Cover of Fairy Tales for Adults Volume 4 by Oscar Wilde Ebook Fairy Tales for Adults Volume 4
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Fairy Tales for Adults Volume 4

Author
Oscar Wilde, Beatrix Potter
Series
Ideas for Life
Language
English
Length
114 pages
ISBN
9781911263197
Published
15 February 2016
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Oscar Wilde
  • Beatrix Potter
  • Remarkable Rocket
  • Roly Poly Pudding
  • Tailor of Gloucester
  • fairy tale
  • children
  • magic
  • bedtime
  • stories

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Description

Wilde’s pocket comedies of money and fireworks — The Model Millionaire, The Remarkable Rocket — beside Potter’s Gloucester kitchens: The Roly-Poly Pudding and The Tailor of Gloucester. Wit in a drawing-room, mice in a workshop. A volume that treats generosity and craft as related magics. Potter’s stitch and dough against Wilde’s gold and a rocket’s boast. The pairing is the joke and the point: craft and show, a mouse’s dignity, a millionaire’s disguise.

Author

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was born in Dublin, took a double first at Magdalen College, Oxford, and made conversation a form of literature. The Picture of Dorian Gray is the one novel — beauty, bargain, and a portrait that keeps the score. The Importance of Being Earnest is the comedy in which nothing is earnest except the jokes. Prison and exile followed the trials. Style was an ethic. Scandal became a second plot.

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