Author: Oscar Wilde
Original Title: The Happy Prince and Other Tales
Genre: Children's book
Original publisher: unknown
Date first published: May 1888
Date first read: ca. May 1992
Main character(s): multiple
Favorite quote: N/A
Synopsis: *SPOILER-ISH*
This book contains several stories. Among them are The Happy Prince, a story about a finely crafted and decorated statute of a prince who was always happy in life (as sadness was not allowed around him). However, the little prince's statute, which stood tall enough to oversee the entire city, had turned sad upon seeing all the misery in his city as a statute. With the help of a little bird, the statute decides to make the lives of some of the most miserable citizens of the city happy.
The other stories include The Nightingale and the Rose, in which a nightingale sacrifices her life to make a poor student happy; The Selfish Giant, a story in which a giant first refuses to let children play in his garden, but later sees the error of his ways; The Devoted Friend, the sad story of a good friend and a bad friend ; and The Remarkable Rocket, about a very arrogant firework rocket.
Review:
This was book two of the books that I forced my poor mom to buy me in 1992 when we were in Belgrade. I remember very little about it, though I do remember a bit about the titular story. I remember liking these stories fairly enough. I had no clue who Oscar Wilde was, or else I may have paid more attention to what I was reading.
Oh, and the book was in Cyrillic script, which I read just as fast as the Latin one back then. Ah, to be young again...
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