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The Nightingale And the Rose

Author
Oscar Wilde
Read by
Josh Verbae
Series
Tales by Oscar Wilde
Language
English
Length
15 minutes
ISBN
9781911144496
Published
15 December 2015
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Oscar Wilde
  • tales
  • The Nightingale And the Rose
  • happiness
  • friendship
  • compassion
  • classic
  • children

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Description

A nightingale finds a young romantic student in tears because he cannot find a red rose for his beautiful ball partner. There are no red roses in the garden. The nightingale visits all the rose-trees in the area, and one of the roses tells her there is a way to produce a red rose, but only if the nightingale is prepared to sing the sweetest song for the rose all night with her heart pressing into a thorn, sacrificing her life. Seeing the student in tears, and valuing his human life above her bird life, the nightingale carries out the ritual. Read in English by Josh Verbae, unabridged.

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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