Book description
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.
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.
