The Happy Prince and Other Tales - Oscar Wilde Reviews

These fairy tales are far from light reading and those who know Wilde only from his comedies will be left surprised and moved. Anyone who has seen the film Wilde will have heard the Selfish Giant, threaded through the film and following his downfall. As with much of his writing there is a religious allusion in this tale, but many more are ...

Life is kinda cool, you know: Sherbet lemons, and cherries; Hercule Poirot and The Magic Faraway Tree (Fanny, Dick and Co.); Eric Cantona and Andy Payton. Clouds, and coal fires, and pubs that smell nice; Cows and dogs, and butterscotch. Bread baking in an oven, Wimbledon in the summertime, long walks and seaside Donkey rides. Then there’s ...

I never really saw Oscar Wilde as a children’s author, sure a wit, a raconteur, an author, playwright and a notorious man about town but a children’s author no. I was given a book by my wife Oscar Wildes Stories for Children and I wasn’t sure. What immediately caught my eye was the beautiful illustrations by P.J Lynch, ...

Wilde wrote a collection of fairytales which are sometimes tacked onto collections of his writings, but are usually published independently, as children's books. I still find it hard to read 'The Happy Prince' without a little lump developing in my throat in the last paragraph.. (no, I'm not giving it away and telling you ...