Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray (version 2 dramatic reading)

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Oscar Wilde



The novel tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward. Basil is impressed by Dorian's beauty …

The Importance of Being Earnest

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The Importance of Being Earnest is a classic comedy of manners in which two flippant young men, in order to impress their respected beloveds…

The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Dorian Gray, a young man of wealth and stature in late 1800's London, meets Lord Henry Wotton while posing for a portrait by his friend Basi…

An Ideal Husband

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An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedy by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of pub…

The Picture Of Dorian Gray (1891 Version)

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Oscar Wilde



The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde, appearing as the lead story in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine on 20 Ju…

The Canterville Ghost

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Oscar Wilde



The American Minister and his family have bought the English stately home Canterville Chase, complete with the ghost of Sir Simon de Canterv…

The Soul of Man

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Oscar Wilde



“(T)he past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.”Published originally …

A Woman of No Importance

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A Woman of No Importance is a play by Irish playwright Oscar Wilde. The play premièred on 19 April 1893 at London's Haymarket Theatr…

Lady Windermere's Fan

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Lady Windermere's Fan: A Play About a Good Woman is a four act comedy by Oscar Wilde, published in 1893. As in some of his other comedies, W…

The Happy Prince and Other Tales

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Collection of children’s stories written in 1888, dealing primarily with love and selfishness. These stories are generally sad, with a moral…

The Importance of Being Earnest (version 3)

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Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest is subtitled "A Trivial Comedy for Serious People," and has proved immensely popular…

The Fisherman and his Soul

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Oscar Wilde



”The Fisherman and his Soul” is a fairy tale first published in November of 1891 in Wilde’s “A House of Pomegranates”. It tells of a fisherm…

A House Of Pomegranates

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A House of Pomegranates is a collection of fairy tales, written by Oscar Wilde, that was published as a second collection for The Happy Prin…

The Importance of Being Earnest (version 2)

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Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 – 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories. Known for his barbe…

Aphorisms

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Oscar Wilde



In 1894, Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) published two collections of aphorisms: A Few Maxims For The Instruction Of The Over-Educated, in the Sa…

De Profundis

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Oscar Wilde



This short work of Wilde's was written during his two year incarceration for "gross indecency". This work is a letter which sorts …

The Importance of Being Earnest (Version 4)

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Oscar Wilde



This is a solo recording of the play, meaning that all parts including stage directions are performed by one person. LibriVox has three exc…

Salome

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The original 1891 version of the play was in French. Three years later an English translation was published. The play tells in one act the B…

The Duchess of Padua

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Guido Ferranti, a young man, travels to Padua with his friend Ascanio after receiving a mysterious letter from a stranger, claiming to know …

The Canterville Ghost (version 2)

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Oscar Wilde



A modern American family move into a traditionally drafty and very haunted English mansion. So far so good but anyone knowing Wilde can expe…

The Ballad of Reading Gaol

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Oscar Wilde



Wilde’s meditation on capital punishment, the Ballad of Reading Gaol comes after he was convicted and imprisoned under charges of gross inde…

The Happy Prince and Other Tales (version 4 dramatic reading)

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Wilde's collection of fairy tales has delighted both children and adults since it was first published in 1888. It contains five stories, &qu…

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

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Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories is a collection of short semi-comic mystery stories. This collection exemplifies Wilde's sharp …

The Happy Prince and Other Tales (version 3)

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A collection of five stories by Oscar Wilde, all incorporating his inimitable style and wit. Sometimes sweet and uplifting, sometimes caust…

The Happy Prince and Other Tales (version 2)

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Oscar Wilde



The Happy Prince and Other Tales (also sometimes called The Happy Prince and Other Stories) is an 1888 collection of stories for children by…

De Profundis (version 2)

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Oscar Wilde



This is a letter written from prison in 1897 by Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas, in which he recounts how he came to be in prison and cha…

Lady Windermere's Fan (Version 2)

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Oscar Wilde



Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman is a four-act comedy by Oscar Wilde, first produced 22 February 1892 at the St James's Thea…

The Happy Prince and Other Tales (version 5)

