Cover of Fairy Tales for Adults Volume 5 by Oscar Wilde Ebook Fairy Tales for Adults Volume 5
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Fairy Tales for Adults Volume 5

Author
Oscar Wilde, Beatrix Potter
Series
Ideas for Life
Language
English
Length
128 pages
ISBN
9781911263289
Published
15 February 2016
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Oscar Wilde
  • Beatrix Potter
  • Tom Kitten
  • Samuel Whiskers
  • Timmy Tiptoes
  • fairy tale
  • children
  • magic
  • bedtime
  • stories

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Description

Wilde’s Selfish Giant and Nightingale and the Rose — winter gardens, a bird’s expensive song. Potter’s Tom Kitten, Samuel Whiskers, Timmy Tiptoes — dough, rats, and a squirrel’s store. Two temperatures of tale in one volume: parable and pantry. A giant learns to share a garden; a nightingale pays in blood for a rose; kittens meet a rat with a plan. Light and dark in alternate rooms — keep both, they argue well. A garden in winter, a rose paid in blood, a rolling-pin in Gloucester.

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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