Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Non-Fiction
Period: Contemporary; Romantic
Catalogue No: NA0210
Barcode: 9781843799139
Release Date: 01/2015

WILDE, O.: De Profundis (Unabridged)

Tracklist

Disc 1
Holland, Merlin - Author
Holland, Merlin (Reader)
1Introduction by Merlin Holland08:49
Holland, Merlin (Reader)
Wilde, Oscar - Author
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
2De Profundis06:26
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
3I remember, for instance, in September '93…07:12
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
4When I tell you that between the autumn of 1892…08:50
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
5On our return to London those of my friends…09:18
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
6On my return to London next day I remember…08:58
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
7I spoke of your conduct to me on three successive days…09:28
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
Disc 2
1You concluded your letter by saying…08:05
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
2While I am staying with you at Salisbury you are terribly…06:36
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
3You thought again that in sending a lawyer's letter…07:05
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
4Hate blinds people. You were not aware of that.07:12
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
5The key of the situation rested entirely with yourself.08:55
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
6How clearly I saw it then, as now, I need not tell you.06:52
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
7The second piece of news followed shortly afterwards.09:25
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
8But at the time I wrote to you I felt that for both our sakes…07:03
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
Disc 3
1Three more months go over…08:13
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
2I have spoken to you at length on this point in order that…00:44
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
3Ah! had you been in prison – I will not say through…06:58
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
4And the end of it all is that I have got to forgive you.08:23
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
5Of course I know that to ask for alms on the highway…08:20
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
6Many men on their release carry their prison along…06:54
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
7Sorrow, then, and all that it teaches one…09:00
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
8This new life, as through my love of Dante…06:30
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
Disc 4
1Christ's place indeed is with the poets.07:36
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
2I bore up against everything with some stubbornness…07:37
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
3The song of Isaiah, 'He is despised…'07:34
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
4And while in reading the Gospels…08:03
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
5Those whom he saved from their sins…06:32
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
6I hope to live long enough, and to produce work of such…07:09
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
7To each of us different fates have been meted out…09:16
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
8And the curious thing to me is that you should…05:46
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
Disc 5
1Does it ever occur to you what an awful position…06:08
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
2As if it had been possible for me to gradually drop you!07:20
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
3I know she puts the blame on me. I hear of it…07:37
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
4I remember as I was sitting in the dock on the occasion…07:41
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
5I know of nothing in all Drama more incomparable…06:51
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
6I am told by More Adey in his letter that last summer…06:31
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
7The second thing about which I have to speak to you…06:21
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
8I hope that our meeting will be what a meeting between you…05:06
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)

Total Playing Time: 04:48:24