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The Importance of Being Earnest (NHB International Collection) 61 reviews
Oscar Wilde
Nick Hern Books, 1996
Brilliantly Funny
This book has remained one of my favorites since reading it in high school ~5 years ago. I have re-read it multiple times, seen it live & as a movie, and never seem to tire of Wilde's excellent knack for satire.
It is a quick & fun read full of irony and hilariously awkward situations. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys play-format comedies with strong irony.
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The Importance of Being Earnest 7 reviews
Oscar Wilde
Prestwick House Inc., 2005
Best play I've ever read
The wit in which Wilde writes is incredible. It's a quick short play so you should definitely read it if you love plays. It's funny, and just quite great!
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Importance of Forgiveness (What Christians Should Know About)2 reviews
John G. Arnott
Sovereign World, Ltd., 1997
TheImportance of Forgiveness
This small book has provided incredible blessing. The importance of forgiveness in our lives has so often been ignored or avoided. The Lord has really blessed me as I have looked to Him for His enabling to help me to practice forgiveness on a daily basis. I have read this book through a couple times and each time it has blessed me more. I highly recommend reading and applying its powerful ...
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Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance: A Mystery6 reviews
Gyles Brandreth
Touchstone, 2008
Absolutely tiptop, Mr. Brandreth....
I cannot recommend this delicious little pastiche highly enough. The plot is outlined in previous reviews so there's no need to rehash; however, I do feel the need to contribute my proverbial two cents in regard to how compulsively readable this one is. Having a Kindle, I originally downloaded the "sample". That was all it took. I subsequently downloaded the full text immediately upon ...
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The Importance Of Living23 reviews
Lin Yutang
Harper Paperbacks, 1998
Welcome back to your Childhood!
First off, allow me to say that I'm shocked this book hasn't had more reviews. This book was a major turning point in my Life. After working the "American Dream" i.e. 50 hour work weeks and having zilch to show for it in 3 years, I had a nervous breakdown. Luckily I survived and made it through. Afterwards, I searched the bookstore for a genuine book and found this diamond in the ruff. Wow, ...
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The Importance of Music to Girls
Lavinia Greenlaw
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008
The Importance of Music to Girls is the story of the adventures that music leads us into—how it forms and transforms us. As a soundtrack, it’s there in the background while we go about the thrilling and mortifying business of growing up: raging, falling in love, wanting to change the world. Lavinia Greenlaw turns the volume up loud, and in prose of pure fury and beauty makes us remember how the music came first. For Greenlaw, ...
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The Importance of Being Foolish: How to Think Like Jesus9 reviews
Brennan Manning
HarperOne, 2006
Another Manning Classic
Brennan Manning forever secured his place as an important theologian with The Ragamuffin Gospel. If he never wrote another book, he has served Christianity well with one of the most important books ever written about the faith.
But in his book The Importance of Living Foolish, Manning continues his quest to promote a belief in Christ the recognizes the folly of the modern world and its ...
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The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics)16 reviews
Oscar Wilde
Oxford University Press, USA, 1998
THE BEST EDITION OF THE PLAYS...
All you Wildeans take note: this is the only edition of the plays wherein the lines are properly numbered for specific citation and easy reference: very, very important!!
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The Importance of Being Honest: How Lying, Secrecy, and Hypocrisy Collide with Truth in Law
Steven Lubet
New York University Press, 2007
"Lubet…tackles a series of subtle and thorny ethical questions that lawyers and judges face each day. These questions can challenge their integrity, determine their effectiveness and affect how the public views the legal profession….Lubet’s central concern, which he mines adeptly, is with actions that are arguably legal but may also be strategically or morally wrong. Lubet’s writing is a great strength: straightforward, funny, intelligent and ...
