OSCAR WILDE Premium Collection (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Complete Works: Plays, Novel, Poetry, Short Stories, Fairy Tales, Philosophical Essays, Literary Reviews, Articles, Letters & BiographyBy Oscar Wilde
Length126h 25m
About this audiobook
OSCAR WILDE Premium Collection gathers the many facets of Wilde's art: glittering comedies of manners, fairy tales of moral intensity, essays in aesthetic criticism, poems, and the darkly seductive novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. Across these works, Wilde refines paradox into philosophy and wit into social critique, placing him at the center of fin-de-siècle literature, aestheticism, and Decadence. His prose is jeweled yet precise, his drama poised between farce and ethical exposure. Born in Dublin in 1854, Wilde was shaped by classical education, Irish intellectual culture, and the Oxford aesthetic movement, where art's autonomy became a guiding creed. His public persona—dandy, lecturer, conversationalist—was inseparable from his literary method. Yet beneath the brilliance lay a serious engagement with hypocrisy, beauty, desire, punishment, and the cost of living against Victorian conventions, experiences sharpened by his trials and imprisonment. This collection is ideal for readers seeking Wilde beyond isolated quotations or a single famous play. It offers a comprehensive encounter with a writer whose elegance conceals profundity, and whose humor remains one of literature's most devastating instruments of truth.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- The Author Biography highlights personal milestones and literary influences that shape the entire body of writing.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★★ 4.6 (136)
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GenreLiterary Classics
Length126 hrs 25 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 27, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1OSCAR WILDE Premium Collection (Annotated)
26ACT ONE
2Introduction
27ACT TWO
3Author Biography
28ACT THREE
4Historical Context
29ACT FOUR
5Synopsis (Selection)
30A Woman of No Importance
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6OSCAR WILDE Premium Collection
31THE PERSONS OF THE PLAY
7The Plays
32ACT ONE
8Vera
33ACT TWO
9PERSONS IN THE PROLOGUE.
34ACT THREE
10PERSONS IN THE PLAY.
35ACT FOUR
11PROLOGUE.
36Salomé (Original version in French)
12ACT I.
37Salome (English version)
13ACT II.
38An Ideal Husband
14ACT III.
39THE PERSONS OF THE PLAY
15ACT IV.
40ACT ONE
16The Duchess of Padua
41SECOND ACT
17THE DUCHESS OF PADUA
42THIRD ACT
18THE PERSONS OF THE PLAY
43FOURTH ACT
19ACT I
44The Importance of Being Earnest
20ACT II
45THE PERSONS IN THE PLAY
21ACT III
46ACT ONE
22ACT IV
47ACT TWO
23ACT V
48ACT THREE
24Lady Windermere’s Fan
49La Sainte Courtisane
25THE PERSONS OF THE PLAY
50A Florentine Tragedy
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