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The Happy Prince & Other Stories (Puffin Classics)

The Happy Prince & Other Stories (Puffin Classics)

by Lars Bo (Illustrator), Markus Zusak (Introduction), Markus Zusak (Introduction), Oscar Wilde (Author)

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    Paperback 2003

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    Paperback 1994

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    Hardcover 1995

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    Paperback 1993

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Synopsis

This book features nine haunting fairy tales: "The Happy Prince", "The Selfish Giant", "The Devoted Friend", "The Remarkable Rocket", "The Nightingale and the Rose", "The Young King", "The Birthday of the Infanta", "The Star Child", "The Fisherman and his Soul" - Oscar Wilde made up these very special fairy tales for his own children. They loved to hear about the happy prince who was not really as happy as he seemed, and the selfish giant who learned to love the little children he had once hated.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 224
 Edition: Reissue
 Publisher: Puffin Classics
Published: 30 Oct 2003
ISBN 10: 0140366911
ISBN 13: 9780140366914
Children’s book age: 7-9 Years

Media Reviews
'The Puffin Classics series is a perfect marriage of the old and the new. Enjoy some of the best books from the past and find out why and how they inspired some of the best writers of the present. - Julia Ecclesshare, Lovereading4kids' - Julia Eccleshare, Lovereading4kids
Author Bio
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. After his marriage to Constance Lloyd in 1884, he tried to establish himself as a writer, but with little initial success. However, his three volumes of short fiction, The Happy Prince (1888), Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (1891) and A House of Pomegranates (1891), together with his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), gradually won him a reputation as a modern writer with an original talent, a reputation confirmed and enhanced by the phenomenal success of his Society Comedies -- Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, all performed on the West End stage between 1892 and 1895. Success, however, was short-lived. In 1891 Wilde had met and fallen in love with Lord Alfred Douglas. In 1895, when his success as a dramatist was at its height, Wilde brought an unsuccessful libel action against Douglas's father, the Marquess of Queensberry. Wilde lost the case and two trials later was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for acts of gross indecency. As a result of this experience he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol. He was released from prison in 1897 and went into an immediate self-imposed exile on the Continent. He died in Paris in ignominy in 1900.