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He could see also in the picture-glass the little glancings of light from the bevels and facets of the objects about the mirror and candle . And as a form designed to be read over long periods of time , often in isolation , always with patience , concentration , sympathy and interest , the novel required a type of responsiveness that was at once rapt ( capable of identifying fully with the feelings of fictional characters ) and removed ( aware of itself as a reality apart from the world of the novel ) . For the world of high society and high fashion was more porous than anyone in society cared to admit ; and the theatre , as it often does , embodied by its very theatrical nature the instability of the English class system . Nevertheless , the necessity for going out to buy them began to irk him more and more , and it was with a greater and ever greater sense of relief that he returned home again . He was , after all , a perpetual outsider in the world of elegant fashion and society he frequented . Only in a revival in 1909 did Alexander return Wilde 's name to the bill , and the play had the long and commercially successful theatrical run that it deserved . I reserve the right to give periodic , unannounced quizzes on the assigned reading .