by Oscar Wilde · Lumen · tapa dura · ISBN 9788426430021
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«El gigante egoísta» is Oscar Wilde's fairy tale published by Lumen in hardback (116 pages, in Spanish).
Children's story in which a giant prevents children from playing in his garden and, as a result, winter sets in permanently. When he understands his selfishness and allows them to return, the garden recovers its life and the protagonist discovers the value of generosity and affection.
The tale appeared in 1888 in The Happy Prince and Other Tales. This 1989 Lumen edition belongs to the Grandes Autores collection (no. 2) and includes illustrations by Xavier Grau.
For children and young readers, especially as a first approach to Oscar Wilde's classic tales.
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in the emerging Aestheticism movement of the late 19th century and is widely regarded as the greatest playwright of the Victorian era. Wilde is best known for his Gothic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), his epigrams, plays and bedtime stories for children, as well as his criminal conviction in 1895 for gross indecency and for practicing homosexual acts.
