| Playing Time |
015421 |
| Series |
HighBridge classics.
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| System Details |
Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 27388 KB). |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Downloadable audio file. |
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Title from: Title details screen. |
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Unabridged. |
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Duration: 1:54:21. |
| Performer |
Performed by a full cast. |
| Summary |
Known as one of the greatest comedies written in English, Oscar Wilde's "The importance of being earnest" attacks Victorian manners and morals in what can only be described as the most maliciously delicious way. A witty satire of Victorian social hyposcrisy, Wilde pulls the strings on his cast of late-Victorian characters making them appear, first and foremost, exactly as they are--superficial, upper class Englishmen bound and cinched by an artificial code of manners. This full-cast reading coaxes every nuance of pretension, self-importance, and double entendre from Wilde's lines. |
| Subject |
Identity (Psychology) -- Drama. -- Sound recordings.
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Foundlings -- Drama. -- Sound recordings.
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England -- Drama.
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English drama (Comedy) -- Sound recordings.
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Radio adaptations. -- Sound recordings.
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| Genre |
Radio plays.
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Comedy radio programs.
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Radio plays.
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| Other Form: |
Original 9781565116771 (OCoLC)50061319 |
| ISBN |
9781598872545 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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1598872540 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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