Retold from: Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde was an Irish writer, the author of the touching tales “The Happy Prince” and “The Selfish Giant” about kindness and mercy.

He was born in 1854 in Dublin, studied in Dublin and Oxford, and lived and wrote mostly in London. Wilde became famous for his witty plays and for the novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray”. He died in Paris in 1900.

Wilde wrote his fairy tales when his two sons were growing up. The collection “The Happy Prince and Other Tales” came out in 1888, followed in 1891 by “A House of Pomegranates”. These tales are beautiful, a little sad, and move children and adults alike.

The site already has “The Happy Prince”, about a golden statue that gives away its jewels to the poor and the Swallow who stays with it all winter, and “The Selfish Giant”, about a garden where endless winter settled until one little child melted the owner’s heart.