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The Importance of Being Earnest (Norton Critical Editions)
Oscar Wilde
W. W. Norton, 2005
The text of this Norton Critical Edition of The Importance of Being Earnest is the established three-act version. Originally in four acts, Wilde shortened it to three at the urging of George Alexander, the owner of the St. James Theatre and first actor to play Jack Worthing. The play is accompanied by explanatory annotations and by an appendix of excised portions. "Backgrounds" includes essays on Wilde and the 1890s by prominent cultural ...
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The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays (Enriched Classics Series) 1 review
Oscar Wilde
Pocket, 2005
Partying and Good times and thoughtless happy endings... satirically?
This fellow gives new meaning to irreverence and "farce".
His views on the virtues of having a satirically empty head
as written by one appears to be the well written best example?
His characterization of the English upper class as both idle
and clueless came too close to the truth.
Yet he mostly has happy endings and a good laugh for all.
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A Child's Work: The Importance of Fantasy Play4 reviews
Vivian Gussin Paley
University Of Chicago Press, 2005
A Child's Work: The Importance of Fantasy Play
I enjoy all of Vivian Paley's books, but this one is especially timely and pertinent since I am part of a kindergarten readiness transition team for a school district in Pennsylvania. Ms. Paley is very clear about the importance of play during the early childhood years and brings her beliefs across in a simple and convincing format. I bought a copy for each member of our team with the hope ...
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The Importance of Being Married: A Novel
Gemma Townley
Ballantine Books, 2008
Jessica Wild isn’t big on commitment. But after inheriting millions from Grace, a sweet old lady she met in her grandmother’s nursing home, the situation seems to have changed. To put an end to the many questions about her nonexistent love life, Jess had led Grace to believe she had a boyfriend-turned-fiancé-turned-husband: her glamorous boss, Anthony Milton. But Jess’s fantasy to keep Grace happy has backfired–Grace has ...
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The Importance of Being Kennedy: A Novel1 review
Laurie Graham
Harper, 2008
Typically enjoyable Laurie Graham.
Graham writes on somewhat off-beat subjects that another novelist might be afraid to tackle. She chooses to and is usually successful.
This is another good read by Graham.
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The Importance of What We Care About: Philosophical Essays 3 reviews
Harry G. Frankfurt
Cambridge University Press, 1988
Best short philosophy book of the 1980s
This book collects Frankfurt's most important essays from 1969 - 1988. It begins with "Alternative Possibilities and Moral Responsibility," the most important essay on the conditions of moral responsibility in the second half of the twentieth-century. This essay introduced "Frankfurt-style" counterexamples to the principle that to be responsible for an action (or intention, decision, etc) ...
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The Importance of Almack's2 reviews
Denise Patrick
Samhain Publishing, 2008
The Importance of Almacks
Pamela Clarkdale has always been the ignored daughter by her father. In fact she is treated as more of a servant than a daughter, but in her mothers eyes she's a young lady. Pamela finds an injured man near a stream one day and takes him home to recover. But, as her father doesn't like strangers he is kept in the stables. Pamela is drawn to Kitt and after a shock one night she is caught by ...
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The Importance of Being Earnest (Penguin Popular Classics)
Oscar Wilde
Penguin Classics, 1995
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A Man of No Importance15 reviews
Alfred Publishing Company, 2003
Moving
I first heard about this musical when a friend told me she was auditioning for a production. Her brief synopsis was enough to get me interested, and I got the CD. The musical is based on the 1995 film of the same title, not on a novel. After listening, I was intrigued enough to purchase the movie.
It's the story of a bus conductor in Dublin, Ireland. A quiet man who's job is to collect the ...
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101 Key Terms in Philosophy and Their Importance for Theology2 reviews
Kelly James Clark, Richard Lints, ...
Westminster John Knox Press, 2004
A very useful guide...
I have been teaching in introduction to theology and systematic theology course for the past half decade, and if there is one deficit that I find fairly common among the students, it is a lack of knowledge about philosophy. Once upon a time, a young man going to seminary would have a background in liberal arts with a thorough grounding in the basics of philosophy - things have changed! Many ...
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