"I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy."
Jack Worthing has a secret. In the country, he is a model of Victorian virtue, but in the city, he becomes "Ernest," a reckless man-about-town. His best friend, Algernon Moncrieff, has a similar trick—a fictional invalid friend named Bunbury who allows him to escape his social obligations. But when both men fall in love with women who claim they can only love a man named Ernest, their web of lies begins to unravel in the most hilarious way possible.
Oscar Wilde’s "trivial comedy for serious people" is the ultimate masterpiece of high-society satire. Filled with some of the most famous epigrams in the English language, it is a sparkling, razor-sharp critique of a society that values style over substance and appearance over reality.
