An Ideal Husband
written by Oscar Wilde back in 1895
came as a surprise
random download from the book store chart
when I ran out of books on my bookshelf
after finally finishing <Dream of Red Chamber>
which took me like years
it is written in the format of a play
making it really straight forward to read
retaining the refined and witty English conversations
3 simple scenes
surrounding the themes of
man vs woman
politics & ambition
London society
an incident of theft, insider’s trade, blackmail,
intersects with the issue of love & jealousy
some quotes:
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people
we personally dislike.
Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They
can discover everything except the obvious.
I love talking about nothing, father.
It is the only thing I know anything about.
We women worship when we love;
and when we lose our worship, we lose everything.
Fashion is what one wears oneself.
What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
Other people are quite dreadful.
The only possible society is oneself.