I have recorded an audiobook of Robert Sherard's last work about Oscar Wilde: Oscar Wilde Twice Defended. In this short book, Sherard responds to other Wildean biographers, including André Gide and Frank Harris, a task he describes as "shooing hyenas away from the graves of the illustrious dead".
By this point in his career, Sherard was a lot less worried about what other people might think of him than he seemed to have been before. In his previous three books about Wilde, he was rather circumspect. Here, you can feel the anger in every word.
Listen for free at Legamus.eu, but only if you are in a country with a Life+70 copyright law. Check the laws in your own country. In short: you can listen legally in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, but not the USA (Americans can listen legally from 1st January 2030).
This recording ends my 5+ year project to record all of Sherard's books about Wilde. You can download the first four (which are in the public domain in the US and many other countries) here: Robert Sherard on LibriVox.
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