Hey, guys! So, my class in school has been reading The Importance of Being Earnest in class for a few weeks, and we finished! I thought I'd blog about my thoughts on it. I really enjoyed reading it. It's very different than most books I read. One of the main differences is the fact that it is a play instead of a novel. It's also set in Victorian England. It was just really funny and ironic. I'd strongly recommend it.
The Cover:
The Cover:
There are a bunch of different covers out there. I just randomly chose one. It shows two girls, Gwendolyn and Cecily fawning over "Ernest". The title is a play on words (Earnest vs the name Ernest). The book I read had the subtitle, "A trivial comedy for serious people".
Oh, and also, the copyright is no longer valid for this book, so you guys can just go and download/ read it online for free!
My Brief Description:
Jack and Algernon are upper class men during the Victorian Era, and they constantly get into trouble. However, they want to occasionally escape their lives, so Jack created an alter ego (Ernest, his "brother", a man who is constantly up to no good in London so that he could get out of his house as much as he likes) and Algernon made up an imaginary sick friend to get him out of social events.
Everything gets complicated when Lady Bracknell, Gwendolyn's mother, forbids her from marrying Jack because of his family and Gwendolyn only wants to marry a man named Ernest (not Jack). Algernon also wants to find true love, and he looks for it in Cecily, the ward of Jack. However, he introduces himself to her as Ernest, Jack's brother...
My Review:
This book was just hilarious! It was a romantic comedy or sorts. It was just silly and ironic. I had no opinion of it at all before I started reading it, but a few pages in, I knew I was going to love reading it.
There isn't that much to say about it, but I did enjoy reading it, and I hope you give it a chance!
Link to more of my thoughts (as I read it)
Phrase:
Frightening christenings
Happy Reading!
The Cover:
There are a bunch of different covers out there. I just randomly chose one. It shows two girls, Gwendolyn and Cecily fawning over "Ernest". The title is a play on words (Earnest vs the name Ernest). The book I read had the subtitle, "A trivial comedy for serious people".
Oh, and also, the copyright is no longer valid for this book, so you guys can just go and download/ read it online for free!
My Brief Description:
Jack and Algernon are upper class men during the Victorian Era, and they constantly get into trouble. However, they want to occasionally escape their lives, so Jack created an alter ego (Ernest, his "brother", a man who is constantly up to no good in London so that he could get out of his house as much as he likes) and Algernon made up an imaginary sick friend to get him out of social events.
Everything gets complicated when Lady Bracknell, Gwendolyn's mother, forbids her from marrying Jack because of his family and Gwendolyn only wants to marry a man named Ernest (not Jack). Algernon also wants to find true love, and he looks for it in Cecily, the ward of Jack. However, he introduces himself to her as Ernest, Jack's brother...
My Review:
This book was just hilarious! It was a romantic comedy or sorts. It was just silly and ironic. I had no opinion of it at all before I started reading it, but a few pages in, I knew I was going to love reading it.
There isn't that much to say about it, but I did enjoy reading it, and I hope you give it a chance!
Link to more of my thoughts (as I read it)
Phrase:
Frightening christenings
Happy Reading!
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