A House of Pomegranates

A pomegranate House ( A House of Pomegranates ) is a published in 1891 collection of literary fairy tales of ethnic Irish writer Oscar Wilde. It is his second collection of fairy tales by The Happy Prince and Other Fairy Tales ( 1888). The first edition appeared in London publishing Osgood McIlvaine and contained illustrations by Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon.

The stories are about love, youthful beauty, compassion and suffering.

Content

  • The young king ( The Young King) is a socially critical fairy tale in which the young king, who grew up among the shepherds, his wealth is tired and is stylized in the end to a Christ the same figure.
  • The Birthday of the Infanta ( The Birthday of the Infanta ) tells of a dwarf who is made a king's daughter as a gift and dies, as he understands that he is not loved, but just a fun pastime.
  • The fisherman and his soul ( The Fisherman and his Soul ) is about the beauty as temptation and attacks alike and Teufelspakt motifs: The fisherman gets rid of his soul, to live under the water with his beloved mermaid.
  • The Star-Child (The Star -Child ) is the story of a beautiful but cruel foundling, though it be tried in slavery and is finally crowned king.

Output

Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, HarperCollins Publishers 2003

The Picture of Dorian Gray ( The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1890)

  • Lord Arthur Saviles Crime and Other Stories (1887 )
  • The Happy Prince and Other Fairy Tales ( The Happy Prince and Other Tales, 1888)
  • A pomegranate House ( A House of Pomegranates, 1891)

The portrait of Mr. WH ( The Portrait of Mr. WH, 1889) |

Ravenna (1878 ) | Poems (1881 ) | The Sphinx (1894 ) | Poems in Prose (1894 ) | The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898 )

Vera, or the Nihilists (Vera, or the Nihilists, 1880) | Lady Windermere's Fan (Lady Windermere 's Fan, 1892) | The Duchess of Padua ( The Duchess of Padua, 1893) | A Woman of No Importance ( A Woman of No Importance, 1893 ) | is its Bunbury or the importance of his / Ernst Earnest ( the Importance of Being Earnest, about 1895) | | An Ideal Husband ( An Ideal Husband, 1894 ) | Salomé (1891 ) the pious courtesan (La Sainte courtesan, fragment ) | A Florentine Tragedy (A Florentine tragedy, fragment)

The beginnings of historical criticism ( The Rise of Historical Criticism, 1878 /79) | The Truth of Masks ( The Truth of Masks, 1885) | The Decay of Lying (The Decay of Lying, 1889) | Pen, brush and poison (Pen, Pencil and Poison, 1889) | the Critic as artist ( the Critic as artist, 1890) | socialism and the soul of man ( the Soul of man under socialism, 1891 ) | De Profundis (1897 )

  • Literary work
  • Fairy tale
  • Literature ( English )
  • Literature (19th century)
  • Work of Oscar Wilde
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime The Sphinx Without a Secret The Happy Prince and Other Tales#.22The Nightingale and the Rose.22 Salome (play) De Profundis (letter)
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