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Author(s): Holland, Merlin; Wilde, Oscar
Reader(s): Beale, Simon Russell; Holland, Merlin
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Non-Fiction
Period: Contemporary; Romantic
Catalogue No: NA0210
Barcode: 9781843799139
Release Date: 01/2015
WILDE, O.: De Profundis (Unabridged)
Written during his time in Reading Gaol, De Profundis is Oscar Wilde’s moving letter to Lord Alfred Douglas, whose relationship with Wilde led to the poet’s imprisonment. Here Wilde repudiates Lord Alfred and reflects on his ordeal, acknowledging how the depths of his sorrow have helped liberate him towards a fuller, freer wisdom. Brimming with beautiful passages, De Profundis is a profound and inspiring treatise on the meaning of suffering.
Tracklist
Disc 1
Holland, Merlin - Author
Holland, Merlin (Reader)
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1 | Introduction by Merlin Holland | 08:49 |
Holland, Merlin (Reader)
Wilde, Oscar - Author
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
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2 | De Profundis | 06:26 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
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3 | I remember, for instance, in September '93… | 07:12 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
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4 | When I tell you that between the autumn of 1892… | 08:50 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
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5 | On our return to London those of my friends… | 09:18 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
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6 | On my return to London next day I remember… | 08:58 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
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7 | I spoke of your conduct to me on three successive days… | 09:28 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
Disc 2
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1 | You concluded your letter by saying… | 08:05 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
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2 | While I am staying with you at Salisbury you are terribly… | 06:36 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
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3 | You thought again that in sending a lawyer's letter… | 07:05 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
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4 | Hate blinds people. You were not aware of that. | 07:12 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
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5 | The key of the situation rested entirely with yourself. | 08:55 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
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6 | How clearly I saw it then, as now, I need not tell you. | 06:52 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
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7 | The second piece of news followed shortly afterwards. | 09:25 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
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8 | But at the time I wrote to you I felt that for both our sakes… | 07:03 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
Disc 3
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1 | Three more months go over… | 08:13 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
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2 | I have spoken to you at length on this point in order that… | 00:44 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
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3 | Ah! had you been in prison – I will not say through… | 06:58 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
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4 | And the end of it all is that I have got to forgive you. | 08:23 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
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5 | Of course I know that to ask for alms on the highway… | 08:20 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
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6 | Many men on their release carry their prison along… | 06:54 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
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7 | Sorrow, then, and all that it teaches one… | 09:00 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
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8 | This new life, as through my love of Dante… | 06:30 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
Disc 4
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1 | Christ's place indeed is with the poets. | 07:36 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
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2 | I bore up against everything with some stubbornness… | 07:37 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
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3 | The song of Isaiah, 'He is despised…' | 07:34 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
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4 | And while in reading the Gospels… | 08:03 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
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5 | Those whom he saved from their sins… | 06:32 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
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6 | I hope to live long enough, and to produce work of such… | 07:09 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
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7 | To each of us different fates have been meted out… | 09:16 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
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8 | And the curious thing to me is that you should… | 05:46 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
Disc 5
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1 | Does it ever occur to you what an awful position… | 06:08 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
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2 | As if it had been possible for me to gradually drop you! | 07:20 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
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3 | I know she puts the blame on me. I hear of it… | 07:37 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
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4 | I remember as I was sitting in the dock on the occasion… | 07:41 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
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5 | I know of nothing in all Drama more incomparable… | 06:51 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
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6 | I am told by More Adey in his letter that last summer… | 06:31 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
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7 | The second thing about which I have to speak to you… | 06:21 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
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8 | I hope that our meeting will be what a meeting between you… | 05:06 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
Total Playing Time: 04:48:24