Oscar Wilde has 66 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 207 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.7★ across 404 ratings. The most-rated is The Picture of Dorian Gray.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Oscar Wilde's only novel, given a superbly splendid modern reading by the talented Rupert Graves. Many classic Wilde quotes emanate from this horror novel.
(P)1993, 2002 CSA Telltapes Ltd.
Le Crime de Lord Arthur Savile et autres nouvelles
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Dans la première nouvelle, Le Crime de Lord Arthur Savile, on entre d'emblée dans une soirée mondaine. Septimus R. Podgers, chiromancien, prédit à Lord Arthur Savile qu'il sera l'auteur d'un crime. Le jeune homme, désespéré, croit ses plans de mariage contrariés et va tenter de forcer le destin... Le sphinx sans secret raconte l'histoire d'un jeune homme amoureux d'une femme très mystérieuse dont il va tenter de percer le secret... Le modèle millionnaire est une courte nouvelle également publiée en 1887. Le personnage du récit, Hughie Erskine, est un jeune homme amoureux d'une jeune femme qu'il ne peut épouser faute de fortune. En rendant visite à son ami le peintre Alan Trevor, il voit un vieux en haillons qui pose comme modèle. Ayant pitié, il lui donne une livre... Mais ce modèle n'est pas celui qu'il croit... A travers ces trois nouvelles, traitées non sans humour, Oscar Wilde nous offre une satire de la noblesse victorienne, de sa morale et de ses codes.
©Domaine public (P)Les Mots en soie
Born to be Wilde
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A BBC radio celebration of the works of Oscar Wilde, including energetic adaptations of his best-known plays, short stories and original dramas about the man himself. Long before he'd produced any of his great works, Oscar Wilde was already famous for being famous. Armed only with some witty epigrams, a carefully crafted persona and his genius for self-promotion, he had conquered America and transformed himself from nobody to star. This radio collection opens with four plays from Radio 4's Born to be Wilde season, offering a 21st-century perspective on the making of one of the first true celebrities. First up are two sparkling and surprising productions of his two most popular comedies, marking the peak of his theatrical career. The Importance of Being Earnest and An Ideal Husband feature stellar casts including Mathew Baynton, Jeany Spark, John Heffernan and Miranda Raison, with the latter also featuring music by Steppenwolf, Taylor Swift and Amy Winehouse. Next, two plays by Marcy Kahan and Lavinia Murray explore aspects of Wilde's life. The Warhol Years charts his astonishing rise, as he embarks on his US tour determined to be famous for 15 minutes - and then some. Oscar and Constancy portrays a celebrity marriage in crisis, as Wilde's domestic and creative lives vie for supremacy. Both dramas star Max Bennett as the young Wilde, with Dervla Kirwan as his mother, Speranza. Also included in this collection are nine of Wilde's classic short stories. The deliciously satirical 'Lord Arthur Savile's Crime', his humorous supernatural story 'The Canterville Ghost', read by Alistair McGowan, and Joseph Ayre narrates two delightful stories with a twist: 'The Sphinx Without a Secret' and 'The Model Millionaire'. Wilde's dazzling fairytales - 'The Selfish Giant', 'The Happy Prince', 'The Nightingale and the Rose', 'The Remarkable Rocket' and 'The Birthday of the Infanta' - are read by Joseph Fiennes, Joseph Ayre, John Moffatt and Paul McGann. Track listing: The Importance of Being Earnest An Ideal Husband The Warhol Years Oscar and Constancy Lord Arthur Savile's Crime 'The Canterville Ghost' 'The Selfish Giant' 'The Happy Prince' 'The Model Millionaire' 'The Sphinx Without a Secret' 'The Nightingale and the Rose' 'The Remarkable Rocket' 'The Birthday of the Infanta'
©2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd
The Classic Tales Podcast, Season Five
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Mystery. Adventure. Horror. Romance. You can get a healthy mix of it all in The Classic Tales Podcast, Season Five. An anthology of all of the stories released through the podcast during 2011. Over 36 hours total! Optimized for mobile listening, this is one binge-worthy collection! Titles in the anthology include the following: The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie (novel) Poems by Edgar Allan Poe, including "The Raven", "The Sleeper", "Bridal Ballad", "The City in the Sea", "Dreams", "El Dorado", and "Annabel Lee" "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" by Oscar Wilde "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe "Jeeves Takes Charge" by P.G. Wodehouse A Chapter in the History of the Tyrone Family by Sheridan Le Fanu (novella) A Room with a View by E.M. Forster (novel) The Mark of Zorro by Johnston McCulley (novel) Anthem by Ayn Rand (novella) "The Lord of the Dynamos" by H.G. Wells "Playing with Fire" by Arthur Conan Doyle "The Judge's House" by Bram Stoker "In Letters of Fire" by Gaston LeRoux "The Red Headed League" by Arthur Conan Doyle "Jeeves in the Springtime" by P.G. Wodehouse "Deep Waters" by P.G. Wodehous "The Aunt and the Sluggard" by P.G. Wodehouse "A Kidnapped Santa Claus" by L. Frank Baum The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen (novella) "The Man Who Lived Backwards" by Charles F. Hall
Public Domain (P)2020 B.J. Harrison
The Picture of Dorian Gray
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The Picture of Dorian Gray is a novel which shocks us still. The sensibilities of its original Victorian readership may have blanched at the exoticism and barely disguised eroticism which drip from Wilde’s prose, but for us today who barely look twice at such things, we find something much more horrific at the heart of the book.
Public Domain (P)2020 Simon Hester
The Picture of Dorian Gray
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The Picture of Dorian Gray, first published in 1890, is still one of the most riveting novels ever written. The genius plot has everything to capture and hold the imagination, from lust, debauchery and doomed romance though blackmail, murder, and the disastrous effect of a morally depraved French novel. That’s not even counting the visits to the opium den, the addiction, the stalking or the string of deaths - accidental or self-inflicted. The characters are likewise intriguing in their extreme expression of hedonism, vanity, callous indifference, and a host of other sins. But it is the relentless accumulation of evidence on Dorian’s picture which lends the narrative that brooding sense of Gothic horror which renders it so irresistible. Finally, Oscar Wilde’s masterpiece conducts an intertextual conversation with Hamlet, The Tempest, Goethe’s Faust, and Against the Grain, a remarkable 1884 novel by Joris-Karl Huysmans.
Public Domain (P)2019 Woodkeep Audio