The Happy Prince and Other Tales

The Happy Prince and Other Fairy Tales ( The Happy Prince and Other Stories ) is a notice published in the 1888 collection of five literary fairy tale by Irish writer Oscar Wilde. Wilde's first collection of fairy tales was also his first prose work. The first edition contained illustrations by Walter Crane.

Sorrow, suffering, compassion and selfishness are all the stories in the collection are common themes. The fairy tales are written in a decorative and sensual style, which has a seemingly simple content.

Content

  • The Happy Prince ( The Happy Prince) is the title tale and told by a very precious, adorned with gold and precious stones monument figure. This is so moved by the plight of the city that she asks a swallow to distribute their wealth among the poor people. After the statue has become unsightly, it is replaced by a statue of the mayor and an angel bring the soul of the swallow and their authority in the Garden of Eden.
  • The Nightingale and the Rose ( The Nightingale and the Rose) is about a student who is looking for the schönstmögliche Rose his love and a nightingale finds that the rose can bloom with their blood for him. When the student is, however, disappointed by love, he throws the rose away carelessly.
  • The Selfish Giant ( The Selfish Giant) is about a giant who prohibits selfishness all children to enter his garden. God's anger over the fact of the giant leaves in the garden reign a perpetual winter until one day a couple of kids slip into the garden and the flower within these and the giant heart. A child has stigmata on the hands and feet.
  • The devoted friend (The Devoted Friend) is the story of Hans helpful, even the night goes for the selfish Müller into the bog, but drowned there.
  • The major missile ( The Remarkable Rocket ) tells of a narcissistic fireworks erupting to demonstrate his sensitivity in tears, but it is so wet that it will not ignite and is finally discarded.

Swell

  • Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, HarperCollins Publishers 2003
  • Kindler's Literatur Lexikon, ed by Heinz Ludwig Arnold, Metzler 2009

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)

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 )

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