Oscar Wilde Audio

The American Minister and his family have bought the English stately home Canterville Chase, complete with the ghost of Sir Simon de Canterville...

Oscar Wilde was a prolific and spontaneous storyteller who once declared, “I cannot think otherwise than in stories.”

This is a collection of poems, old and modern, by an assortment of Irish, Scottish, and Welsh poets...

The vengeful dead, premonition, ghosts, pacts with the devil and a strange madness - these are the themes of this collection of chilling tales, written by some of the great names in English literature and masters of the genre.

The Irish have always had a knack for telling wonderful stories, and their fantastic ability has been recognized from early Gaelic times.

Whether it's a 300-year-old ghost who's scared out of his wits, a tenderhearted statue with a mission...

This short work of Wilde's was written during his two year incarceration for "gross indecency". This work is a letter which sorts out his life, and his love toward Lord Alfred Douglas. Wilde wrote this as a farewell letter to Douglas.

The meaning of friendship is explained in the recounting to the Water Rat of the tale of the Miller and Little Hans.

Studies in prose... meant partly for children, and partly for those who have kept the childlike faculties of wonder and joy, and who find in simplicity a subtle strangeness.

“...Swallow, Swallow, little Swallow. Stay with me one night longer”