by Oscar Wilde · Puffin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140350500
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«The Happy Prince and Other Stories» is a collection of fairy tales by Oscar Wilde, published by Puffin Classics in paperback (192 pages, in English).
The tales Oscar Wilde wrote for his children move between fantasy and reflection: a gilded prince gazes from his statue at the city's poverty, a giant discovers generosity by sharing his garden, and a nightingale gives its song to stain a white rose red. They are stories of poetic prose, irony and a melancholy tone.
This edition from the Puffin Classics collection, published in 1985, brings together nine tales and includes an introduction by Michael MacLiammoir and illustrations by Lars Bo.
Aimed at a child and young adult audience, though its poetic prose and irony also connect with adults who love classic fairy 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.
