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WILDE, O.: Importance of Being Earnest (The) (1952) / GIELGUD, John: Selected Poetry Readings (Unabridged)

WILDE, O.: Importance of Being Earnest (The) (1952) / GIELGUD, John: Selected Poetry Readings (Unabridged)


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Disc 1
Wilde, Oscar - author(s)
The Importance of Being Earnest 01:26:58
1 Introduction 00:00:27
2 Act I: Algernon: Did you hear what I was playing, Lane? 00:01:49
3 Act I: Algernon: How are you, my dear Ernest? 00:08:29
4 Act I: Lady Bracknell: Good afternoon, dear Algernon 00:03:34
5 Act I: Jack: Charming day it has been, Miss Fairfax 00:03:33
6 Act I: Lady Bracknell: Mr Worthing! 00:06:55
7 Act I: Algernon: Didn't it go off all right, old boy? 00:02:14
8 Act I: Lane: Miss Fairfax 00:01:21
9 Act I: Algernon: A glass of sherry, Lane 00:00:25
10 Act II: Miss Prism: Cecily, Cecily! 00:02:51
11 Act II: Chasuble: And how are we this morning? 00:01:22
12 Act II: Cecily: What is it Merriman? 00:00:45
13 Act II: Cecily: He does! 00:03:56
14 Act II: Miss Prism: Mr. Worthing! And in black! 00:03:33
15 Act II: Cecily: Uncle Jack! I am pleased to see you back 00:00:50
16 Act II: Jack: Good heavens! Algy 00:01:31
17 Act II: Merriman: I have put Mr Worthing's things in the room next to yours, Sir 00:01:13
18 Act II: Algernon: I must see her before I go... 00:07:08
19 Act II: Cecily: Pray let me introduce myself to you 00:06:46
20 Act II: Gwendolen: Ernest! My own Ernest! 00:00:32
21 Act II: Cecily: Here is Ernest 00:06:18

Disc 2
Wilde, Oscar - author(s)
The Importance of Being Earnest 01:26:58
1 Act III: Gwendolen: The fact that they did not follow us at once... 00:00:34
2 Act III: Gwendolen: This dignified silence seems to produce an unpleasant effect 00:01:50
3 Act III: Merriman: Lady Bracknell 00:09:55
4 Act III: Chasuble: Everything is quite ready for the christenings 00:01:43
5 Act III: Miss Prism: I was told you expected me in the vestry, dear Canon 00:02:22
6 Act III: Jack: Is this the hand-bag, Miss Prism? 00:05:02
Waller, Edmund - author(s)
7 Go lovely Rose 00:00:59
Anonymous - author(s)
8 Since First I Saw Your Face 00:01:00
Shakespeare, William - author(s)
9 Shall I compare thee to a summer's day 00:00:57
Jonson, Ben - author(s)
10 The Triumph 00:01:33
Shakespeare, William - author(s)
11 That time of year thou mayest in me behold 00:01:03
Shelley, Percy Bysshe - author(s)
12 Ode to the West Wind 00:04:36
Shelley, Percy Bysshe - author(s)
13 Ozymandias 00:01:07
Donne, John - author(s)
14 Death Be Not Proud 00:01:00
Byron, Lord (George Gordon Byron) - author(s)
15 We'll go no more a-roving 00:00:28
Kingsley, Charles - author(s)
16 Young and Old 00:00:44
Rossetti, Christina - author(s)
17 A Birthday 00:00:44
Morris, William - author(s)
18 Summer Dawn 00:00:57
Tennyson, Alfred - author(s)
19 Break, Break, Break 00:00:58
Bridges, Robert Seymour - author(s)
20 The Storm is Over 00:02:45
Shakespeare, William - author(s)
21 Richard II: This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle 00:03:13