“Oh, I love London Society! It has immensely improved. It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.” What makes an ideal husband? For Lady Chiltern, it’s a person who is unfailingly moral both in public and private – like her husband Sir Robert. However, her beloved isn’t the paragon he appears, having made his fortune from a fraudulent scheme to build a canal in Argentina. With the threat of scandal looming in the form of the vindictive blackmailer Mrs Cheveley, will Sir Robert’s past indiscretions ruin his career and marriage? Master of sass Oscar Wilde was one of the first to make his plays accessible to the reading public. Arrested on the last day of the first theatrical run, the playwright’s name was stripped from the first print run of An Ideal Husband, published in 1899. Kobo Editions offers this fully-accessible version of the original text for your enjoyment.