The Happy Prince, and Other Tales
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- First published
- 1888
- Pages
- 57Digital editionReference edition
- Reading time
- About 1 hour3 half-hour sittings
- Language
- English
- Reading difficulty
- Not set
A little about the book
A swallow agrees to help a statue see to the needs of a city below it. The other tales in Wilde’s collection also put beauty and kindness in settings where neither brings a reliable reward.
These stories suit reading aloud, but the sound of the prose also carries irony an adaptation can lose. The shifts between formal narration and plain acts of generosity often give an ending its force.
Is it for you?
You’ll enjoy it if you like
- literary fairy tales
- stories about generosity
- read-aloud prose with bittersweet endings
Things You May Not Know About The Happy Prince, and Other Tales
- The collection includes The Selfish Giant.
- The Happy Prince asks the swallow to distribute parts of the statue’s decoration.
About this edition
This English edition comes from Project Gutenberg. The Freebookia PDF has 57 pages. The EPUB adjusts to your reading settings.
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