The Happy Prince and Other Stories
Author: Oscar Wilde
Urbane, dandyish, sardonic – the popular image of Oscar Wilde does not immediately conjure up a writer of enchanting fairy tales. Yet, as this collection admirably shows, he was also a poet, dreamer and, above all, born storyteller.’The Happy Prince’, one of his best-loved stories, tells of the attempts of a kind-hearted statue and an amorous swallow to rid their city of p….Read More
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