Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 2 (1890-1895): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 2 (1890-1895), 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 2 (1890-1895) by Oscar Wilde. Read in English by Rob Marland This second collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde includes letters written when the Irish playwright was at the height of his success. Wilde defends several of his works from criticism and even censorship, and writes "prose poems" to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, that will eventually be read out in court. 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 2 (1890-1895)
• Author credits: Oscar Wilde
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 42
• Listed recording duration: 2:38:10

Catalogue topics

• oscar wilde
• letters
• lord alfred douglas

Opening tracks: first 24 of 42

1. 01 - Exchange with the editor of the St James's Gazette, 26-28 June 1890 (re: criticism of The Picture of Dorian Gray) — 32:51
2. 02 - To the editor of the Daily Chronicle, 2 July 1890 (re: criticism of The Picture of Dorian Gray) — 5:44
3. 03 - Exchange with the editor of the Scots Observer (re: criticism of The Picture of Dorian Gray) — 20:45
4. 04 - To Clyde Fitch — 0:42
5. 05 - To an unidentified correspondent (re: biography for a cyclopedia), 1890 — 0:55
6. 06 - To the editor of the Daily Telegraph (London, UK), 3 Feb. 1891 (re: fashions in dress) — 8:31
7. 07 - To the editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, 27 Aug. 1891 — 1:21
8. 08 - To the editor of the Times (London, UK), 25 Sept. 1891 (re: Rudyard Kipling) — 2:33
9. 09 - To the editor of the Speaker (London, UK), 5 Dec. 1891 (re: criticism of A House of Pomegranates) — 6:10
10. 10 - To the editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, 11 Dec. 1891 — 5:20
11. 11 - To the editor of the Daily Telegraph (London, UK), 19 Feb. 1892 (re: actors as puppets) — 7:35
12. 12 - To the editor of the St. James's Gazette, 27 Feb. 1892 (re: criticism of Lady Windermere's Fan) — 3:14
13. 13 - To Monsieur X of the Gaulois, June 1892 (re: censorship of Salome) — 2:39
14. 14 - To 'Sydney', Oct. 1892 — 0:41
15. 15 - To Lord Alfred Douglas — 1:15
16. 16 - To Lord Alfred Douglas — 1:14
17. 17 - To an unidentified correspondent (re: Lady Windermere's Fan) — 1:21
18. 18 - To the editor of the Times (London, UK), 2 Mar. 1893 (re: Salome) — 1:48
19. 19 - To Lord Alfred Douglas — 1:54
20. 20 - To Lord Alfred Douglas — 1:42
21. 21 - To Ada Leverson — 1:22
22. 22 - To Ada Leverson — 1:27
23. 23 - To 'Frank' — 2:00
24. 24 - To Lord Alfred Douglas — 1:23

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