Books like The Importance of Being Earnest
If you liked The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Because shares tags: classics, plays, comedy.
Four lovers flee to a forest where fairies mix them up, while workmen rehearse a play for a duke's wedding.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Because shares tags: comedy, satire, classics.
Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide retold: Earth's end, Ford, Zaphod, Marvin, and the answer 42.
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The Master and Margarita
Because shares tags: classics, satire.
Devil Woland visits 1930s Moscow while Master writes Pilate and Margarita bargains.
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The Color of Magic
Because shares tags: comedy, satire.
A failed wizard guides a tourist across a flat world on a turtle, with comic fantasy chaos.
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Mansfield Park
Because shares tags: classics, british.
Fanny Price loves Edmund amid Crawfords theatricals at Mansfield.
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Because shares tags: classics, satire.
Raoul Duke and Gonzo binge Vegas covering Mint 400 and drug conference.
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Othello
Because shares tags: classics, plays.
Iago's lies drive the Moor of Venice to murder his innocent wife in Shakespeare's tragedy of jealousy.
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The Screwtape Letters
Because shares tags: classics, satire.
A senior devil advises his nephew Wormwood on tempting an ordinary Englishman away from faith and attention.
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Crazy Rich Asians
Because shares tags: comedy, satire.
Rachel Chu flies to Singapore with Nick Young and learns his family is not just rich but dynasty rich, with mothers, aunties, and weddings…
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Because shares tags: classics, satire.
Rebel McMurphy takes on Nurse Ratched's ward, narrated by the silent Chief Bromden who sees everything.
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Because shares tags: comedy, british.
An angel and demon team up to stop the apocalypse and save Earth.
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A Clockwork Orange
Because shares tags: classics, satire.
Teenage Alex leads his droogs on ultraviolent nights until the state rewrites him with the Ludovico Technique.
