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The Nightingale and the Rose (Story Time, Episode 201)
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- Author
- Oscar Wilde
- Narrator
- Mark Young
- Publisher
- Lauscher Audiobooks
- Publish Date
- 22 January 2026
- Run Time
- 13 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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- Author
- Oscar Wilde
- Narrator
- Mark Young
- Duration
- 13 minutes
- Release Date
- 22 January 2026
- ISBN
- 9783711954367
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Lauscher Audiobooks
- Genre
- Traditional or cultural fiction and true stories, tales and retellings
Synopsis
A nightingale overhears a student complaining that the professor's daughter will not dance with him, as he is unable to give her a red rose;] a lizard, a butterfly and a daisy laugh at the student for doing so. The nightingale visits all the rose-trees in the garden, and one of the roses tells her there is a way to produce a red rose, but only if the nightingale is prepared to sing the sweetest song for the rose all night with her heart pressing into a thorn, sacrificing her life.
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