Description: Lord Arthur Saviles's Crime is a masterpiece of polished cynicism, in which poison, explosive clocks, and finally murder forerun married bliss. Each of the eight stories here were published in the heyday of Wilde's career, between 1887 and 1891.

Description: Spöket på Canterville är en parodi om ett spöke vid namn Sir Simon och en amerikansk ambassadör vid namn Hiram B. Otis. Familjen Otis reser till England för att bosätta sig i ett hemsökt slott. Lord Canterville, den förra ägaren till slottet, varnar herr Otis för spöket efter Sir Simon de Canterville som har hemsökt slottet ända sedan han dödade sin fru, Eleonore, för tre hundra år sedan. Men herr Otis avfärdar spökhistorierna som strunt och bryr sig inte om Lord Cantervilles varningar.

Description: Jack Worthington has invented a rakish brother, Ernest, who calls Jack away from family duties and gives him an excuse to travel to London. Similarly, Algernon Moncrieff has created the persona of Bunbury, an invalid friend, who periodically requires his services in the country. Both young men cleverly use their invented alter egos to disguise their misdemeanors until Jack discovers that Algernon has been impersonating Ernest, to woo Jack's young ward, Cicely. To make things just a bit more complicated, Algernon's cousin Gwendolyn loves Jack, but thinks Jack's name is Ernest. This enduring comedy of manners rises on a farcical crescendo until true identies are revealed and both couples end up happily united.

Description: "Oscar Wilde's Fairy Tales continue to exert the same pull over the imagination and emotions as they did when he first read them to his children in the 1880s. Written with inspired poetic intensity and sudden flowerings of the matchless wit for which he is so well remembered, the stories combine the wisdom of parables with the impact of drama. I have loved them since I was a child: indeed they continue to make a child of me. I do not mind admitting that at the recording some passages were hard to read out loud without choking. I hope you will be as entranced by them as I have always been." written by Stephen Fry.

"It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth." Satire and pointed social commentary join with love, mistaken identity, and a missing baby in a missing handbag. An auraldelight, this play is perhaps Wilde's wittiest and most-loved romantic comedy.

Staged in 1893, when Wilde had already achieved fame, wealth and notoriety, A Woman of No Importance was another attempt to fuse comedy of manners with high melodrama. Gerald Arbuthnot is a young man on the make, with an American heiress and the post of secretary to the brilliant but dissolute Lord Illingworth within his reach. When he asks his mother to celebrate with them, it turns out that Illingworth is Gerald's father, who seduced and abandoned his mother twenty years earlier. Loyalty weighs heavier than ambition, and Gerald declines the association with Illingworth. This edition, which also analyses Wilde's various drafts and revisions of the play, argues that the playwright here continued to explore the rivalry between an older man and woman for the affection of a beautiful young man.

The Happy Prince and Other Fairy Tales
Author: Oscar Wilde
Format: MP3 and PDF
Bitrate: 128 kbps
Size: ca 18,2 MB
Language: English

The Picture of Dorian Gray
Author: Oscar Wilde
Date: 1992
Language: English
Read by: Gill Nevel
Sound quality: MPEG 2.0 layer 3, 64kbit, 16kHz Mono
Total track length: 1 hour 22 minutes
Size: 35.9Mb [4% recovery info]