Oscar Wilde and Myself: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Oscar Wilde and Myself, credited to Lord Alfred Douglas, 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 Oscar Wilde and Myself by Lord Alfred Douglas. Read in English by Rob Marland The first memoir by the poet Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas was written 14 years after the death of Oscar Wilde and in the aftermath of Douglas's failed prosecution of Arthur Ransome for libel. Ransome, in his "Oscar Wilde, a Critical Study," had quoted from the expurgated portions of Wilde's prison letter to Douglas, "De Profundis", which was highly critical of his former friend and lover. Having failed to convince a jury that he had been libelled, Douglas appealed instead to posterity by writing his memoir. In "Oscar Wilde and Myself" Douglas refutes Wilde's version of the events that led to his (Wilde's) imprisonment and takes swipes at Ransome, Wilde's friend Robert Ross, other biographers of Wilde, and Wilde's overzealous imitators. He also critiques Wilde's writing and character and concludes that the Irish playwright will soon be forgotten. (Rob Marland)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Oscar Wilde and Myself
• Author credits: Lord Alfred Douglas
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 29
• Listed recording duration: 7:18:31

Catalogue topics

• oscar wilde
• bosie

Opening tracks: first 24 of 29

1. 00 - Preface and Introductory — 13:22
2. 01 - Oxford — 21:50
3. 02 - Lost Illusions — 12:46
4. 03 - Wilde in Society — 13:58
5. 04 - The Lord of Language — 16:42
6. 05 - Our Mutual Friends — 22:51
7. 06 - Lord Queensberry Intervenes — 27:04
8. 07 - The Wilde Trials — 24:48
9. 08 - Hard Labour and After — 24:46
10. 09 - Naples and Paris — 29:02
11. 10 - The ''Ballad of Reading Gaol'' — 8:48
12. 11 - The Truth about ''De Profundis'' — 31:36
13. 12 - My Letters to Wilde — 9:01
14. 13 - My Letters to Labouchere — 7:04
15. 14 - The Article in the ''Revue Blanche'' — 6:29
16. 15 - Fifteen Years of Persecution — 12:13
17. 16 - Wilde’s Poetry — 25:28
18. 17 - The Plays and Prose Works — 21:00
19. 18 - For Posterity — 8:51
20. 19 - The British Museum and ''De Profundis'' — 12:05
21. 20 - Ransome’s ''Critical Study'' — 10:58
22. 21 - My Actions for Libel — 11:35
23. 22 - ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' — 16:51
24. 23 - Literature and Vice — 9:42

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