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Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

By: Oscar Wilde
Narrated by: Derek Jacobi
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 Lord Arthur Saviles's Crime is a masterpiece of polished cynicism, in which poison, explosive clocks, and finally murder forerun married bliss.

Each of the eight stories here were published in the heyday of Wilde's career, between 1887 and 1891.

Public Domain (P)2014 Audible, Inc. Anthologies & Short Stories Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Short Stories Crime Funny
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I will say that someone at audible needs to sort out the chapters on this thing. There are 8 stories included and they are split across 6 untitled chapters, so that stories continue over chapter breaks and new stories start mid chapter. Each story should be its own chapter, and titled, so that someone can find a specific story if they want; as it is now, they'd be lost.

I also note that the description doesn't provide a list of stories, and it is not the same as the collection of this name listed on wikipedia, so here it is:
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
The Canterville Ghost
The Model Millionaire
The Fisherman and His Soul
The Young King
The Happy Prince
The Devoted Friend
The Portrait of Mr. W. H.

A decent collection of humorous stories.

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Derek Jacobi is the perfect reader for these entertainingly amusing tales. They're lightweight and fun. If you like P G Wodehouse you'll like these.

Entertaining Lightweight Tales

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Derek Jacobi reading classic stories by Oscar Wilde, it doesn't get much better than that!

wonderfully entertaining

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This is a series of short stories. Some are absolutely brilliant, some are just okay.

Some great, some okay

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I thought it would be helpful to provide a brief index of where each story begins (times are in minutes and seconds from the start of the chapter):

Chapter 1 Lord Arthur Saville's Crime
Chapter 2 (10:48) The Canterville Ghost
Chapter 3 (18:00) The Model Millionaire
Chapter 3 (30:53) The Young King
Chapter 4 The Fisherman and His Soul
Chapter 5 (17:22) The Happy Prince
Chapter 5 (39:05) The Devoted Friend
Chapter 6 The portrait of Mr. W. H.

Classic short stories by Oscar Wilde

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