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Book A House of Pomegranates A Short Stories By  Oscar Wilde   Annotated Edition

Download or read book A House of Pomegranates A Short Stories By Oscar Wilde Annotated Edition written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A House of Pomegranates is a collection of whimsical short stories by Oscar Wilde. This collection includes the following tales: The Young King, The Birthday of the Infant, The Fisherman and his Soul, and The Star-child. Readers of all ages will be delighted by these fanciful tales.A House of Pomegranates contains four short fairy tales by Wilde. I originally intended just to read one of them but ended up reading the whole book! Each story has a moral lesson for the reader but first and foremost they are enjoyable fairy tales - although quite dark in tone, as many fairy tales are.

Book A House of Pomegranates Annotated illustrated Edition

Download or read book A House of Pomegranates Annotated illustrated Edition written by Oscar Wilde and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A House of Pomegranates is a collection of fairy tales, written by Oscar Wilde, that was published in 1891. The stories included in this collection are as follows: The Young King .The Birthday of the Infanta .The Fisherman and his Soul .The Star Child the story of the illegitimate shepherd son of the recently dead king's daughter of an unnamed country. Being his only heir, the sixteen-year-old is brought to the palace to await his accession. There, he is in awe of the splendor of his new home and anxiously awaits his new crown, scepter, and robe which are soon to be delivered to him for his coronation in the morning

Book A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde Annotated

Download or read book A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde Annotated written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-23 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A House of Pomegranates is a collection of whimisical short stories by Oscar Wilde. This collections includes the following tales: The Young King, The Birthday of the Infanta, The Fisherman and his Soul, and The Star-child. Readers of all ages will be delighted by these fanciful tales. So don't wait! Scroll up and buy now.

Book A House of Pomegranates  Annotated

Download or read book A House of Pomegranates Annotated written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A House of Pomegranates is a collection of whimisical short stories Oscar Wilde. This collections includes the following tales: The Young King, The Birthday of the Infanta, The Fisherman and his Soul, and...

Book A House of Pomegranates Annotated

Download or read book A House of Pomegranates Annotated written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-12 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A House of Pomegranates is a collection of fairy tales, written by Oscar Wilde, that was published in 1891. The stories included in this collection are as follows: The Young King .The Birthday of the Infanta .The Fisherman and his Soul .The Star Child the story of the illegitimate shepherd son of the recently dead king's daughter of an unnamed country. Being his only heir, the sixteen-year-old is brought to the palace to await his accession. There, he is in awe of the splendor of his new home and anxiously awaits his new crown, scepter, and robe which are soon to be delivered to him for his coronation in the morning.

Book A House of Pomegranates   Classics

Download or read book A House of Pomegranates Classics written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A House of Pomegranates is a collection of fairy tales, written by Oscar Wilde, that was published in 1891.The stories included in this collection are as follows: The Young King .The Birthday of the Infanta .The Fisherman and his Soul .The Star Child the story of the illegitimate shepherd son of the recently dead king's daughter of an unnamed country. Being his only heir, the sixteen-year-old is brought to the palace to await his accession. There, he is in awe of the splendor of his new home and anxiously awaits his new crown, scepter, and robe which are soon to be delivered to him for his coronation in the morning.

