The Importance of Being Earnest: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 3 original MP3 tracks, 2:11:19 running time and a link to listen.
The Importance of Being Earnest, 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 The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. Read in English by realisticspeakers; Alan Mapstone; Rob Marland; Kelly S. Taylor; Cavaet; EliseDee; TriciaG; Algy Pug; Jenn Broda; Adrian Stephens In this most popular of all Oscar Wilde’s plays, two fashionable bachelors, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, discover that each has been simplifying his social obligations via the use of a convenient false persona. Their comfortable white lies suddenly lead to chaos when romance enters the picture in the form of the lovely Gwendolyn Fairfax and the innocent Cecily Cardew. Hilarity ensues as the bachelors attempt to quickly untangle the web of their deceptions in order to win the lady of their choice and withstand the scrutiny of the formidable Lady Bracknell. - Summary by Kelly S. Taylor Cast List John Worthing, J.P. cavaet Algernon Moncrieff Rob Marland Rev. Canon Chasuble, D.D Algy Pug Merriman Adrian Stephens Lane, Manservant Alan Mapstone Lady Bracknell Kelly S. Taylor Hon. Gwendolen Fairfax Elise Dee Cecily Cardew Jenn Broda Miss Prism, Governess TriciaG Stage Directionsrealisticspeakers
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Importance of Being Earnest
- Author credits: Oscar Wilde
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 3
- Listed recording duration: 2:11:19
Catalogue topics
- farce
- social satire
- comedy of manners
Track guide
- 01 - ACT I — 45:58
- 02 - ACT II — 53:43
- 03 - Act III — 31:38
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