Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde - Happy Prince and Other Tales

Collection of children’s stories written in 1888, dealing primarily with love and selfishness. These stories are generally sad, with a moralistic message. The collection includes: The Happy Prince, The Nightingale and...

Joy Chan 1 hour 41 minutes

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Happy Prince and Other Tales (version 4 dramatic reading)

Dramatic Readings

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Oscar Wilde - Happy Prince and Other Tales (version 4 dramatic reading)

Wilde's collection of fairytales has delighted both children and adults since it was first published in 1888. It contains five stories, «The Happy Prince», «The Nightingale and the Rose», «The Selfish Giant», «The...

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Poetry

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Oscar Wilde - Charmides, and Other Poems

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 the second part of the book. — Summary by Carolin

Tomas Peter and 7 more 1 hour 38 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Oscar Wilde - Fisherman and His Soul (Version 2)

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 Mermaid and tells her that he wants to marry her. She tells him that he...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 32 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Oscar Wilde - Canterville Ghost

The American Minister and his family have bought the English stately home Canterville Chase, complete with the ghost of Sir Simon de Canterville — blood-stains, clanking chains and all. But these modern Americans...

David Barnes 1 hour 23 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Oscar Wilde - De Profundis

This short work of Wilde's was written during his two year incarceration for «gross indecency». This work is a letter which sorts out his life, and his love toward Lord Alfred Douglas. Wilde wrote this as a farewell...

Aaron Elliott 1 hour 21 minutes

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Oscar Wilde - Canterville Ghost (version 2)

A modern American family move into a traditionally drafty and very haunted English mansion. So far so good but anyone knowing Wilde can expect twists and turns to make it interesting. In this cast the crusty old ghost...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 20 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Oscar Wilde - Fisherman and his Soul

”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 fisherman who nets and falls in love with a mermaid. But to be with her he must...

Gregg Margarite 1 hour 20 minutes

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Plays

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Oscar Wilde - Salome

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 Biblical story of Salome, stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas, who, to...

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Poetry

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Oscar Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol, (version 2)

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 rare hanging, and in the three years between his release and his untimely...

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Poetry

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Oscar Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol

Wilde’s meditation on capital punishment, the Ballad of Reading Gaol comes after he was convicted and imprisoned under charges of gross indecency. The charges stemmed from his affair with Lord Alfred Douglas, the son...

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Poetry

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Oscar Wilde - Serenade

LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 different recordings of Serenade by Oscar Wilde. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of April 20th, 2008.

Anne Cheng and 11 more 25 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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