Length2h 38m
About this audiobook
At a lavish house party in the English countryside, the witty and wicked Lord Illingworth offers young Gerald Arbuthnot the opportunity of a lifetime: a position as his private secretary, promising wealth and status. But Gerald's mother, the respectable Mrs. Arbuthnot, is horrified. She knows a secret that could destroy them all—for Lord Illingworth is not a stranger, but the man who abandoned her twenty years ago, leaving her to raise their illegitimate son alone .
As Wilde's sharpest epigrams cut through the drawing-room chatter, a darker truth emerges. In a world where a man's sins are forgiven and a woman's are never forgotten, Mrs. Arbuthnot must choose: reveal the past and shatter her son's future, or remain silent and lose him forever .
Oscar Wilde's blistering satire on Victorian hypocrisy explores the double standard that made one person's shame another's amusement—and asks who, in the end, is truly a woman of no importance.
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GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction, Romance
Length2 hrs 38 mins
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LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1By the same author in Cactus catalogue:
4SECOND ACT
2THE PERSONS OF THE PLAY
5THIRD ACT
3FIRST ACT
6FOURTH ACT
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