![]() ![]() (Summary by Noel Badrian)įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit. It contains five stories: 'The Happy Prince,' 'The Nightingale and the Rose,' 'The Selfish Giant,' 'The Devoted Friend,' and ' The Remarkable Rocket. The Remarkable Rocket is also a tale about egotism and conceit. The Happy Prince and Other Tales (or Stories) is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde first published in May 1888. ![]() The Miller in the Devoted Friend is not only selfish but an egotistical hypocrite. ![]() The Selfish Giant will not let the children in his garden but repents and is redeemed. In The Happy Prince and The Nightingale and the Rose, Wilde explores love and self sacrifice. Oscar Wilde said of his story The Happy Prince that it was "an attempt to treat a tragic modern problem in a form that aims at delicacy and imaginative treatment it is a reaction against the purely imitative character of modern art.” His Fairy Tales then were only partly written for children and as he said, "partly for those who have kept the childlike faculties of wonder and joy, and who find in simplicity a subtle strangeness". ![]() LibriVox recording of The Happy Prince and Other Tales (version 5) by Oscar Wilde. ![]()
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