yuefei 's review for:

The Nightingale and the Rose by Oscar Wilde

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One of the most affecting fairy tales I had read, with a writing style that is so unnecessarily beautiful that the imagery in itself has a substantial power to move. I've become obsessed with Oscar Wilde and his views on art and morality and his unconventionality. In a tragic twist, the already melancholic story of a passionate self-sacrifice turns into one that doesn't force a moral upon you, but instead makes you think about the events of the fairy tale over and over and over again. 

This I truly admire, the aim is not to deliver a straight-forward message but to provoke-thought and emotion instead.