A review by annenikoline
The Happy Prince & Other Stories by Oscar Wilde

4.0

Oscar Wilde is a treat and his The Happy Prince and Other Tales is no exception. This book contains in my opinion some the very best of Wilde's fairy tales, however, these fairy tales are much darker and each has a very meaning message to send. The most beautiful, The Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose and The Selfish Gian, are all about death, but each an everyone of them is magically written:"'The Earth is going to be married, and this is her bridal dress,' whispered the Turtle-doves to each other."(The Star-Child)

I can honestly imagine myself reading this to my younger sister or perhaps my future children. I think they are as important as the fairy tales of the Grimm Brothers and even H.C. Anderson - and that says a lot!