The Happy Prince & Other Stories by Oscar Wilde - ISBN: 9781509827824
Hardcover
Wilde’s wit and wonder: fairy tales, ghosts, and selfish giants.

The Happy Prince & Other Stories

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  • Hardcover

    304 pages

  • Release Date

    11 April 2017

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Summary

The richness of Oscar Wilde’s way with words and ideas is given full range in this sparkling collection of short stories written between 1887 and 1891.

From the comic tales of The Canterville Ghost and Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime to the marvelous fairy stories and fantasies of The Selfish Giant, The Happy Prince, and The Star Child, we are treated to the extravagance and dexterity of Wilde’s exceptional wit, in stories that will appeal to bo…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781509827824
ISBN-10:150982782X
Author:Oscar Wilde, David Stuart Davies
Publisher:Pan Macmillan
Imprint:Macmillan Collector's Library
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:304
Release Date:11 April 2017
Weight:182g
Dimensions:157mm x 102mm x 21mm
Series:Macmillan Collector's Library
About The Author

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. He studied there, at Trinity College, and then at Oxford, where he founded the cult of aestheticism. He published several books of stories, and one novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, in 1891. He had many successes as a playwright, first with Lady Windermere’s Fan in 1892, and all his plays were performed in London between 1892 and 1895. A dazzling wit and flamboyant figure, Wilde’s career was cut short after his homosexuality was exposed, and he was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment in 1895. Released in 1897, he fled to France where he died a broken man in 1900.

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