The Happy Prince And Other Stories
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the heart of one of literature's most beloved collections stands a gilded statue with a leaden heart — the Happy Prince — whose tears of gold fall upon the misery of a cold city, aided only by a devoted little swallow too kind to fly south for the winter. Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince and Other Stories is a masterwork of the fairy tale form, gathering five of his finest short stories — including The Nightingale and the Rose, The Selfish Giant, The Devoted Friend, and The Remarkable Rocket — each one a miniature world of beauty, sacrifice, and biting social satire rendered in luminous, jewel-like prose. Wilde's genius lies in his ability to inhabit two registers simultaneously: these tales enchant children with their talking birds and magical statues while delivering, to the adult reader, a devastating critique of vanity, class, and the cruel indifference of society to suffering. Writing in the tradition of Hans Christian Andersen yet stamped indelibly with his own paradoxical wit, Wilde illustrates how true goodness is systematically overlooked by a world obsessed with appearances. First published in 1888, this collection remains as urgent and as heartbreaking as ever — a reminder that the most radical act in a cynical world is simply to be kind.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the heart of one of literature's most beloved collections stands a gilded statue with a leaden heart — the Happy Prince — whose tears of gold fall upon the misery of a cold city, aided only by a devoted little swallow too kind to fly south for the winter. Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince and Other Stories is a masterwork of the fairy tale form, gathering five of his finest short stories — including The Nightingale and the Rose, The Selfish Giant, The Devoted Friend, and The Remarkable Rocket — each one a miniature world of beauty, sacrifice, and biting social satire rendered in luminous, jewel-like prose. Wilde's genius lies in his ability to inhabit two registers simultaneously: these tales enchant children with their talking birds and magical statues while delivering, to the adult reader, a devastating critique of vanity, class, and the cruel indifference of society to suffering. Writing in the tradition of Hans Christian Andersen yet stamped indelibly with his own paradoxical wit, Wilde illustrates how true goodness is systematically overlooked by a world obsessed with appearances. First published in 1888, this collection remains as urgent and as heartbreaking as ever — a reminder that the most radical act in a cynical world is simply to be kind.