The Happy Prince and Other Stories - Couverture souple

Wilde, Oscar

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140621377 ISBN 13 : 9780140621372

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 1994

Synopsis

London. 18 cm. 204 p. : ill. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Idioma Inglés. Penguin popular classics. Contents The happy prince. --The selfish giant. --The devoted friend. --The remarkable rocket. --The nightingale and the rose. --The young king. --The birthday of the infanta. --The star-child. --The fisherman and his soul .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 0140621377; 9780140621372

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. After his marriage to Constance Lloyd in 1884, he tried to establish himself as a writer, but with little initial success. However, his three volumes of short fiction, The Happy Prince (1888), Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (1891) and A House of Pomegranates (1891), together with his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), gradually won him a reputation as a modern writer with an original talent, a reputation confirmed and enhanced by the phenomenal success of his Society Comedies – Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, all performed on the West End stage between 1892 and 1895. Success, however, was short-lived. In 1891 Wilde had met and fallen in love with Lord Alfred Douglas. In 1895, when his success as a dramatist was at its height, Wilde brought an unsuccessful libel action against Douglas's father, the Marquess of Queensberry. Wilde lost the case and two trials later was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for acts of gross indecency. As a result of this experience he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol. He was released from prison in 1897 and went into an immediate self-imposed exile on the Continent. He died in Paris in ignominy in 1900.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

These special fairy tales, which Oscar Wilde made up for his own sons, include 'The Happy Prince', who was not as happy as he seemed; 'The Selfish Giant', who learned to love little children; 'The Star Child', who suffered bitter trials when he rejected his parents. . . . Often whimsical and sometimes sad, they all shine with poetry and magic.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0140621377
• ISBN 13: 9780140621372
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Illustrateur: Bo Lars