The Happy Prince and Other Tales - (Everyman's Library Children's Classics) by Oscar Wilde (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A beautiful, golden, jewel-studded statue and a little swallow give all they have to help the poor.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>A pleasure seeking prince, a selfish giant, and more: Wilde's fairy tales, first published in 1888, for childlike people from eighteen to eighty."<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was born in Dublin, the second son of charismatic parents, his father a surgeon, his mother a poet. Ungainly and awkward as a child, he won an open scholarship to Trinity College, Dublin, and went from there to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he took a First in Greats, won the Newdigate Prize for Poetry and announced that 'Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, notorious'. In London he set about establishing himself as a poet and wit, and when Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera <i>Patience</i> toured the USA in 1882 he was invited to give a speech before every performance so that American audiences could recognize the 'perfectly precious young aesthete' satirized in the character of Bunthorne. This brought him both celebrity and money, and in 1884 he married Constance Lloyd, by whom he had two sons.He began writing fairy tales while working as editor of <i>The Lady's World</i>, and <i>The Happy Prince</i> was published in 1888. His first play, Vera, had been a failure, but in 1892 <i>Lady Windermere's Fan</i> was staged with great success. This was swiftly followed by three other enomously successful comedies, the most famous being <i>The Importance of Being Earnest </i>(1895). Wilde died in France, aged only 46. His plays remain as popular today as ever before.Although he read his fairy stories to his two young sons, he claimed they were ' . . . not for children, but for childlike people from eighteen to eighty'.
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