Profligate

By Arthur Wing Pinero · Running time 02:17:07 · Drama

Audio streams directly from the Internet Archive. Recording by LibriVox volunteers (public domain). The text is in the public domain in the USA; please check the copyright laws of your country.

About this book

'Mr. Pinero, in essaying to deal dramatically with a moral problem in a manner which, while neither cynical nor commonplace, should still be in touch with human sympathy and possible experience, appears to have deliberately set himself to conceive a group of characters, natural yet not ordinary, which should embody his ideals, and with a sufficient sense of actuality evolve the tragic recoil of sin, the dramatic pathos of innocence in contact with the irony of life, the exquisite influence of purity. Whether Mr. Pinero succeeded in carrying out his idea or not, even the severest of his critics

Description from the LibriVox catalogue.

Chapters and downloads on LibriVox →

More by Arthur Wing Pinero (31)

You might also like

• IrisArthur Wing Pinero · 04:10:02
• LettyArthur Wing Pinero · 04:33:56
• Lady BountifulArthur Wing Pinero · 03:29:15
• ThunderboltArthur Wing Pinero · 04:09:07
• Mid-ChannelArthur Wing Pinero · 03:53:18
• Amazons: A Farcical RomanceArthur Wing Pinero · 2:40:07
• SchoolmistressArthur Wing Pinero · 02:52:18
• Dandy DickArthur Wing Pinero · 2:43:36