Author of Audiobooks - Oscar Wilde
The Picture Of Dorian Gray (1891 Version) - Oscar Wilde
The Picture Of Dorian Gray (1891 Version) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
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 June 1890, printed as the July 1890 issue of this magazine. Wilde later revised this edition, making several...
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (version 5) - Oscar Wilde
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (version 5) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
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 and imaginative treatment; it is a reaction against the purely imitative character of modern art.” His Fairy...
Aphorisms - Oscar Wilde
Aphorisms - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Satire
In 1894, Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) published two collections of aphorisms: A Few Maxims For The Instruction Of The Over-Educated, in the Saturday Review newspaper, and Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young, in the Oxford student magazine...
Symphony in Yellow - Oscar Wilde
Symphony in Yellow - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of Symphony in Yellow by Oscar Wilde. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 18, 2012. Oscar Wilde, an Irish author who lived for much of his life in London, is most famous for his witty, satirical...
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
The Importance of Being Earnest is a classic comedy of manners in which two flippant young men, in order to impress their respected beloveds, pretend that their names are “Ernest,” which both young ladies believe confers magical qualities on the...
The Picture of Dorian Gray (version 2 dramatic reading) - Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray (version 2 dramatic reading) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
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 and becomes infatuated with him, believing his beauty is responsible for a new mode in his art. Dorian meets...
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (version 3) - Oscar Wilde
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (version 3) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A collection of five stories by Oscar Wilde, all incorporating his inimitable style and wit. Sometimes sweet and uplifting, sometimes caustic and pointed, they all are well worth listening to. The Happy Prince is a beautiful tale about a statue of a...
A House Of Pomegranates - Oscar Wilde
A House Of Pomegranates - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A House of Pomegranates is a collection of fairy tales, written by Oscar Wilde, that was published as a second collection for The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888). Wilde once said that this collection was "intended neither for the British child...
A House of Pomegranates (version 2) - Oscar Wilde
A House of Pomegranates (version 2) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A House of Pomegranates (1891) is the title of the second collection of Fairy Tales by Oscar Wilde. This book contains four tales: 1. "The Young King"; which is about taking responsibility. 2. "The Birthday of the Infanta"; a commentary on the...
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories - Oscar Wilde
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: General Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories is a collection of short semi-comic mystery stories. This collection exemplifies Wilde's sharp wit and dark humour. Stories in this collection includeLord Arthur Savile's Crime,The Canterville Ghost,The...
La Fuite de la Lune - Oscar Wilde
La Fuite de la Lune - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
While at Trinity Collage, Wilde obtained a reputation for clever repartee and keen wit. He affected a superior air in his manners which irritated his fellow undergraduates, so that he once became the object of their practical joking. While at Oxford...
The Canterville Ghost - Oscar Wilde
The Canterville Ghost - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
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 will have no truck with ghostly...
The Fisherman and his Soul - Oscar Wilde
The Fisherman and his Soul - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
”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 shed his soul, which goes off to...
Lady Windermere's Fan - Oscar Wilde
Lady Windermere's Fan - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Satire
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, Wilde satirizes the morals of Victorian society, and attitudes between the sexes. The action centres around a...
Lady Windermere's Fan (Version 2) - Oscar Wilde
Lady Windermere's Fan (Version 2) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Plays / Satire
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 Theatre in London. The play was first published in 1893. Like many of Wilde's comedies, it bitingly satirizes the...
An Ideal Husband (version 2) - Oscar Wilde
An Ideal Husband (version 2) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Literary Fiction
The "Ideal Husband" of the title is Sir Robert Chiltern, with his equally upright wife Lady Chiltern. He has never committed a crime, never had a "past" and never bowed to corruption or influence, or so she thinks... The disreputable Mrs Cheveley is...
Charmides, and Other Poems - Oscar Wilde
Charmides, and Other Poems - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Poetry
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...
The Duchess of Padua - Oscar Wilde
The Duchess of Padua - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Plays / Romance / Drama
Guido Ferranti, a young man, travels to Padua with his friend Ascanio after receiving a mysterious letter from a stranger, claiming to know the true secret of Guido's birth. His plan of revenge goes awry, however, when he falls in love with his...
