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Violence
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No violence
Language
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No profanity
Sexual Content
None
Romantic pursuit; entirely innocent
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
None
No disturbing content; purely pleasurable comedy
What this book is about
Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff both maintain fictional alter egos named 'Ernest' to escape their social obligations. When they pursue the same fashionable women who are each in love with someone named Ernest, their elaborate lies begin to unravel with perfectly timed comic consequences. Wilde's sparkling masterpiece of wit—with its impossibly quotable epigrams—remains the finest comedy of manners in the English language.
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