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What is wealth for? It is the oldest question about money, and the one our culture has almost forgotten to ask. A Hebrew slave organized one of the first national food-security programs in human history. A Talmudic sage wrote a single legal document that quietly anchored bankruptcy law for two...

This final play from the pen of Oscar Wilde is a stylish send-up of Victorian courtship and manners, complete with assumed names, mistaken lovers, and a lost handbag. Jack and Algernon are best friends, both wooing ladies who think their names are Ernest, "that name which inspires absolute confidence". Wilde's effervescent wit, scathing social satire, and high farce make this one of the most cherished plays in the English language.