Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions by Frank HARRIS (1856 - 1931) Genre(s): *Non-fiction, Biography & Autobiography Read by: Martin Geeson in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 00 - Author's Introduction 00:09:26 - 01 - I. Oscar's Father and Mother on Trial 00:46:16 - 02 - II. Oscar Wilde as a Schoolboy 01:09:14 - 03 - III. Trinity, Dublin: Magdalen, Oxford 01:32:44 - 04 - IV. Formative Influences: Oscar's Poems 02:13:49 - 05 - V. Oscar's Quarrel with Whistler and Marriage 02:44:27 - 06 - VI. Oscar Wilde's Faith and Practice 03:03:48 - 07 - VII. Oscar's Reputation and Supporters 03:21:15 - 08 - VIII. Oscar's Growth to Originality About 1890 03:57:59 - 09 - IX. The Summer of Success: Oscar's First Play 04:17:28 - 10 - X. The First Meeting with Lord Alfred Douglas 04:39:18 - 11 - XI. The Threatening Cloud Draws Nearer 05:12:52 - 12 - XII. Danger Signals: the Challenge 05:59:57 - 13 - XIII. Oscar Attacks Queensberry and is Worsted 06:42:53 - 14 - XIV. How Genius is Persecuted in England Consumers of biography are familiar with the division between memoirs of the living or recently dead written by those who 'knew' the subject more or less intimately, and the more objective or scholarly accounts produced by later generations.In the case of Wilde, as presented to us by Frank Harris, we are in a way doubly estranged from the subject. We meet with Oscar the charismatic talker, whose tone of voice can never be reproduced - even if a more scrupulous biographer had set down his words accurately - and we are perhaps already aware of him as Wilde the self-destructive celebrity who uneasily fills the place of the premier gay icon and martyr in our contemporary view.Neither of these images will do. We need to read as many accounts as possible. Harris, though himself a self-advertising literary and sexual buccaneer, takes a wincingly representative view of Wilde's homophile activity: for him it is a patrician excrescence, the abominable vice of the few, contracted at English boarding schools - though thankfully 'not infectious' as far as he himself is concerned.What a long road we have to travel to arrive at the essentially gay man of today! But there are many shortcuts to take us back to where we came from… (Summary by Martin Geeson) More information: http://librivox.org/oscar-wilde-his-life-and-confessions-by-frank-harris/

To The Men Who Went Down On The Titanic by Margaret Steele ANDERSON (1867 - 1921) Genre(s): Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry) Read by: Algy Pug, Bruce Kachuk, David Lawrence, Lee Ann Howlett, Leonard Wilson, Matthew Datcher, Rick Chamberlin, Rhys Harrison, Tomas Peter, tovarisch in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 01 - To The Men Who Went Down On The Titanic - Read by ALP 00:01:31 - 02 - To The Men Who Went Down On The Titanic - Read by BK 00:03:24 - 03 - To The Men Who Went Down On The Titanic - Read by DL 00:04:57 - 04 - To The Men Who Went Down On The Titanic - Read by LAH 00:06:44 - 05 - To The Men Who Went Down On The Titanic - Read by LLW 00:08:27 - 06 - To The Men Who Went Down On The Titanic - Read by MSD 00:09:50 - 07 - To The Men Who Went Down On The Titanic - Read by RELC 00:11:46 - 08 - To The Men Who Went Down On The Titanic - Read by RH 00:13:19 - 09 - To The Men Who Went Down On The Titanic - Read by TP 00:14:55 - 10 - To The Men Who Went Down On The Titanic - Read by VB Margaret Steele Anderson's tribute to the men left on board the doomed ship, some of whom followed the 'Women and children first' tradition of the sea. - Summary by David Lawrence More information: http://librivox.org/to-the-men-who-went-down-on-the-titanic-by-margaret-steele-anderson/ LibriVox - free public domain audiobooks (https://librivox.org/)