本書是王爾德的第二部童話創作集,分別有〈少年國王〉(The Yong King)、〈英妃妲的生日〉(The Birthday of the Infanta)、〈漁夫和他的靈魂〉(The Fisherman and His Soul)及〈星孩〉(The Star-Child)。 〈少年國王〉描寫老國王的獨生女愛上了低下階層的人,王子被送到遠處農家扶養。加冕時他才16歲,就在前一晚做了三個夢,然而是什
Arguably the most famous and beloved of Oscar Wilde’s nine fairy tales, this particular rendition stands apart from the others due to its brilliant illustrations by a master of comic art. After dying
Arguably the most famous and beloved of Oscar Wilde’s nine fairy tales, this particular rendition stands apart from the others due to its brilliant illustrations by a a master of comic art. After dyin
With brilliant illustrations by a master of comic art, the lyrical prose of this fairy tale by Oscar Wilde is brought to life. A hideous dwarf is captured in the woods and brought in to the court of t
With brilliant illustrations by a master of comic art, this book of two of Oscar Wilde’s fairy tales brings his lyrical prose to life. In the first tale, the Young King is taken from humble origins an
Now back in print, a beautifully illustrated collection of twelve reimagined fairy tales, including classics like Beauty and the Beast and literary tales like Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince. Alice and Martin Provensen were one of the most talented husband-and-wife author-illustrator teams of the twentieth century. A long-out-of-print cult classic, The Provensen Book of Fairy Tales is an early golden treasury of their illustrations accompanied by fairy tales from well-loved authors such as A. A. Milne and Hans Christian Andersen to literary legends like Oscar Wilde. Here too are clever retellings and newly imagined tales: refined old favorites like Arthur Rackham's Beauty and the Beast, feminist revisions like Elinor Mordaunt's The Prince and the Goose Girl, and sensitive stories by literary stylists like Henry Beston's The Lost Half-Hour and Katharine Pyle's The Dreamer. Full of magic, ingenuity, and humor, The Provensen Book of Fairy Tales is a witty modern descendant of Grimm's Fairy
A collection of fairy tales by Victorian writers, including Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, and Rudyard Kipling, with illustrations from the same period
a little collection of fairy tales called The House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde. I opened this book up and found a whole different book than the one I had expected
Beautiful lyrical prose of Wilde gorgeously rendered by one of comic art’s mastersArguably the most famous and beloved of Oscar Wilde’s nine fairy tales, this particular rendition stands apart from th