Two bachelors pretend to be the nonexistent Ernest Worthing to dodge family duties and responsibility for minor wrongdoings, but their plan begins to unravel when they start courting two young women and all arrive at the same country home for a weekend.
year: 1990, 1965, 1999, 2002, 1983, 1899, 2011, 1981, 2014, 1959
call number/section: 822, 822.3, 1000, 822.8
subjects: identity (psychology), drama, foundlings, england, drama, comedies, audiobooks, orphans, identity, manners and customs, humorous plays, english drama, electronic books, identity (philosophical concept), comedies
Editions
Wilde, Oscar
Orchises (1990)
Jack Worthing creates a fictitious brother Earnest who lives in London to escape his dull country routine, but finds the lie backfiring when he falls in love.
Schools: 1
Wilde, Oscar
Avon Books (1965)
Jack Worthing creates a fictitious brother Earnest who lives in London to escape his dull country routine, but finds the lie backfiring when he falls in love.
Schools: 2
Wilde, Oscar
Cambridge University Press (1999)
Jack Worthing creates a fictitious brother Earnest who lives in London to escape his dull country routine, but finds the lie backfiring when he falls in love.
Schools: 1
Wilde, Oscar
HighBridge Audio (2002)
Two bachelors pretend to be the nonexistent Ernest Worthing to dodge family duties and responsibility for minor wrongdoings, but their plan begins to unravel when they start courting two young women and all arrive at the same country home for a weekend.
Schools: 1
Wilde, Oscar
Longman (1983)
Schools: 1
Wilde, Oscar
Dover Books (1899)
Schools: 1
Wilde, Oscar
Simon and Brown (2011)
When Algernon and Jack fall in love with two young ladies, they've done it under false pretenses, and confusion and mayhem threaten to break up the young lovers.
Schools: 1
Wilde, Oscar
Eyre Methuen Pub (1981)
Schools: 0
Wilde, Oscar
Prestwick House, Inc. (2014)
Jack Worthing, needing a regular escape from his dull country routine, creates a fictitious brother Ernest who supposedly lives in London, but the lie backfires when he falls in love.
Schools: 1
Wilde, Oscar
Barron's Educational Series (1959)
Schools: 0
Wilde, Oscar
Schools: 0
Wilde, Oscar
Jack Worthing creates a fictitious brother Earnest who lives in London to escape his dull country routine, but finds the lie backfiring when he falls in love.
Schools: 0
Wilde, Oscar
Barron's Educational Series (1959)
Schools: 0
Wilde, Oscar
Schools: 0
Wilde, Oscar
Jack Worthing creates a fictitious brother Earnest who lives in London to escape his dull country routine, but finds the lie backfiring when he falls in love.
Schools: 1