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Oscar Wilde



Oscar Wilde said of his story The Happy Prince that it was "an attempt to treat a tragic modern problem in a form that aims at delicacy…

Symphony in Yellow

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LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of Symphony in Yellow by Oscar Wilde. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 18, 2012.Osca…

The Picture of Dorian Gray (Version 3)

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The Picture of Dorian Gray follows the title character as he downspirals due to gaining his wish of eternal youth. - Summary by Isabella Gar…

A Florentine Tragedy and La Sainte Courtisane

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Two short fragments: an unfinished and a lost play. A Florentine Tragedy, left in a taxi (not a handbag), is Wilde’s most successful attempt…

Vera; or the Nihilists

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Vera; or, The Nihilists is a play by Oscar Wilde. It is a melodramatic tragedy set in Russia and is loosely based on the story of Vera Zasul…

A House of Pomegranates (version 2)

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A House of Pomegranates (1891) is the title of the second collection of Fairy Tales by Oscar Wilde. This book contains four tales: 1. &quo…

Reviews

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Wilde’s literary reputation has survived so much that I think it proof against any exhumation of articles which he or his admirers would hav…

The Poems of Oscar Wilde

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Complied by Thomas B. Mosher and released in 1906, this collection contains nearly every poem published by Oscar Wilde during his lifetime. …

Serenade

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LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 different recordings of Serenade by Oscar Wilde. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of April 2…

The Fisherman and His Soul (Version 2)

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Oscar Wilde



To get what we want is often the greatest curse of all. The fisherman here accidentally catches a mermaid in his net. He falls in love with…

The Ballad of Reading Gaol, (version 2)

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In 1895, Oscar Wilde was sentenced to 2 years of hard labor for acts of ‘gross indecency’. During his time at Reading Gaol, he witnessed a r…

An Ideal Husband (version 2)

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The "Ideal Husband" of the title is Sir Robert Chiltern, with his equally upright wife Lady Chiltern. He has never committed a cri…

Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde

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This is a selection of the early poetry of Oscar Wilde, selected by Robert Ross. As he puts it, "It is thought that a selection from Os…

Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 1 (1868-1890)

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Oscar Wilde



This first collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde begins with the Irish playwright's earliest extant letter, thanking his mother fo…

The Importance of Being Earnest (version 5)

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In this most popular of all Oscar Wilde’s plays, two fashionable bachelors, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, discover that each has bee…

Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 2 (1890-1895)

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Oscar Wilde



This second collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde includes letters written when the Irish playwright was at the height of his succ…

The Oscar Wilde Calendar

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Stuart Mason and Oscar Wilde



A compendium of Oscar Wilde's wit, including some of his most famous epigrams as well as unpublished quotations supplied by his friends. The…

Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 3 (1895-1897)

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Oscar Wilde



This third collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde includes the letters Wilde wrote from prison. It begins with notes of thanks to t…

The Portrait of Mr. W. H.

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Wilde's short story about an attempt to uncover the identity of Mr. W. H., the dedicatee of Shakespeare's sonnets, was first published in Bl…

Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 4 (1897-1898)

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Oscar Wilde



This fourth collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde includes the letters Wilde wrote while living in Berneval, in the months after h…

Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 5 (1898-1900)

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Oscar Wilde



This fifth and final collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde includes many letters to his friend, Robert Ross, and a long letter abo…

Charmides, and Other Poems

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This is a volume of poetry by Oscar Wilde, containing some of his rather famous longer poetry in the first part, and a section of sonnets in…

La Fuite de la Lune

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While at Trinity Collage, Wilde obtained a reputation for clever repartee and keen wit. He affected a superior air in his manners which irri…

Ravenna and Other Poems

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Oscar Wilde's poem Ravenna won the prestigious Newdigate Prize for Poetry at Oxford University. It was recited by the author in the Sheldoni…

The Harlot's House

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LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of The Harlot's House by Oscar Wilde.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for June 9, 2024. …

From Spring Days to Winter

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LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of From Spring Days to Winter by Oscar Wilde.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January…

The New Remorse

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LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of The New Remorse by Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde.This was the Weekly Poetry project fo…