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Lord Arthur Saviles Crime and Other Stories Audiobook by Oscar Wilde
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Title: Lord Arthur Saviles Crime and Other Stories
Author: Oscar Wilde
Narrator: Rupert Degas, David Timson, Anthony Donovan
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-18-10
Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 11 votes
Genres: Classics, British Literature
Publisher's Summary:
A palmists prediction leads to murder; an enigmatic womans lifestyle is a mystery to be solved; a ghost tries to frighten the new tenants of his home; a man has discovered the dedicatee of Shakespeares Sonnets; a millionaire wants to be painted as a pauper. Lord Arthur Saviles Crime and Other Stories is a collection of fascinating short stories that are subversive as well as entertaining. Also included in this audiobook is 'The Birthday of the Infanta from A House of Pomegranates', in which an ugly dwarf loves a beautiful princess. How will his feelings fare in a cruel society?
Editorial Reviews:
A well-narrated collection features five pieces of short fiction originally published in 1891. The anthology includes Wilde's best-known story, "The Canterville Ghost," a satiric and ultimately touching account of a brash American family frustrating a British ghost, and the enigmatic "Portrait of Mr. W. H.," in which research into the identity of the dedicatee of Shakespeare's sonnets leads to monomania and suicide. All the selections drip with irony, paradox, and iconoclasm while showing off the author's celebrated cleverness and wit. All three narrators well understand and communicate these qualities. In addition, they mercifully tone down the instances of excessive sentiment that could otherwise tumble them into bathos.
Members Reviews:
some of these stories are timeless
I really enjoyed most of the stories in this collection. If nothing else they give a window on the popular English perceptions about Americans of the time as well as some (again, for the time) biting satire on English middle-class mores and attitudes. I often re-listen to this collection when I need an antidote to the reverentional treatment that late Victorian England gets on PBS, especially Masterpiece Theatre -- which I enjoy, but come on, in reality the streets were full of horse dung and the upper-class treated the lower classes like they were not human. All in all, well worth the price.
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Title: Lord Arthur Saviles Crime and Other Stories
Author: Oscar Wilde
Narrator: Rupert Degas, David Timson, Anthony Donovan
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-18-10
Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 11 votes
Genres: Classics, British Literature
Publisher's Summary:
A palmists prediction leads to murder; an enigmatic womans lifestyle is a mystery to be solved; a ghost tries to frighten the new tenants of his home; a man has discovered the dedicatee of Shakespeares Sonnets; a millionaire wants to be painted as a pauper. Lord Arthur Saviles Crime and Other Stories is a collection of fascinating short stories that are subversive as well as entertaining. Also included in this audiobook is 'The Birthday of the Infanta from A House of Pomegranates', in which an ugly dwarf loves a beautiful princess. How will his feelings fare in a cruel society?
Editorial Reviews:
A well-narrated collection features five pieces of short fiction originally published in 1891. The anthology includes Wilde's best-known story, "The Canterville Ghost," a satiric and ultimately touching account of a brash American family frustrating a British ghost, and the enigmatic "Portrait of Mr. W. H.," in which research into the identity of the dedicatee of Shakespeare's sonnets leads to monomania and suicide. All the selections drip with irony, paradox, and iconoclasm while showing off the author's celebrated cleverness and wit. All three narrators well understand and communicate these qualities. In addition, they mercifully tone down the instances of excessive sentiment that could otherwise tumble them into bathos.
Members Reviews:
some of these stories are timeless
I really enjoyed most of the stories in this collection. If nothing else they give a window on the popular English perceptions about Americans of the time as well as some (again, for the time) biting satire on English middle-class mores and attitudes. I often re-listen to this collection when I need an antidote to the reverentional treatment that late Victorian England gets on PBS, especially Masterpiece Theatre -- which I enjoy, but come on, in reality the streets were full of horse dung and the upper-class treated the lower classes like they were not human. All in all, well worth the price.