De Profundis (version 2) - Oscar Wilde
De Profundis (version 2) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Philosophy
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 charts his spiritual development. (summary by AdamH)NOTE: ."Transcribed from the 1913 Methuen & Co. edition...
An Ideal Husband - Oscar Wilde
An Ideal Husband - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays
An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedy by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honor. The action is set in London, in "the present", and takes place within a single day....
The Canterville Ghost (version 2) - Oscar Wilde
The Canterville Ghost (version 2) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Published 1900 onward
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 has a tough time convincing the...
Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde - Oscar Wilde
Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Poetry
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 Oscar Wilde’s early verses may be of interest to a large public at present familiar only with the always popular...
The Importance of Being Earnest (version 2) - Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest (version 2) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays
Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 – 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories. Known for his barbed wit, he was one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London, and one of the greatest...
The Importance of Being Earnest (version 3) - Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest (version 3) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Comedy
Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest is subtitled "A Trivial Comedy for Serious People," and has proved immensely popular since its first performance in 1895. The play certainly has its farcical and comic elements, such as the witty banter...
Salome - Oscar Wilde
Salome - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Plays
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 her stepfather's dismay but to...
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (version 4 dramatic reading) - Oscar Wilde
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (version 4 dramatic reading) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
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 Devoted Friend", and "The...
A Florentine Tragedy and La Sainte Courtisane - Oscar Wilde
A Florentine Tragedy and La Sainte Courtisane - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Tragedy
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 at tragedy – intense and domestic, with surprising depth of characterisation. It was adapted into an opera...
The Soul of Man - Oscar Wilde
The Soul of Man - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Political Science / Modern
“(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 as “The Soul of Man Under Socialism,” this is not so much a work of sober political analysis; rather it can...
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (version 2) - Oscar Wilde
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (version 2) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Short Stories
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (also sometimes called The Happy Prince and Other Stories) is an 1888 collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde. It is most famous for The Happy Prince, the short tale of a metal statue who befriends a...
Serenade - Oscar Wilde
Serenade - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
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....
The Oscar Wilde Calendar - Oscar Wilde
The Oscar Wilde Calendar - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Humor
A compendium of Oscar Wilde's wit, including some of his most famous epigrams as well as unpublished quotations supplied by his friends. The book is formatted as a calendar, with one saying for each day of the year, and was edited by Wildean...
The Happy Prince and Other Tales - Oscar Wilde
The Happy Prince and Other Tales - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Short Stories
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 the Rose, The Selfish Giant,...
A Woman of No Importance - Oscar Wilde
A Woman of No Importance - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays
A Woman of No Importance is a play by Irish playwright Oscar Wilde. The play premièred on 19 April 1893 at London's Haymarket Theatre. It is a testimony of Wilde's wit and his brand of dark comedy. It looks in particular at English upper class...
The Ballad of Reading Gaol, (version 2) - Oscar Wilde
The Ballad of Reading Gaol, (version 2) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Poetry
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 death in 1900, was inspired to write...
Reviews - Oscar Wilde
Reviews - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Wilde’s literary reputation has survived so much that I think it proof against any exhumation of articles which he or his admirers would have preferred to forget. As a matter of fact, I believe this volume will prove of unusual interest; some of the...
De Profundis - Oscar Wilde
De Profundis - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
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 letter to Douglas. (summary by...
Vera; or the Nihilists - Oscar Wilde
Vera; or the Nihilists - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Plays
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 Zasulich. It was the first play that Wilde wrote. It was produced in the United Kingdom in 1880, and in New York...
The Importance of Being Earnest (Version 4) - Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest (Version 4) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Satire
This is a solo recording of the play, meaning that all parts including stage directions are performed by one person. LibriVox has three excellent dramatic recordings with all the parts played by different people so if that is more to your taste,...
The Ballad of Reading Gaol - Oscar Wilde
The Ballad of Reading Gaol - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Poetry
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 of the Marquis of Queensberry....
The Poems of Oscar Wilde - Oscar Wilde
The Poems of Oscar Wilde - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Anthologies
Complied by Thomas B. Mosher and released in 1906, this collection contains nearly every poem published by Oscar Wilde during his lifetime. From his Oxford undergrad days, through his rise to fame and scandal, all the way to his death, we witness an...