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The Happy Prince & Other Tales

By Oscar Wilde
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The Happy Prince & Other Tales by Oscar Wilde is a collection of whimsical and poignant fairy tales. It features stories about statues, nightingales, and other creatures, exploring themes of selflessness, beauty, and the nature of true happiness. Each tale combines Wilde's trademark wit with moral lessons, blending fantasy with reflections on society.
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You might enjoy this collection of enchanting stories if you appreciate timeless tales that weave together themes of compassion, sacrifice, and the beauty of kindness. Each story is filled with Wilde's poetic prose and offers a whimsical, yet profound, exploration of human nature and morality.

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The Happy Prince & Other Tales

Oscar Wilde's children's stories explore timeless themes of good and evil, freedom and responsibility, love and death, beauty and self-sacrifice. This beautiful collectors' edition with original watercolour illustrations and decorative motifs by Charles Robinson and an introduction by Michele Mendelssohn will delight adults and children alike.

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Oscar Wilde's children's stories explore timeless themes of good and evil, freedom and responsibility, love and death, beauty and self-sacrifice. Featuring princesses, ogres, and talking animals, the questions they pose are as pertinent now as they were at the turn of the century.

The Happy Prince poses the question, what is love? The Nightingale and the Rose asks, how do you get what you need? The Selfish Giant explores, how do you win friends (and avoid alienating people)? The Devoted Friend contemplates, can you have too much compassion? The Remarkable Rocket inquires, how can you set the world on fire?

Wilde's stories have given pleasure to generations of readers. By turns moving and funny, they gently teach free thinking rather than giving prescriptive lessons.

This beautiful collectors' edition, with original watercolour illustrations and decorative motifs from the 1913 edition by Charles Robinson and an introduction by Wilde expert Michele Mendelssohn, is certain to surprise and delight adults and children alike.

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The Happy Prince & Other Tales by Oscar Wilde is celebrated for its timeless storytelling and the charming yet poignant narratives within. Readers particularly appreciate Wilde's mastery in crafting moral tales with rich symbolism and delightful prose. The stories carry deep emotional resonance, often highlighting themes of compassion, sacrifice, and the stark contrasts between beauty and ugliness in human nature.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781851245994

Publisher: Bodleian Library

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 14 October 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bodleian Library

Illustration: 5 Illustrations, black and white; 12 Plates, color

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Charles Robinson
  • Introduction by Michèle Mendelssohn

Audience: General / adult, Children, Teenage

DIMENSIONS

Width: 170.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 434g

Pages: 96

Collections

Children’s, Teenage and Educational Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Oscar Wilde Young Adult

About the Author

Oscar Wilde (18541900) was a playwright, novelist and poet associated with the Aesthetic movement.

Michele Mendelssohn is Professor of English and American Literature at Oxford University. Her acclaimed biography, Making Oscar Wilde, was a Sunday Times Book of the Year, a PEN America Biography Prize semi-finalist, a Polari Prize finalist and a Biographers' Club Slightly Foxed Prize finalist.

Charles Robinson (18701937) was a ground-breaking illustrator of children's books, influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement.

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