Showing results by author "Oscar Wilde" in Comedy & Humour
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BBC Classics: Ultimate Story Collection
- 90 unmissable tales
- By: Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle, Virginia Woolf
- Narrated by: Sam Dale, Joseph Ayre, Carolyn Pickles, and others
- Length: 26 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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A treasure chest of timeless short stories by some of the world's greatest authors Suspense and horror 1 The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire - Arthur Conan Doyle 2 The Signalman - Charles Dickens 3 Lost Hearts - MR James 4 The Sealed Room - Arthur Conan Doyle. 5 Mrs Badgery - Wilkie Collins 6...
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Terrible editing, great stories!
- By Sue McCabe on 05-09-21
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BBC Classics: Ultimate Story Collection
- 90 unmissable tales
- Narrated by: Sam Dale, Joseph Ayre, Carolyn Pickles, Don Gilet, Clare Corbett, Ronny Jhutti, Helen Clapp, Susan Jameson, Full Cast
- Length: 26 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 03-06-21
- Language: English
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The Importance Of Being Earnest
- By: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: Jeremy Clyde, Maurice Denham, Prunella Scales, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Algernon Moncrieff, a bachelor-about-town, has invented an invalid friend called Bunbury in order to get out of tiresome family engagements. At the same time, his friend Jack Worthing has invented a wicked brother called Ernest to disguise his own misdemeanours. When Algernon poses as Ernest to...
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Absolutely loved it, I've listened to this 3 times
- By Rhyann Jennifer on 08-08-19
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The Importance Of Being Earnest
- Narrated by: Jeremy Clyde, Maurice Denham, Prunella Scales, Richard Pasco
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 24-02-10
- Language: English
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Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations
- By: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Ito
- Length: 1 hr and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde is a timeless collection of the sharpest observations, paradoxes, and epigrams from one of literature’s most brilliant minds. Oscar Wilde’s wit is elegant, mischievous, and relentlessly insightful. With effortless precision, he skewers social conventions, exposes hypocrisy, and reveals enduring truths about love, ambition, beauty, morality, and human folly. Each quotation stands alone yet contributes to a larger portrait of Wilde’s worldview—one that prizes individuality, intellectual courage, and the art of living well.
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Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Ito
- Length: 1 hr and 41 mins
- Release date: 15-01-26
- Language: English
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An Ideal Husband
- By: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: Alan Weyman, Amanda Friday, Ben Lindsey-Clark, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedy by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honor. The action is set in London, and takes place over the course of 24 hours.
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An Ideal Husband
- Narrated by: Alan Weyman, Amanda Friday, Ben Lindsey-Clark, Chris Marcellus, Linda Barrans, P. J. Morgan, Elizabeth Klett
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 13-01-17
- Language: English
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The Importance of Being Earnest
- A Full-Cast Production Featuring Tim Brooke-Taylor
- By: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: Full Cast Audio Drama, Tim Brooke-Taylor
- Length: 1 hr and 56 mins
- Original Recording
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The most renowned and wittiest of Oscar Wilde's comedies, The Importance of Being Earnest ridicules Victorian sensibilities and is still strikingly relevant to this day. This full-cast audio adaptation featuring Tim Brooke-Taylor as Lady Bracknell is unique yet at the same time reassuringly familiar, with wonderful performances from the Offstage Theatre Group.
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The Importance of Being Earnest
- A Full-Cast Production Featuring Tim Brooke-Taylor
- Narrated by: Full Cast Audio Drama, Tim Brooke-Taylor
- Length: 1 hr and 56 mins
- Release date: 27-05-21
- Language: English
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The Canterville Ghost
- By: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: AI Voice Arthur Lane
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Step into the enchanting world of "The Canterville Ghost" by Oscar Wilde, brought to life in this captivating audiobook narration by Arthur Lane. Join the Otis family as they move into an ancient English mansion, blissfully unaware of the mischievous...
