The Happy Prince and Other Tales

Oscar Wilde

Hachette India, Feb 10, 2013 - Fiction - 89 pages

Oscar Wilde is at his imaginative best in this wonderful collection of fairy tales.

The five stories include ‘The Happy Prince’, ‘The Selfish Giant’, ‘The Nightingale and the Rose’, and ‘The Devoted Friend’ and ‘The Remarkable Rocket’. The stories have become popular classics and adapted in all kinds of audio-visual media. The stories about unhappy princes, mean giants, a sacrificing nightingale, a devoted friend and a self important fire cracker, have become material for bedtime tales. And at each story’s heart lies a simple lesson in an important human value.

About the author

Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854–1900) was an Irish poet, playwright, essayist and novelist. He was one of London’s most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his witty quotes, humorous plays and novels. Wilde was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and Magdalen College, Oxford where he was involved in the aestheticism movement. His novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) and the comic plays, Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), were his most famous works. In 1895, Wilde was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment and thereafter he faded from the public eye. He died in Paris in 1900.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Happy Prince and Other Tales
• Author: Oscar Wilde
• Publisher: Hachette India, 2013
• ISBN: 9350096587, 9789350096581
• Length: 89 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Classics