The Happy Prince, and other Tales

The Happy Prince and Other Tales(1888) is an enormously popular collection of classic short stories from Oscar Wilde. This timeless volume, enthralling both adults and children since its publication, includes five delightful stories and features The Selfish Giant one of the most beloved fairy tales in all of literature.

About the author

Oscar Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for "gross indecency", imprisonment, and early death at age 46.
Wilde's parents were successful Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. Their son became fluent in French and German early in life. At university, Wilde read Greats; he proved himself to be an outstanding classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Oxford. He became known for his involvement in the rising philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles.

Product details

• Authors: Oscar Wilde
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 5
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2020
• EAN: 9781513266725
• ISBN: 978-1-5132-6672-5
• No. of pages: 46
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 203 mm x 5 mm
• Weight: 60 g
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Series: Mint Editions; Mint Editions—The Children's Library; Mint Editions (The Children's Library)
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Story books, fairytales, sagas, rhymes, songs; JUVENILE FICTION / Fairy Tales & Folklore / General, JUVENILE FICTION / Legends, Myths, Fables / General, JUVENILE FICTION / Short Stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Traditional stories, Short stories (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Short stories, Children’s / Teenage category fiction, friendship;love;generosity;courtiers;swallow;, generosity; love; swallow; courtiers; friendship