VICTOBER 2025 discussion

A little discussion group for anyone who will be reading "The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde.

Oh my gosh I love this! I've never read it... And tbh I probably won't get to it this Victober. BUT, I have seen it on the stage about 12 times. I really love this play. Me and my grandma always used to go and see it together. So I had to comment the second I saw you made this group 😊 good luck to everyone reading it. One day I will get to it to!

I love this play! I don't know about re-reading it this Victober... (although, now I'm definitely considering it...) but I might watch the movie adaptation which I didn't see before.

Hi Rachel and Jassmine,

Ah thanks. Oscar Wilde what a wit. I hope to visit his house in Dublin before the end of the year. If you do decide to read the play please join me and we will have a laugh.

I plan to read it this month as well! I'll be interested in seeing what everyone thinks about it.

Hi Rhys-Marie,

Excellent. I still await my copy from World of Books which I ordered almost a month ago. 🙄

So I read "The Importance of Being Earnest" and I love Wilde's play on the word earnest.

I remembered the handbag scene which features Lady Bracknell from a film adaptation I had seen a few years ago.

The play is so ridiculous and fun. It was nice break from some of the more serious Victorian books.

Michelle Hyland wrote: "The play is so ridiculous and fun. It was nice break from some of the more serious Victorian books."

Oh, yes, Wilde's plays are always like a breeze of fresh air... love them so much!

Hi Jassmine,

It was so fun on a dull October evening.

I haven't read any of the others but I might.

I read Ideal Husband a pretty long time ago, but loved it then. And then I read Lady Windermere's Fan this year and thought it was pretty great too! I guess it's good to know though that Salome is really different from the rest, I read it a long time ago and don't remember it all that well but it is completely different genre...

I watched the 2002 movie version of The Importance of Being Ernest. So much fun! I watched instead of rereading the play.

Hi Lorri,

Thank you.

I must watch that version again although someone mentioned that there is an 1950s adaptation which is funnier.

Jassmine wrote: "I read Ideal Husband a pretty long time ago, but loved it then. And then I read Lady Windermere's Fan this year and thought it was pretty great too! I guess it's good to know though that Salome is ..."

Hi Jassmine,

Thank you.