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Children’s Stories

by Oscar Wilde

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First published: 1888
Pages: 119

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The Happy Prince
21:58
The Nightingale and the Rose
14:21
The Selfish Giant
9:59
The Devoted Friend
26:07
The Remarkable Rocket
29:13

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Published in 1888, this gathering of five tales showed that Oscar Wilde could write for children while still speaking to adults. A jewelled statue and a small swallow give away everything they have to the city's poor. A nightingale presses her heart against a thorn so a student can win a red rose. A selfish giant learns what his walled garden has cost him. Wilde borrowed the shape of the fairy tale from Hans Christian Andersen but filled it with his own themes of sacrifice, vanity, and the price of love. The stories are tender and quietly sad, and they have never stopped being read aloud.

About the author

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s.