Book A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde

Download or read book A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oscar Wilde might just be the greatest fiction writer of all time. Having said that, it's a pity there are so few of his works. He certainly has a very special place in my heart, and this collection of beautiful children's stories show just how talented he really was. Wilde is famous for his 'epigrams' and his razor-sharp wit. His command of the English language made him a literary trend-setter. Yet these innocent fables allow people to see a lesser-known side of him, a more human side; a glimpse of the 'mortal'. As mercurial and glamorous as he was (or made himself out to be), the work he produced here for younger audiences stands as a hommage for ancient story-telling that reaches out to the likes of Hans Christian Anderson or the Brother's Grimm. In fact these aren't mere stories, but rather 'fables', and unfortunately fables are an almost extinct form of story-telling these days. When people think of Oscar Wilde, no one ever thinks of morals, yet these tales each hold a deep moral lesson. The 'Star Child' is rather like 'Dorian Gray' re-worked for children, in that it warns them of the dangers of vanity and to respect ones' elders. The 'Mermaids Soul' explores the rather complex issue of the soul, or rather the difference of making decisions with your head or your senses, and how one must have a little of both facilities in, otherwise chaos ensues. The most famous of this bunch is probably 'The Happy Prince', who when I first read it many moons ago mistook it for an Andersen fable. My favourite, 'The Infanta', is about innocent ignorance, class-divide, love and mercy. It teaches us NOT to judge by appearances, and to accept people as they are. Wilde was famed as an aesthete, yet in all his stories there is a very firm dislike of articifice, and a reverence of the beauty of the soul as opposed to the flesh. Even though this is blatantly obvious in his writing, people still insist on ignoring it, which is sad. Judging by these stories (and stories are a window to the soul) I think Wilde was a deeply moral man whose choices in life must have pained him given the social/ cultural atmosphere of the time. This collection would make a wonderful gift for any child. I read the Gutenberg ebook version, which unfortunately didn't have the titles, but rather interestingly had a dedication at the beginning of each story telling the reader who it was written for. I think 'The House of Pomegranates' is a real gem of a book. I'm glad I rediscovered it this year. It is absolute story perfection.

Book A House of Pomegranates Classic Original Edition Annotated

Download or read book A House of Pomegranates Classic Original Edition Annotated written by Oscar Wilde and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-06-05 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A House of Pomegranates is a collection of fairy tales, written by Oscar Wilde, that was published in 1891 as a second collection for The Happy Prince and Other Tales. Wilde once said that this collection was "intended neither for the British child nor the British public."

Book A House of Pomegranates  Annotated Edition

Download or read book A House of Pomegranates Annotated Edition written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 2021-08 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A House of Pomegranates is a collection of fairy tales, written by Oscar Wilde, that was published in 1891. The stories included in this collection are as follows: The Young King .The Birthday of the Infanta .The Fisherman and his Soul .The Star Child the story of the illegitimate shepherd son of the recently dead king's daughter of an unnamed country. Being his only heir, the sixteen-year-old is brought to the palace to await his accession. There, he is in awe of the splendor of his new home and anxiously awaits his new crown, scepter, and robe which are soon to be delivered to him for his coronation in the morning.

Book A House of Pomegranates Annotated Illustrated

Download or read book A House of Pomegranates Annotated Illustrated written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-03 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A House of Pomegranates is a collection of fairy tales, written by Oscar Wilde, that was published in 1891.The stories included in this collection are as follows: The Young King .The Birthday of the Infanta .The Fisherman and his Soul .The Star Child the story of the illegitimate shepherd son of the recently dead king's daughter of an unnamed country. Being his only heir, the sixteen-year-old is brought to the palace to await his accession. There, he is in awe of the splendor of his new home and anxiously awaits his new crown, scepter, and robe which are soon to be delivered to him for his coronation in the morning.

Book The Short Stories of Oscar Wilde

Download or read book The Short Stories of Oscar Wilde written by Oscar Wilde and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative new edition of nine classic short stories from one of the greatest writers of the Victorian era. “I cannot think other than in stories,” Oscar Wilde once confessed to his friend André Gide. In this new selection of his short fiction, Wilde’s gifts as a storyteller are on full display, accompanied by informative facing-page annotations from Wilde biographer and scholar Nicholas Frankel. A wide-ranging introduction brings readers into the world from which the author drew inspiration. Each story in the collection brims with Wilde’s trademark wit, style, and sharp social criticism. Many are reputed to have been written for children, although Wilde insisted this was not true and that his stories would appeal to all “those who have kept the childlike faculties of wonder and joy.” “Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime” stands alongside Wilde’s comic masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest, while other stories—including “The Happy Prince,” the tale of a young ruler who had never known sorrow, and “The Nightingale and the Rose,” the story of a nightingale who sacrifices herself for true love—embrace the theme of tragic, forbidden love and are driven by an undercurrent of seriousness, even despair, at the repressive social and sexual values of Wilde’s day. Like his later writings, Wilde’s stories are a sweeping indictment of the society that would imprison him for his homosexuality in 1895, five years before his death at the age of forty-six. Published here in the form in which Victorian readers first encountered them, Wilde’s short stories contain much that appeals to modern readers of vastly different ages and temperaments. They are the perfect distillation of one of the Victorian era’s most remarkable writers.

