ISBN: 9781405264235    Publisher: Egmont Books (UK) Year of publishing: 2014     Format:  Hardcover No of Pages: 96        Language: English

Five stories collected together to show Oscar Wilde at his best moving witty and wise. And the Giant's heart melted as he looked out. 'How selfish I have been!' he said ' ...I will knock down the wall and my garden shall be the children's playground for ever and ever.' In The Happy Prince a grand but lonely statue recruits a swallow to help him give to people in need In The Nightingale and the Rose a small bird makes a great sacrifice for love The Selfish Giant is a beautiful story of the triumph of kindness The Devoted Friend is a morality tale told to a pompous water rat and The Remarkable Rocket charts the rise and fall of a particularly arrogant firework at a royal wedding. A fantastic addition to the Egmont Heritage range this collection of Oscar Wilde stories represents the very best in children's literature. This book features the sumptuous artwork of Charles Robinson renowned illustrator of fairy tales.
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The Irish writer and poet Oscar Wilde was born in 1854. After university at Dublin and Oxford Wilde moved to London. He wrote his only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray in 1890 and by the early 1890s he was one of London's most popular playwrights penning The Importance of Being Ernest the play for which he is best known in 1895. His last work The Ballad of Reading Gaol was written in 1898. He died in Paris aged forty-six.
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