the english bourgeoisie of the century combined with humour, sarcasm and moral content. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Rating:  - Gotta love Oscar Wilde
I love Oscar Wilde's penchant for reversals. This play is terribly good fun but makes you think at the same time. I want to see the play acted out on stage now that I've read it!
Rating: - Moral Clarity and Hedonic Flippancy
As a dish for Oscar Wilde's inimitable and devilishly sweet locution, "An Ideal Husband" accentuates adequately. Like Roger Moore's 70's Bond flicks (before they became cartoons in the 80's), the play is saturated with the style, but very little of the substance from previous genius.
The excuse for, more than the theme of, the play is the unforgiving and insincere moral code among the social elite of fin de siècle London. Sir Robert Chiltern's otherwise ivory political career grew ... Read More
Rating: - Chiltern: "You prefer to be natural?"
Chevely: "Sometimes. But it is such a difficult pose to keep up."
Perhaps not so well known as "The Importance of Being Earnest," this has all the same banter, manners, and sharp-eyed look at the crumbling edge of the upper crust in Vistorian England. It pleases the attentive listener at many levels. Considered only as a stream of one-liners and clever quips, it delivers all you could ask for.
But because it's Wilde, it's also a wild tirade against the mannered (sometimes ... Read More
Rating: - One of the great masterpieces of English Drama
My very favourite of Oscar Wilde's plays. Choc-a-bloc with wit, and humorous repartee, it also is an intriguing story, and fascinating to see how it plays out. No wonder it is still popular 112 years after is first produced with recent productions on video/DVD doing very well.
Member of Parliament Lord Robert Chiltern is blackmailed by the wicked Mrs. Cheverly, with a secret from his youth, leading to a crisis in his life, and in his marriage to the virtuous Lady Chiltern. It is up to his friend, ... Read More
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