The Happy Prince And Other Tales
by
Oscar Wilde
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Everyman's Library CHILDREN'S CLASSICS
ISBN-10
185715939X
ISBN-13
9781857159394
Publisher
Everyman
Imprint
Everyman's Library Children's Classics
Country of Manufacture
DE
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 7th, 1995
Print length
96 Pages
Weight
246 grams
Dimensions
21.10 x 15.80 x 1.20 cms
Product Classification:
Classic fiction (Children's / Teenage)Traditional stories (Children's / Teenage)
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Since then the stories have been constantly reprinted and, despite the author's disclaimer, children have made the tales their own, a particular favourite being 'The Selfish Giant' - the highly moral story of the giant who banished children from his garden, so that spring never came.
The five original fairy tales included in this volume were first published by Davis Nutt in 1888. Although it is said that Wilde wrote them for his two young sons, the author himself claimed they were ''. . . . not for children, but for childlike people from eighteen to eighty''. Since then the stories have been constantly reprinted and, despite the author''s disclaimer, children have made the tales their own, a particular favourite being ''The Selfish Giant'' - the highly moral story of the giant who banished children from his garden, so that spring never came. Charles Robinson, who produced the illustrations for a special edition first published in 1913, brought to the book a feeliong for its innate sadness that exactly fits the poetry of Wilde''s text.
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