Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde (Signet Classics)
by Oscar Wilde
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Author: Oscar WildeIntroduction: Gyles Brandreth
Afterword: Jack Zipes
Edition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-10-07
ISBN: 0451531078
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: Signet Classics
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Book Review: Happily Ever After?
Summary: 5 Stars
The fairytales of Oscar Wilde represent the very best of the genre. Any fairytale worth its salt will convey something to us about the human condition, and it will not be devoid of a moral point or two. What makes the reading of fairytales into a tedious enterprise in the long run is their all too predictable outcome: "and they all lived happily ever after." The facts of the human existence make it plain that this is not how things usually turn out. Lasting happiness is as rare as the blue rose; thwarted hopes and death, hypocrisy and injustice are the realities facing us each day, something of which Oscar Wilde never loses sight. Therefore, they do not always live happily ever after in Oscar Wilde's dark and gripping fairytales.
Summary of Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde (Signet Classics)
The master of wit and ironyPublished here alongside their evocative original illustrations, these fairy tales, as Oscar Wilde himself explained, were written ?partly for children, and partly for those who have kept the childlike faculties of wonder and joy.?
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