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The Star-Child

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By (author): Oscar Wilde

Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.

With warmth, tenderness and quiet wit, Oscar Wilde's fables and fairy tales have moved and delighted for generations. In far-off kingdoms and ocean realms, in the company of giants and nightingales, Wilde speaks of heartbreak and redemption, of cruelty and compassion, of love lost, of love gained, of love lasting. Included in this selection are stories from The Happy Prince and A House of Pomegranates.

'His tales will dazzle children and intrigue adults' Guardian

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Product Details
  • Weight: 220g
  • Dimensions: 116 x 164mm
  • Publication Date: 03 Nov 2022
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780241597033

About Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. He went to Trinity College Dublin and then to Magdalen College Oxford where he began to propagandize the new Aesthetic (or 'Art for Art's Sake') Movement.Despite winning a first and the Newdigate Prize for Poetry Wilde failed to obtain an Oxford scholarship and was forced to earn a living by lecturing and writing for periodicals. 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 extravagantly 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.

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