A Woman of No Importance
Written by Oscar Wilde
Narrated by Martin Jarvis, Peter Dennis, Jim Norton and
4.5/5
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About this audiobook
An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:
Martin Jarvis as Lord Illingworth
Peter Dennis as Sir John Pontefract
Jim Norton as Mr. Kelvil, M.P.
Robert Machray as The Venerable Archdeacon Daubeny, D.D.
Paul Gutrecht as Gerald Arbuthnot
Miriam Margolyes as Lady Hunstanton
Jane Carr as Lady Caroline Pontefract
Judy Geeson as Lady Stutfield
Cherie Lunghi as Mrs. Allonby and Alice
Samantha Mathis as Miss Hester Worsley
Rosalind Ayres as Mrs. Arbuthnot
Includes an interview with Oscar Wilde’s only grandchild, Merlin Holland, who is also a noted biographer and editor of Wilde’s works.
Directed by Michael Hackett. Recorded before a live audience at the DoubleTree Suites, Santa Monica in November of 1995.
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish poet and playwright who rose to global fame in the 1880s as a larger-than-life public persona with plays such as The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband, and Lady Windermere's Fan. The author of countless brilliant epigrams that form part of our popular lexicon, he was sentenced to two years of hard labor in prison for having relations with men, which ruined his reputation and career. Upon his release he exiled himself in France, where he died penniless. Today Wilde is celebrated as a courageous crusader for free expression, gay love, and anyone oppressed by hypocritical conventions.
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Reviews for A Woman of No Importance
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A small gem of a drama. Oscar Wilde's perfect t use of language makes this play both witty and stinging. A mother maintains her dignity in the face of disgrace, and endears herself to her son while deflating his natural father's haughty condescension. Excellent!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Witty as only Oscar Wilde can write.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The book is all about purity. What somebody thinks about the same.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The title says it all. A condemnation of a society in which mistakes are never forgiven, in which souls are lost forever, for youthful indiscretion and surrender to one's emotions.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/54.5 stars
It was absolutely fantastic, hilarious, important and intelligent. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This was a really good read by Oscar Wilde. I love how the book started with the title "A Woman of No Importance" and ended with the sentence "A Man of No Importance." While I'm not in the mood to delve into the connotative meaning of the start and end of this masterpiece, the author did an excellent job of humorously communicating societal flaws in gender perception. However, I'll leave that analysis for another time.