Happy Prince & Other Stories

Regular price €17.50
Quantity:
In stock with our UK publisher. 14-28 days
Delivery/Collection within 10-20 working days
14 days return policy Shipping & Delivery
19th century
A01=Oscar Wilde
A24=David Stuart Davies
aestheticism
aesthetics
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
art nouveau
Author_Oscar Wilde
automatic-update
Category1=Fiction
Category=FBC
Category=FC
classic
clothbound
comic
COP=United Kingdom
crime
decadence
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
detective
eq_bestseller
eq_classics
eq_fiction
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
ghost stories
ghost story
gift
hardback
Language_English
luxury
murder
murderer
mystery
PA=Available
Price_€10 to €20
PS=Active
short stories
short story
softlaunch
tragic
unabridged
Victorian

Product details

  • ISBN 9781509827824
  • Weight: 182g
  • Dimensions: 102 x 157mm
  • Publication Date: 23 Mar 2017
  • Publisher: Pan Macmillan
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
  • Language: English
Secure checkout Fast Shipping Easy returns

The richness of Oscar Wilde's way with words and ideas is given full range in this sparkling collection of short stories written between 1887 and 1891.

From the comic tales of The Canterville Ghost and Lord Arthur Savile's Crime to the marvelous fairy stories and fantasies of The Selfish Giant, The Happy Prince and The Star Child, we are treated to the extravagance and dexterity of Wilde's exceptional wit, in stories that will appeal to both adults and children.

Beautifully illustrated by Charles Robinson and Walter Crane, this Macmillan Collector's Library edition of The Happy Prince & Other Stories also features an afterword by author David Stuart Davies.

Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. He studied there, at Trinity College, and then at Oxford, where he founded the cult of aestheticism. He published several books of stories, and one novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, in 1891. He had many successes as a playwright, first with Lady Windermere's Fan in 1892, and all his plays were performed in London between 1892 and 1895. A dazzling wit and flamboyant figure, Wilde's career was cut short after his homosexuality was exposed, and he was sentenced to two years' imprisonment in 1895. Released in 1897, he fled to France where he died a broken man in 1900.

More from this author