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Title: The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde ISBN: 0-679-44473-4 Publisher: Unknown Publisher - Being Researched Pub. Date: 10 October, 1995 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: There is always some salvation
Comment: In these tales, most of them being sad and even very sad, Oscar Wilde looks for a way to save one's soul in front of the misery of the world. Anyone in society who lives in the upper classes does not necessarily see the ugliness and suffering of the world when one looks at the lower classes. But in these tales the Happy Prince, or the Selfish Giant, or any other character will manage to get salvation out of their upper class blindness, by opening their eyes to misery and suffering and by doing what they can to repair these pains and evils because they will realise they have to feel responsible for the world, because they are more powerful and could easily impose their selfish rule. But the giant will discover nature, if not God, punishes him for his selfishness. The nightingale will try to redeem a young student by giving him a red rose in a season when read roses do not bloom. And yet the student will not get the love he wants because he is nothing but a non-entity for the girl he would like to be loved by. There is also a very sad note in A Devoted Friend and how friendship can become a mask for selfishness, a nice appearance for an ugly and egoistic attitude. Those tales are sad and at the same time they convey a moral full of hope. All is not lost if the Happy Prince can give away his happiness for those who suffer, even if later the powerful of his society will reject him when he does not look happy and beautiful any more
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University of Perpignan
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent beyond compare!!!!
Comment: As a child I didn't have the books of Oscar Wilde but rather the records. My imagination soared with his descriptions of life, and my eyes overflowed with tears at each story. The record of the Happy Prince was read by Bing Crosby and Orson Wells and each year at Christmas we still play that old scratched thing, just to hear it's wonderous love story and that of The Selfish Giant. Now I have to get the book so my nieces and nephews will share in my treasures of love!!!! What is this world if it isn't all about Love?
Rating: 5
Summary: wonderfully fanciful
Comment: I remember this book from my childhood. I had my parents read each story to me over and over. When I learned how to read I read this book until the pages fell out. In short it is a great book that encourages youthful imaginations. And, it makes for great bedtime stories. A real classic. I bought it for my children.
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Title: The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde ISBN: 0517220091 Publisher: Derrydale Pub. Date: 16 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde, Jack Zipes ISBN: 0451524357 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: May, 1996 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling ISBN: 0812504690 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 15 February, 1992 List Price(USD): $2.99 |
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Title: The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde ISBN: 0486264785 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 July, 1990 List Price(USD): $1.00 |
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Title: HAPPY PRINCE by Wilde/young ISBN: 0671677543 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Pub. Date: 01 June, 1989 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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