Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (Penguin Audiobooks) [Audiobook] [Audio Cassette]

Oscar Wilde (Author), John Moffatt (Contributor)

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Publication Date: December 1, 1997 | Series: Penguin Audiobooks

When a fortune-teller takes Lord Arthur Savile's hand, he is shaken by the vision of something too frightful to relate. Can that mystery be a murder? And if so, whose? Also included are three other tales: "The Sphinx Without a Secret", "The Canterville Ghost" and "The Model Millionaire".

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Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Penguin Audio (December 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0140863613
• ISBN-13: 978-0140863611
• Product Dimensions: 20 x 20 x 20 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Typically Charming Offbeat Wilde Story, March 13, 2005

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Gary Selikow (Great Kush) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (Collins English Library) (Hardcover)

A humorous story published as part of a collection of stories by Wilde in 1891: Lord Arthur Saville's Crime and Other Stories .

At Lady Windermere's final reception before Easter, at Bentinck House, Lady Windermere's chiromantist, Mr. Podgers is quite a hit, telling people about themselves and their fortunes.

The chiromantist tells one Lord Arthur Saville that before he can marry his beloved, he must murder a distant relative. What follows is a hilarious account of Lord Saville's various failed attempts through poison , explosives etc to do the deed, before in despair , he rather murders Mr. Podgers himself.

A typically charming offbeat Wilde story with a twist in the tale

8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Don't believe superficial certainties, May 22, 2003

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Jacques COULARDEAU "A soul doctor, so to say" (OLLIERGUES France) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (Nelson English Readers Library) (Paperback)

Lord Saville one night listens to a chiromantist who tells him he has to commit a crime, whose victim is supposed to be a relative of some kind, before being able to marry his love. The tale is full of humor and shows how he fails, systematically, in his enterprise, because he believes the soothsayer. But the more humoristic the tale becomes, the more desperate Lord Saville grows. Till one night he kills the chiromantist. He has finally been able to rebel against the prediction and this rebellion proves the prediction is a fake. But a second dimension appears in the tale. The chiromantist had been introduced to Lord Saville by some woman who invites such oddities to her parties to amuse the audience. She behaves as if she believed in those ominous birds that she calls lions. And Lord Saville was naive enough to accept this prediction as true and unescapable because it had been introduced to him by this particular woman, in this particular situation. Men must not fall in the traps of social tricks that some women hire to give some life to their social evenings that would be very dull otherwise. Who is wiser? The woman who "animates" her social gatherings with such attractions? Or the man who falls in the trap of believing such predictions? The other tales of the collection are all just as funny by showing how some people are able to go beyond such appearances and reach another level of being that is some kind of game and it becomes a trap to the gullible ones.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University of Perpignan

2.0 out of 5 stars Not his best work, January 1, 2012

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This review is from: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories (Kindle Edition)

i usually find Oscar Wilde's stuff to be delightfully witty and wise. Parts of this were excellent, very much up to his usual standard, but most of this book was pretty forgettable.