Aphorisms: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Aphorisms, credited to Oscar Wilde, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Aphorisms, by Oscar Wilde. Read by Carl Manchester. In 1894, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) published two short 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 The Chameleon. By turns witty, intellectual, counter-intuitive and obtruse, the collections came to be seen by many as emblematic of Wilde's style, and countless collections of Wildean aphorisms have since been published. (Summary by Carl Manchester)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Aphorisms
• Author credits: Oscar Wilde
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 2
• Listed recording duration: 11:44

Catalogue topics

• aphorisms
• wilde
• epigrams

Track guide

1. 1 - A Few Maxims For The Instruction Of The Over-Educated — 4:44
2. 2 - Phrases and Philosophies For The Use of the Young — 7:01

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