Book The Short Stories of Oscar Wilde

Download or read book The Short Stories of Oscar Wilde written by Oscar Wilde and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative new edition of nine classic short stories from one of the greatest writers of the Victorian era. “I cannot think other than in stories,” Oscar Wilde once confessed to his friend André Gide. In this new selection of his short fiction, Wilde’s gifts as a storyteller are on full display, accompanied by informative facing-page annotations from Wilde biographer and scholar Nicholas Frankel. A wide-ranging introduction brings readers into the world from which the author drew inspiration. Each story in the collection brims with Wilde’s trademark wit, style, and sharp social criticism. Many are reputed to have been written for children, although Wilde insisted this was not true and that his stories would appeal to all “those who have kept the childlike faculties of wonder and joy.” “Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime” stands alongside Wilde’s comic masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest, while other stories—including “The Happy Prince,” the tale of a young ruler who had never known sorrow, and “The Nightingale and the Rose,” the story of a nightingale who sacrifices herself for true love—embrace the theme of tragic, forbidden love and are driven by an undercurrent of seriousness, even despair, at the repressive social and sexual values of Wilde’s day. Like his later writings, Wilde’s stories are a sweeping indictment of the society that would imprison him for his homosexuality in 1895, five years before his death at the age of forty-six. Published here in the form in which Victorian readers first encountered them, Wilde’s short stories contain much that appeals to modern readers of vastly different ages and temperaments. They are the perfect distillation of one of the Victorian era’s most remarkable writers.

Book The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde Annotated Edition

Download or read book The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde Annotated Edition written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Happy and Other Tales, a collection of fairy tales that consists of the titular piece, "The Selfish Giant," "The Devoted Friend," "The Young King," "The Nightingale and the Rose," "The Fisherman and His Soul," "The Star-Child," "The Remarkable Rocket, and "The Birthday of the Infanta," was written by Oscar Wilde and first published in 1888. Wilde was notorious for promoting "art for art's sake," but chose to write these tales in the didactic form of the fairy tale. This form allowed Wilde to explore themes of importance to him, such as homosexuality, morality, aestheticism, English socioeconomic realities, and more.

Book The Complete Short Stories of Oscar Wilde

Download or read book The Complete Short Stories of Oscar Wilde written by Oscar Wilde and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete texts of "The Happy Prince and Other Tales," "A House of Pomegranates," "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories," "Poems in Prose," and "The Portrait of Mr. W. H."

Book The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde  Warbler Classics Annotated Edition

Download or read book The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde Warbler Classics Annotated Edition written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 2022-09-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete Fairy Stories of Oscar Wilde gathers all nine of Oscar Wilde's whimsical, poignant fabulations from The Happy Prince and Other Tales and The House of Pomegranates. Laced with Wilde's legendary drollery, these fanciful tales touch on the themes of love, devotion, creativity, compassion, friendship, and longing with both irresistible charm and profound insight. As appealing to adults as children, these ingenious gems by a master storyteller provide delightful bedtime reading and an enthralling escape to worlds of Wilde's making. This Warbler Classics edition includes a detailed biographical timeline of Wilde's life and work.

Book The Annotated Oscar Wilde

Download or read book The Annotated Oscar Wilde written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Verzameld werk van de Ierse auteur (1854-1900)

Book The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde Annotated Edition

Download or read book The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde Annotated Edition written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author's most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused a scandal when it first appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel's corrupting influence, he responded that there is, in fact, "a terrible moral in Dorian Gray."