Reviews: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Reviews, 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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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

Librivox recording of Reviews, by Oscar Wilde, ed. Robert Ross. Wilde’s literary reputation has survived so much that I think it proof against any exhumation of articles which he or his admirers would have preferred to forget. As a matter of fact, I believe this volume will prove of unusual interest; some of the reviews are curiously prophetic; some are, of course, biassed by prejudice hostile or friendly; others are conceived in the author’s wittiest and happiest vein; only a few are colourless. And if, according to Lord Beaconsfield, the verdict of a continental nation may be regarded as that of posterity, Wilde is a much greater force in our literature than even friendly contemporaries ever supposed he would become.It should be remembered, however, that at the time when most of these reviews were written Wilde had published scarcely any of the works by which his name has become famous in Europe, though the protagonist of the æsthetic movement was a well-known figure in Paris and London. (Summary from Introduction by Robert Ross)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Reviews
• Author credits: Oscar Wilde
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 100
• Listed recording duration: 19:15:04

Catalogue topics

• criticism

Opening tracks: first 24 of 100

1. 00 - Prologue and Introduction — 5:46
2. 01 - Dinners and Dishes — 4:50
3. 02 - A Modern Epic — 5:48
4. 03 - Shakespeare on Scenery — 8:23
5. 04 - A Bevy of Poets — 9:15
6. 05 - Parnassus Versus Philology — 2:40
7. 06 - Hamlet at the Lyceum — 10:17
8. 07 - Two New Novels (May 15, 1885) — 3:32
9. 08 - Henry the Fourth at Oxford — 10:25
10. 09 - Modern Greek Poetry — 4:17
11. 10 - Olivia at the Lyceum — 8:49
12. 11 - As You Like It — 7:35
13. 12 - A Handbook to Marriage — 4:42
14. 13 - Half-Hours with the Worst Authors — 5:48
15. 14 - One of Mr. Conway's Reminiscences — 4:44
16. 15 - To Read Or Not to Read — 3:38
17. 16 - 12th Night at Oxford — 4:51
18. 17 - The Letters of a Great Woman — 8:23
19. 18 - News from Parnassus — 8:10
20. 19 - Some Novels — 7:26
21. 20 - A Literary Pilgrim — 5:45
22. 21 - Beranger in England — 4:28
23. 22 - The Poetry of the People — 6:01
24. 23 - The Cenci — 6:02

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