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The Canterville Ghost
- Narrated by: AI Voice Arthur Lane
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
- Release date: 12-06-26
- Language: English
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The Devoted Friend
- By: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: Sara Gladstone
- Length: 25 mins
- Unabridged
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In Oscar Wilde’s bittersweet fable The Devoted Friend, kindness and loyalty are put to the test in a charming countryside tale with a sharply moral edge. Little Hans is a gentle gardener who believes deeply in friendship and generosity. His wealthy neighbor, the Miller, speaks poetically about...
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The Devoted Friend
- Narrated by: Sara Gladstone
- Length: 25 mins
- Release date: 25-11-25
- Language: English
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Importance of Being Earnest (version 5)
- By: Oscar Wilde
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Step into the witty world of Oscar Wildes most celebrated play, where two dapper bachelors, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, cleverly navigate their social lives with the help of invented identities. However, their charming fabrications unravel in amusing fashion when love enters the scene, embodied by the enchanting Gwendolyn Fairfax and the sweet Cecily Cardew. As the gentlemen scramble to untangle their tangled web of lies to win their hearts and face the formidable Lady Bracknell, a delightful chaos ensues. Join us for an entertaining journey filled with humor and romance, expertly ...
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Lord Arthur Savile's Crime [Classic Tales Edition]
- By: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: B. J. Harrison
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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A palm reader notifies Lord Arthur that murder is in his future. But not his murder - he’s the murderer. This really throws a wrench into his wedding plans, for Lord Arthur is soon to be married to the most beautiful lady in London. In fact he loves her so much, he decides to postpone the wedding until his business is done. Now, for a tasteful homicide....
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Lord Arthur Savile's Crime [Classic Tales Edition]
- Narrated by: B. J. Harrison
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
- Release date: 07-05-18
- Language: English
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The Devoted Friend
- A Classic Victorian Fairy Tale of Satire, Irony, and the True Meaning of Friendship
- By: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: Laura Greaves
- Length: 27 mins
- Unabridged
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What is the price of a heart that knows no bounds? In the shimmering, bittersweet world of Oscar Wilde’s "The Devoted Friend," loyalty is a beautiful garden, but manipulation is the winter frost that threatens to wither it all. This isn't just a fairy tale; it is a captivating dance of irony...
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The Devoted Friend
- A Classic Victorian Fairy Tale of Satire, Irony, and the True Meaning of Friendship
- Narrated by: Laura Greaves
- Length: 27 mins
- Release date: 18-04-26
- Language: English
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Woman of No Importance
- By: Oscar Wilde
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A Woman of No Importance is a brilliant play by the renowned Irish playwright Oscar Wilde, first performed on April 19, 1893, at London’s Haymarket Theatre. This captivating work showcases Wildes sharp wit and his unique brand of dark comedy, delving into the intricacies of English upper-class society. Since its debut, it has been staged across Europe and North America, proving its enduring relevance and charm. (Summary by Wikipedia) Cast Lord Illingworth Peter Bishop, Sir John Pontefract Ernst Pattynama, Lord Alfred Rufford Bob Gonzalez, Mr. Kelvil, M.P. Nigel Boydell, The Ven. Archdeacon ...
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Canterville Ghost
- By: Oscar Wilde
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When an American minister and his family purchase the grand English estate of Canterville Chase, they quickly discover theyre not alone. The ghost of Sir Simon de Canterville haunts the halls, complete with eerie bloodstains and the sound of clanking chains. However, these modern Americans refuse to be frightened by ghostly antics; instead, they’re determined to outsmart the specter in a hilarious battle of wits. (Summary by David Barnes)
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The Happy Prince
- By: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: Abigail Reno
- Length: 22 mins
- Unabridged
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The story of The Happy Prince has three major themes. Firstly it shows that apparent beauty is nothing and the real beauty is to bestow love and sacrifice. Secondly, it discusses that love and sacrifice are two saving forces. Thirdly, it shows that there is a large gap between rich and poor people the rulers and the masses. When the happy prince is alive he lives a happy life without sorrows, he is living a care free life but after his death he sees through a tall Colum that life has another view except happiness and that is helplessness poverty, hypocrisy and corruption of elite and ruling class.
