The happy prince and other fairy tales

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Title page of the first edition from 1888

The Happy Prince and Other Tales ( English The Happy Prince and Other Tales ) is a collection of five fairy tales by the Irish writer Oscar Wilde , published in 1888 . Wilde's first collection of fairy tales was also his first prose work. The first edition contained illustrations by Walter Crane .

Suffering, compassion, and selfishness are the themes common to all of the narratives in the collection. The fairy tales are written in an ornamental and sensual style, which has a seemingly simple content.

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  • The Happy Prince ( The Happy Prince ) is the title story and tells of a very precious memorial figure adorned with gold and precious stones. She is so touched by the misery of the city that she asks a swallow to distribute her wealth among the poor. After the statue has become unsightly, it is replaced by a statue of the mayor and an angel brings the soul of the swallow and its client to the paradise garden.
  • The Nightingale and the Rose ( The Nightingale and the Rose ) is about a student who seeks the schönstmögliche rose for his sweetheart and finds a nightingale, which can bloom for him the rose with their lifeblood. However, when the student is disappointed in love, he carelessly throws the rose away.
  • The Selfish Giant ( The Selfish Giant ) is the banning of selfishness all children from a giant to enter his garden. God's anger over the deed of the giant makes the garden an eternal winter, until one day a few children slip into the garden and let them and the giant's heart blossom. A child has wounds on his hands and feet.
  • The devoted friend ( The Devoted Friend ), but drowns the history of helpful Hans, who even goes for selfish Müller night the moor there.
  • The significant rocket ( The Remarkable Rocket ) tells of a self-loving fireworks that burst into tears to demonstrate its sensitivity, but gets so wet that it no longer ignites and is finally thrown away.

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Works by Oscar Wilde


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The Picture of Dorian Gray ( The Picture of Dorian Gray , 1890)

Collections
  • Lord Arthur Saviles Crime and Other Stories  (1887)
Lord Arthur Savile crimes ( Lord Arthur Savile's Crime ) | The Canterville Ghost ( The Canterville Ghost ) | The Sphinx without a Secret ( The Sphinx without a Secret ) | The Model Millionaire ( The Model Millionaire )
The Happy Prince ( The Happy Prince ) | The Nightingale and the Rose ( The Nightingale and the Rose ) | The Selfish Giant ( The Selfish Giant ) | The devoted friend ( The Devoted Friend ) | The remarkable rocket ( The Remarkable Rocket )
The boy king ( The Young King ) | The Birthday of the Infanta ( The Birthday of the Infanta ) | The fisherman and his soul ( The Fisherman and his Soul ) | The Star Child ( The Star-Child )
Short stories

The portrait of Mr. WH ( The Portrait of Mr. W. H. , 1889) |

Poems

Ravenna (1878) | Poems (1881) | The Sphinx (1894) | Poems in Prose (1894) | The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)

Stage works

Vera, or the Nihilists ( Vera, or the Nihilists , 1880) | Lady Windermeres Fan ( Lady Windermere's Fan , 1892) | The Duchess of Padua ( The Duchess of Padua , 1893) | A Woman of No Importance ( A Woman of No Importance , 1893) | An Ideal Husband ( An Ideal Husband , 1894) | Salomé (1891) | Bunbury or the importance of being serious / being serious is everything ( The Importance of Being Earnest , circa 1895) | The pious courtesan ( La Sainte Courtisane , fragment) | A Florentine Tragedy ( A Florentine Tragedy , fragment)

Essays

The beginnings of historical criticism ( The Rise of Historical Criticism , 1878/79) | The Truth of Masks ( The Truth of Masks , 1885) | The Decay of Lying ( The Decay of Lying , 1889) | Pen, Brush and Poison ( Pen, Pencil and Poison , 1889) | The Critic As Artist ( The Critic as Artist , 1890) | The soul of man under socialism ( The Soul of Man under Socialism , 1891) | De Profundis (1897)