Book Synopsis:
The complete collection, first published in 1952 with exquisite illustrations by the celebrated artist Philippe Jullian, republished in a beautiful giftable edition.
For nearly 150 years, the classic fairy stories of Oscar Wilde have been cherished by readers of all ages. Rediscover all nine of the stories first published in The Happy Prince and other stories (1888) and A House of Pomegranates (1891) in this beautiful new edition of Duckworth’s exquisite 1952 complete collection, featuring intricate illustrations by the celebrated twentieth-century artist and aesthete Phillippe Jullian, and an afterword by Wilde’s son Vyvyan Holland.
My Review:
The Complete Fairy Stories Of Oscar Wilde is a beautiful book that would be perfect for giving this Christmas. My little girl is immensely proud of her copy and has shown it to everyone who comes to our house! She has also taken to sleeping with it under her pillow, a sure sign that she loves it.
The cover is wonderful with a fantastic illustration and green glitter on it – always a favourite with children. There are many beautiful illustrations inside the book too which my little girl loved and spent ages looking at after we’d finished reading.
The book consists of 9 stories of which I’d only heard of 2 before reading this book so it was nice to discover new stories together. Our favourite was The Nightingale And The Rose but she enjoyed the other stories too. We tried to read a chapter a night which was doable as the stories aren’t overly long. I must admit I think some of the meanings behind the story were lost on her but, despite this, I felt there was lots to enjoy from the book. It was nice to read fairy tales that weren’t all doom and gloom but actually quite sweet sometimes.
Huge thanks to Anne Cater for inviting me onto the blog tour and to the publisher for our copy of this book.
About The Author:
scar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and Magdalen College, Oxford where, a disciple of Pater, he founded an aesthetic cult. In 1884 he married Constance Lloyd, and his two sons were born in 1885 and 1886.
His novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), and social comedies Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband (1895), and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), established his reputation. In 1895, following his libel action against the Marquess of Queesberry, Wilde was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for homosexual conduct, as a result of which he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), and his confessional letter De Profundis (1905). On his release from prison in 1897 he lived in obscurity in Europe, and died in Paris in 1900.
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