Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 4 (1897-1898): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 4 (1897-1898), 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 4 (1897-1898) by Oscar Wilde. Read in English by Rob Marland This fourth collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde includes the letters Wilde wrote while living in Berneval, in the months after his release from prison, and in Naples, where he shared a villa with his former lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. In a long letter to the editor of the Daily Chronicle, Wilde describes the cruelties of prison life. At this time Wilde was writing The Ballad of Reading Gaol, and the poem is a frequent topic in his letters to his friend, Robert Ross, and publisher, Leonard Smithers. The letters, some of which have been excerpted or redacted, are sourced from auction catalogues, biographies, collections of letters to Douglas and Ross, 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 4 (1897-1898)
• Author credits: Oscar Wilde
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 68
• Listed recording duration: 3:31:28

Catalogue topics

• oscar wilde
• letters

Opening tracks: first 24 of 68

1. 01 - To Ada Leverson — 1:14
2. 02 - To Frank Harris, 1897 — 1:27
3. 03 - To Mrs Bernard Beere — 1:35
4. 04 - To the editor of the Daily Chronicle, 28 May 1897 (re: cruelties of prison life) — 27:28
5. 05 - To Robert Ross, 28 May 1897 — 9:21
6. 06 - To Robert Ross, 31 May 1897 — 15:33
7. 07 - To Ada Leverson — 1:04
8. 08 - To Lord Alfred Douglas — 7:28
9. 09 - To Robert Ross, 2 June — 0:56
10. 10 - To Lord Alfred Douglas — 2:50
11. 11 - To Robert Ross, 3 June 1897 — 2:34
12. 12 - To Lord Alfred Douglas, 4 June — 1:42
13. 13 - To Robert Ross, 7 June — 1:53
14. 14 - To Robert Ross, 5 & 6 June — 6:38
15. 15 - To Lord Alfred Douglas, 6 June — 2:56
16. 16 - To Robert Ross, 8-13 June — 4:26
17. 17 - To Frank Harris, 13 June 1897 — 11:03
18. 18 - To Robert Ross, 15 June 1897 — 1:18
19. 19 - To Lord Alfred Douglas, 15-17 June — 8:20
20. 20 - To Robert Ross 18 June 1897 — 1:09
21. 21 - To Robert Ross, 19 & 21 June — 3:58
22. 22 - To Lord Alfred Douglas, 23 June — 2:44
23. 23 - To Robert Ross, 28 June & 6 July — 2:30
24. 24 - To Lord Alfred Douglas — 1:59

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