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lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I'm not going to rate this as this isn't the exact edition I have, nor does it include all the stories I read.
The Happy Prince is quite a good short, and it was probably the only one I'd recommend.
There were others that were direct Christian allegories and some filled with racism, islamophobia, and ableism. There was one about a little person that was atrocious. Sure, I'm looking at it from a 2022 lens, but these things would've been bad then too.
Wilde certainly knows how to describe a garden, and his stories value loyalty, friendship, and the sharing of riches and love which are all good values.
The Happy Prince is quite a good short, and it was probably the only one I'd recommend.
There were others that were direct Christian allegories and some filled with racism, islamophobia, and ableism. There was one about a little person that was atrocious. Sure, I'm looking at it from a 2022 lens, but these things would've been bad then too.
Wilde certainly knows how to describe a garden, and his stories value loyalty, friendship, and the sharing of riches and love which are all good values.
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The Happy Prince ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Nightingale and the Rose ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Selfish Giant ⭐⭐⭐
The Devoted Friend ⭐⭐
The Remarkable Rocket ⭐⭐
The Nightingale and the Rose ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Selfish Giant ⭐⭐⭐
The Devoted Friend ⭐⭐
The Remarkable Rocket ⭐⭐
One good book. Writing style out of this world. This book is full of metaphors and I love it. I think Wilde was quite a tragic person every story is unique and you can feel it yet every story is kind of sad but there was a long time since I enjoyed in a style that much so I'll have to read something more. Simply beautiful.
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Dobra knjiga. Stil pisanja je brutalan. Knjiga je puna metafora i jako mi se to dopalo. Mislim da je Vajld bio prilično tragična osoba, svaka priča je jedinstvena i svaka je na neki način tužna ali dugo nisam uživala u stilu pisanja koliko sam čitajući ovu knjigu, moram da pročitam još nešto njegovo. Jednostavno prelepo
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Dobra knjiga. Stil pisanja je brutalan. Knjiga je puna metafora i jako mi se to dopalo. Mislim da je Vajld bio prilično tragična osoba, svaka priča je jedinstvena i svaka je na neki način tužna ali dugo nisam uživala u stilu pisanja koliko sam čitajući ovu knjigu, moram da pročitam još nešto njegovo. Jednostavno prelepo
adventurous
inspiring
medium-paced
cualquier cosa escrita por oscar wilde es una obra de arte para mí. no puedo ser objetiva con él, es mi preferido. 💌
Here is my much overdue review on this book. Quarantine Week 6 (?) is hitting me hard, and I’m feeling generally unmotivated. It took me an embarrassingly long time to even make my way through reading this short collection of fairy tales, but nevertheless I’m finally mustering up the energy to gather up my thoughts.
I had actually read the title piece The Happy Prince a couple of years ago, and either did not draw the connection between it and Wilde or forgot that the short story had been written by him. Either way, Wilde writing fairy tales just makes sense. Wilde is famous for his epigrams: short, witty sayings that somehow blend humor, profoundness, and frustration into one (an example: The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.) His writing is also typically very dramatic and moralizing, so I guess I really shouldn’t have been so surprised to hear that he had a couple of fairy tale collections under his belt. Combined with the usual over-the-top characters, Wilde’s writing style lends to the perfect storm of elements for a fairy tale. It’s kind of the perfect storm
I will say that these seem to be more like fairy tales in the classical/ Brothers Grimm sort of sense rather than a Disney take on fairy tales. Though less grotesque, morals seemed to be learned from instances of suffering, rather than happy endings.
I had actually read the title piece The Happy Prince a couple of years ago, and either did not draw the connection between it and Wilde or forgot that the short story had been written by him. Either way, Wilde writing fairy tales just makes sense. Wilde is famous for his epigrams: short, witty sayings that somehow blend humor, profoundness, and frustration into one (an example: The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.) His writing is also typically very dramatic and moralizing, so I guess I really shouldn’t have been so surprised to hear that he had a couple of fairy tale collections under his belt. Combined with the usual over-the-top characters, Wilde’s writing style lends to the perfect storm of elements for a fairy tale. It’s kind of the perfect storm
I will say that these seem to be more like fairy tales in the classical/ Brothers Grimm sort of sense rather than a Disney take on fairy tales. Though less grotesque, morals seemed to be learned from instances of suffering, rather than happy endings.
Wilde creates portraits of human nature that are simply etched and beautifully rendered.
After reading this I believe that Oscar Wilde was a hopeful cynic. He wrote these tales, fables really with morals and Christian symbols. I still enjoy The Happy Prince, and I also liked The Selfish Giant. I found the rest depressing.