This edition features all of Oscar Wilde's short stories and fairy tales, including The Happy Prince, The Star Child and The Fisherman and his Soul!
Oscar Wilde's prose is absolutely lovely. The fairy tales and short stories have been written with imagination, elegance, sensitivity and honesty. Above all, they have been written with a great understanding of the deep pain which runs through the world and human life.
The fairy tales are not for children, or at least not for small children. I would give them to a child of about eleven. I think only The Selfish Giant can be read by a child smaller than this.
When I buy classic literature, I prefer to buy Oxford World's Classics (published by Oxford University Press). This is because the OUP editions are easier to use than other scholarly editions. The notes are very easy to find, there is a chronology of the author's life and of the period in which he/she is writing, and always a good introduction. Also, the covers are usually more tastefully chosen than those of other editions.
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I recommend Wilde's short stories to anyone interested in Victorian literature, in literature about beauty and in the fairy tale!
Have a great weekend, always with beauty and a good book! xxx
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