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Author(s): Pearson, Hesketh
Reader(s): Beale, Simon Russell
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Biographies
Catalogue No: NA306812
Barcode: 0730099006828
Release Date: 09/1995
PEARSON, H.: Life of Oscar Wilde (The) (Abridged)
The remarkable and tragic story of Oscar Wilde, legendary wit and conversationalist, author of perhaps the most perfect comedy in the English language, yet seemingly doomed by his own flawed temperament to suffer at the hands of a censorious and hypocritical society…
Tracklist
Disc 1
Pearson, Hesketh - Author
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
|  | 1 | The Early Years | 10:03 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
| | 2 | Oxford, Magdalen College And The Dons | 09:02 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
| | 3 | The Poet And The Aesthete | 10:58 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
| | 4 | Transatlantic Success | 09:52 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
| | 5 | On The Boulevards Of Paris And London | 15:19 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
| | 6 | More Lecture Tours And The Social Whirl | 13:45 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
| | 7 | A Writer Of Stories | 10:27 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
Disc 2
| | 1 | The Picture Of Dorian Gray | 03:45 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
| | 2 | Tall, Thickset, With Heavy-Lidded Eyes | 12:36 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
| | 3 | Wilde, Frank Harris And Friends | 08:38 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
| | 4 | Wilde's Wit | 13:36 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
| | 5 | The Greatest Master Of Conversation | 10:03 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
| | 6 | Poor Aunt Jane | 05:55 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
| | 7 | Lady Windermere's Fan | 13:08 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
| | 8 | An Ideal Husband | 04:52 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
| | 9 | The Importance Of Being Earnest | 06:52 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
Disc 3
| | 1 | Wilde's Homosexuality | 05:26 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
| | 2 | The Marquess Of Queensberry | 12:11 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
| | 3 | The Decision To Prosecute | 04:57 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
| | 4 | The Trial Begins, April 3 1895 | 03:31 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
| | 5 | 'The Train Has Gone' | 06:38 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
| | 6 | A Hunted Man | 06:34 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
| | 7 | In gaol | 07:53 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
| | 8 | Escape To France | 07:32 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
| | 9 | The Last Days In Paris | 02:14 |
Beale, Simon Russell (Reader)
Total Playing Time: 03:35:47