by Oscar Wilde · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9783150084984
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«Bunbury oder Ernst sein ist wichtig» is Oscar Wilde's comedy, published by Reclam in paperback (95 pages, in German).
Two English gentlemen lead double lives to escape social conventions: Algernon visits an invented sick friend called Bunbury, and Jack presents himself in town as his fictitious brother Ernest. Their lies become tangled when both suitors court Gwendolen and Cecily, who dream of marrying a man named Ernest, and the false identities end up colliding in a comedy of errors.
Work translated into German by Franz Blei and revised by Kuno Epple, with an epilogue by Ivan Nagel. It belongs to the Reclams Universal-Bibliothek series (number 8498).
For readers of classic theatre who want to enjoy in German one of Oscar Wilde's most celebrated Victorian comedies.
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in the emerging Aestheticism movement of the late 19th century and is widely regarded as the greatest playwright of the Victorian era. Wilde is best known for his Gothic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), his epigrams, plays and bedtime stories for children, as well as his criminal conviction in 1895 for gross indecency and for practicing homosexual acts.
