Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 5 (1898-1900): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 5 (1898-1900), 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 Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 5 (1898-1900) by Oscar Wilde. Read in English by Rob Marland This fifth and final collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde includes many letters to his friend, Robert Ross, and a long letter about prison reform to the editor of the Daily Chronicle. For most of the last three years of his life Wilde lived in Paris, but his letters also describe visits to Switzerland and Italy. The collection ends with one of Wilde's last surviving letters, which he wrote from his deathbed to beg a friend for money to pay his medical bills. The letters, some of which have been excerpted or redacted, are sourced from auction catalogues, biographies, collections of letters to 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. (Rob Marland)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 5 (1898-1900)
• Author credits: Oscar Wilde
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 81
• Listed recording duration: 4:02:58

Catalogue topics

• oscar wilde
• letters
• lord alfred douglas

Opening tracks: first 24 of 81

1. 01 - To Robert Ross, Jan. - 21. Feb. 1898 — 3:52
2. 02 - To Frank Harris, winter 1897 — 2:44
3. 03 - To Leonard Smithers, 28 Feb. 1898 — 1:30
4. 04 - To Robert Sherard — 1:00
5. 05 - To Robert Ross, 23 Mar. 1898 (version 1) — 1:15
6. 06 - To Robert Ross (version 2) — 3:03
7. 07 - To Leonard Smithers — 1:33
8. 08 - To Leonard Smithers, 15 Mar. 1898 — 1:58
9. 09 - To Robert Ross, 17 Mar. 1898 — 1:22
10. 10 - To Robert Ross, 1 Apr. 1898 — 1:47
11. 11 - To the editor of the Daily Chronicle, 24 Mar. 1898 (re: prison reform) — 15:45
12. 12 - To Robert Ross, Mar. 1898 — 1:12
13. 13 - To Robert Ross, 30 Mar. 1898 — 1:18
14. 14 - To Leonard Smithers, 28 Mar. 1898 — 0:44
15. 15 - To Robert Ross, 12 Apr. - 14 May 1898 — 11:12
16. 16 - To an unidentified correspondent, 14 May 1898 — 1:16
17. 17 - To Robert Ross, 18 May 1898 — 1:09
18. 18 - To Leonard Smithers, 20 May 1898 — 1:27
19. 19 - To Robert Ross, 20 & 24 May 1898 — 6:08
20. 20 - To Leonard Smithers — 1:28
21. 21 - To Leonard Smithers, 25 May 1898 (version 1) — 2:35
22. 22 - To Leonard Smithers (version 2) — 0:55
23. 23 - To Robert Ross, 25 May - June 1898 — 14:46
24. 24 - To Leonard Smithers, 23 June 1898 — 1:15

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