Playing Time |
043725 |
System Details |
Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 66446 KB). |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
Performer |
Read by Donada Peters. |
Note |
Duration: 4:37:25. |
Summary |
Oscar Wilde was a prolific and spontaneous storyteller who once declared, "I cannot think otherwise than in stories." Here are a handful of his shorter works that demonstrate his range, versatility, and skill as a storyteller, too often overshadowed by his reputation as a dramatist, critical theorist, and novelist. Wilde shows his wit in the social parodies "The Canterville ghost," "Lord Arthur Savile's crime", "The sphinx without a secret," and "The model millionare." In "The portrait of Mr. W.H.," he identifies the mysterious dedicatee of Shakespeare's sonnets. Finally, the collection is rounded out by a selection of well known fairy tales, including "The happy prince," "The nightingale and the rose," "The selfish giant," and "The devoted friend." |
Subject |
Ghost stories, English. -- Sound recordings.
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England -- Fiction.
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Genre |
Short stories.
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Audiobooks.
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Added Author |
Peters, Donada.
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Added Title |
Canterville ghost.
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Other Form: |
Original 9780786154623 (OCoLC)78902116 |
ISBN |
0786154624 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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9780786154623 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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