Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 1 (1868-1890): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 1 (1868-1890), credited to Oscar Wilde, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 1 (1868-1890) by Oscar Wilde. Read in English by Rob Marland This first collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde begins with the Irish playwright's earliest extant letter, thanking his mother for the hamper she had sent to him at school. It includes letters about his travels in Italy, his American lecture tour, the staging of his first play (Vera, or the Nihilists), arrangements for the publication of a friend's poetry collection, and exchanges in the press with artist James McNeill Whistler. The letters, some of which have been excerpted or redacted, are sourced from auction catalogues, newspapers, biographies, and other texts in the public domain. For a complete collection of Wilde's letters, please see "The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde," (2000) edited by Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis. - Summary by Rob Marland

Recording facts

• Recording title: Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 1 (1868-1890)
• Author credits: Oscar Wilde
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 57
• Listed recording duration: 2:16:27

Catalogue topics

• oscar wilde
• letters
• james mcneill whistler

Opening tracks: first 24 of 57

1. 01 - To Lady Jane Wilde, 8 Sept. 1868 — 1:54
2. 02 - To Sir William Wilde and Lady Jane Wilde, c. 1875 — 14:47
3. 03 - To Lady Jane Wilde — 0:51
4. 04 - To the editor to Routledge's Christmas Annual — 1:27
5. 05 - To Hermann Vezin, 4 Oct. 1880 — 1:51
6. 06 - To Oscar Browning — 1:19
7. 07 - To Robert Browning — 0:44
8. 08 - Exchange with an unidentified correspondent, 30 Sept. - 1 Oct. 1881 — 0:58
9. 09 - To the editor of The Sun (Baltimore, MD), 23 Jan. 1882 — 1:27
10. 10 - To Mrs Julian Hawthorne, 12 Feb. 1882 — 0:52
11. 11 - To Colonel W. F. Morse — 1:02
12. 12 - To J. M. Stoddart — 0:49
13. 13 - To Joaquin Miller — 4:37
14. 14 - To J. M. Stoddart — 1:08
15. 15 - To Colonel W. F. Morse, Mar. 1882 — 0:53
16. 16 - To Richard D'Oyly Carte, 16 Mar. 1882 — 1:36
17. 17 - To Richard D'Oyly Carte — 1:24
18. 18 - To Richard D'Oyly Carte, c. Apr. 1882 — 1:47
19. 19 - To Colonel W. F. Morse, c. 21 Mar. 1882 (version 1) — 2:23
20. 20 - To Colonel W. F. Morse (version 2) — 1:01
21. 21 - Rennell Rodd to Oscar Wilde — 1:05
22. 22 - To Mrs Bernard Beere — 5:06
23. 23 - To J. M. Stoddart, 17 Apr. 1882 — 0:44
24. 24 - To J. M. Stoddart — 0:54

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