# An Ideal Husband

**Author:** Oscar Wilde
**Tags:** Drama, Comedies, London (England)
**Price:** Free
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**Added:** 10.07.2026
**URL:** https://samolit.com/books/95937

## Description

In fashionable London, a glittering dinner party at the home of Sir Robert Chiltern, a rising political star, sets the stage for scandal, blackmail, and moral reckoning. An Ideal Husband revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honour. The arrival of the cunning Mrs. Cheveley threatens to expose a long-buried secret from Sir Robert's past, one that could destroy both his career and his marriage. Lady Chiltern's view of their marriage rests on her having an ideal husband, a model spouse in both private and public life whom she can worship, insisting Sir Robert remain unimpeachable in all his decisions. As pressure mounts, the dandyish Lord Goring emerges as an unlikely voice of reason, questioning whether anyone can live up to such impossible standards. With razor-sharp wit, biting social satire, and an unerring eye for hypocrisy among the English upper classes, Oscar Wilde crafts a comedy that is as entertaining as it is probing, exploring forgiveness, ambition, and the gap between the ideals we demand of others and the compromises we make ourselves. A sparkling, quintessentially Wildean examination of love, honor, and public life.