Book description
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…
Why read it?
1 author picked The Happy Prince and Other Stories as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
One of the few books that moved me to tears when it was read to me as a child, and moved me to tears again when reading it as an adult to my children.
The strange thing is that on both occasions, my responses came as a surprise to me when they really it should not have, as Wilde loves to push a reader's emotions as far as they can go, completely unashamed in his brazen use of sentimentality and pathos.
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