Oscar Wilde from Purgatory: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Oscar Wilde from Purgatory by Hester Travers Smith: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 10 original MP3 tracks, 4:33:14 running time and a link to listen.
Oscar Wilde from Purgatory, credited to Hester Travers Smith, 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 Oscar Wilde from Purgatory by Hester Travers Smith. Read in English by Rob Marland Hester Dowden, who wrote under the name Hester Travers Smith, was an Irish spiritualist medium. She claimed to have communicated with the spirits of various celebrities. In Oscar Wilde from Purgatory, she reproduces the text of her "conversations" with the Irish poet and playwright, conducted via a Ouija board and automatic writing. Wilde proves just as talkative after death as he was in life. His spirit revels in the complements paid to his work by Travers Smith and her colleagues, describes how it feels to exist without a body, and pronounces James Joyce's recently published novel Ulysses a "great bulk of filth". Listeners who are primarily interested in the conversations, rather than Travers Smith's lengthy discussion of them, are directed to Chapter 1 and the Appendices. - Summary by Rob Marland
Recording facts
- Recording title: Oscar Wilde from Purgatory
- Author credits: Hester Travers Smith
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 10
- Listed recording duration: 4:33:14
Catalogue topics
- oscar wilde
- spiritualism
- psychic
- ouija board
- medium
- seance
- automatic writing
Track guide
- 01 - Foreword, Preface, and Introduction — 12:11
- 02 - Chapter I: The Psychic Messages and Automatic Writings of Oscar Wilde - part 1 — 52:26
- 03 - Chapter I: The Psychic Messages and Automatic Writings of Oscar Wilde - part 2 — 43:56
- 04 - Chapter II: The Automatic Writing — 22:42
- 05 - Chapter III: The Ouija Board — 25:31
- 06 - Chapter IV: The Sub-Conscious — 21:26
- 07 - Chapter V: Cryptesthesia — 26:12
- 08 - Chapter VI: The Spiritist Explanation — 24:05
- 09 - Chapter VII: To the Public — 25:52
- 10 - Appendices — 18:53
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