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Oscar Wilde
Jack Worthing calls himself Ernest in town and pretends to have a wicked younger brother of that name, while his friend Algernon Moncrieff has invented an…
Jack Worthing calls himself Ernest in town and pretends to have a wicked younger brother of that name, while his friend Algernon Moncrieff has invented an invalid called Bunbury to escape dull dinners. When Jack proposes to Algernon's cousin Gwendolen, who could only love a man named Ernest, and Algernon goes down to the country posing as Ernest to woo Jack's ward Cecily, the lies collide, and only a handbag left at Victoria Station can settle who anyone really is.
Oscar Wilde's comedy opened in London in February 1895, and it is perhaps the wittiest play in English. This is a dramatic reading by a cast of eleven LibriVox volunteers, about two and a quarter hours.
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