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The Happy Prince
- Narrated by: Abigail Reno
- Length: 22 mins
- Release date: 02-05-24
- Language: English
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The Nightingale & the Rose
- By: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: Susie Emmett
- Length: 15 mins
- Unabridged
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The Nightingale & The Rose is one of Oscar Wilde’s most poignant short stories. A nightingale overhears a student lamenting that he hasn’t a red rose to give to his true love, so she sets out to find a rose, but must sacrifice a great deal to get it. The Nightingale & The Rose was first published in The Happy Prince and Other Tales in 1888.
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The Nightingale & the Rose
- Narrated by: Susie Emmett
- Length: 15 mins
- Release date: 15-10-23
- Language: English
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An Ideal Husband
- By: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: Michael Ward
- Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedic stage play by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honor. The action is set in London, in "the present", and takes place over the course of 24 hours. Together with The Importance of Being Earnest, it is often considered Wilde's dramatic masterpiece. After The Importance of Being Earnest, it is his most popularly produced play. Performed by Michael Ward.
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An Ideal Husband
- Narrated by: Michael Ward
- Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 23-04-18
- Language: English
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Fifty Shades of Dorian Gray
- By: Oscar Wilde, Nicole Spector
- Narrated by: Bruce Mann
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
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Meet artist Rosemary Hall and follow her inevitable downfall brought by her lust for the famous Dorian Gray - a tale both familiar and new in this brilliant erotic mash-up of one of the world’s most beloved novels. With a mix of old fashioned Victorian debauchery and erotic 21st-century lust this cleverly sexed-up classic will leave you wanting more!
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Gray by name Gray by nature!
- By Brenda on 08-08-13
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Fifty Shades of Dorian Gray
- Narrated by: Bruce Mann
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 01-04-13
- Language: English
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An Ideal Husband
- By: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: Flo Gibson
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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In this wickedly funny play, a seemingly ideal couple and their charming, privileged friends surmount such details as selling government secrets, theft, and bribery with love triumphant over all.
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An Ideal Husband
- Narrated by: Flo Gibson
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 31-10-08
- Language: English
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The Importance of Being Earnest
- By: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: J.D. Kelly
- Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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The Importance of Being Earnest is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on February 14th 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personæ to escape burdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play's major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage, and the resulting satire of Victorian ways. Its high farce and witty dialogue have helped make The Importance of Being Earnest Wilde's most enduringly popular play.
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The Importance of Being Earnest
- Narrated by: J.D. Kelly
- Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 10-12-18
- Language: English
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A Woman of No Importance (Director's Playbook Edition)
- By: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: David Hopkins
- Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins
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An original recording of one of Oscar Wilde's comedic classics and a precise satire of Britain's upper classes. At a gathering at Hunstanton Chase, the young Gerald Arbuthnot has been given a rare opportunity to make something of himself by the cavalier Lord Illingworth, but a chance meeting between his mother Mrs. Arbuthnot and Lord Illingworth reveals that there's more behind the offer than Gerald knows.
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A Woman of No Importance (Director's Playbook Edition)
- Narrated by: David Hopkins
- Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 27-09-17
- Language: English
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The Importance of Being Earnest - edited by James Warwick and Alison Larkin
- By: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: Alison Larkin, James Warwick
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
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TV star James Warwick and award-winning narrator/comedienne Alison Larkin star in this accessible, dazzlingly funny two-actor production of The Importance of Being Earnest--a trivial comedy for serious people. We're in England in 1895. Algy and Jack are debonair bachelors-about-town who plan to court Gwendolen and Cecily, despite opposition from the formidable Lady Bracknell.
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The Importance of Being Earnest - edited by James Warwick and Alison Larkin
- Narrated by: Alison Larkin, James Warwick
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
- Release date: 17-04-17
- Language: English
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