WILDE, O.: De Profundis (Unabridged)

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Holland, Merlin, Author.

Wilde, Oscar, Author.

Contributor:

Naxos Digital Services US.

Series:

Naxos Spoken Word Library.

Naxos Spoken Word Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spoken Word.

Local Subjects:

Spoken Word.

Genre:

Video recordings.

Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Naxos Digital Services US Incorporated, 2015.

System Details:

Mode of access: Available online.

Contents:

Introduction by Merlin Holland ( 08 min., 49 sec. )

De Profundis ( 06 min., 26 sec. )

I bore up against everything with some stubbornness... ( 07 min., 37 sec. )

The song of Isaiah, 'He is despised...' ( 07 min., 34 sec. )

And while in reading the Gospels... ( 08 min., 03 sec. )

Those whom he saved from their sins... ( 06 min., 32 sec. )

I hope to live long enough, and to produce work of such... ( 07 min., 09 sec. )

To each of us different fates have been meted out... ( 09 min., 16 sec. )

And the curious thing to me is that you should... ( 05 min., 46 sec. )

Does it ever occur to you what an awful position... ( 06 min., 08 sec. )

As if it had been possible for me to gradually drop you! ( 07 min., 20 sec. )

I know she puts the blame on me. I hear of it... ( 07 min., 37 sec. )

I remember as I was sitting in the dock on the occasion... ( 07 min., 41 sec. )

I know of nothing in all Drama more incomparable... ( 06 min., 51 sec. )

I am told by More Adey in his letter that last summer... ( 06 min., 31 sec. )

The second thing about which I have to speak to you... ( 06 min., 21 sec. )

I hope that our meeting will be what a meeting between you... ( 05 min., 06 sec. )

Christ's place indeed is with the poets. ( 07 min., 36 sec. )

This new life, as through my love of Dante... ( 06 min., 30 sec. )

Sorrow, then, and all that it teaches one... ( 09 min. )

Many men on their release carry their prison along... ( 06 min., 54 sec. )

Of course I know that to ask for alms on the highway... ( 08 min., 20 sec. )

And the end of it all is that I have got to forgive you. ( 08 min., 23 sec. )

Ah! had you been in prison - I will not say through... ( 06 min., 58 sec. )

I have spoken to you at length on this point in order that... ( 44 sec. )

Three more months go over... ( 08 min., 13 sec. )

But at the time I wrote to you I felt that for both our sakes... ( 07 min., 03 sec. )

The second piece of news followed shortly afterwards. ( 09 min., 25 sec. )

How clearly I saw it then, as now, I need not tell you. ( 06 min., 52 sec. )

The key of the situation rested entirely with yourself. ( 08 min., 55 sec. )

Hate blinds people. You were not aware of that. ( 07 min., 12 sec. )

You thought again that in sending a lawyer's letter... ( 07 min., 05 sec. )

While I am staying with you at Salisbury you are terribly... ( 06 min., 36 sec. )

You concluded your letter by saying... ( 08 min., 05 sec. )

I spoke of your conduct to me on three successive days... ( 09 min., 28 sec. )

On my return to London next day I remember... ( 08 min., 58 sec. )

On our return to London those of my friends... ( 09 min., 18 sec. )

When I tell you that between the autumn of 1892... ( 08 min., 50 sec. )

I remember, for instance, in September '93... ( 07 minutes, 12 sec. )

Participant:

Holland, Merlin, Reader -- Beale, Simon Russell, Reader -- Wilde, Oscar, Author

Notes:

Naxos Digital Services electronic collection.

Streaming audio.

Publisher Number:

9781843799139

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.