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Published here alongside their evocative original illustrations, these fairy tales by the celebrated playwright and poet include "The Happy Prince and Other Tales" and "A House of Pomegranates. " Revised reissue.

Oscar Wilde, known for his acerbic and urbane nonfiction, was also a master of the fairy tale. While some of his inimitable irony remains, Wilde created lovely, gemlike tales filled with princes and nightingales, mermaids, giants, and kings. This volume brings together all of Wilde's fairy tales from his two collections - The Happy Prince and The House of Pomegranates - and retains the evocative illustrations done for the original editions. As Wilde explained, his fairy tales were written "partly for children, and partly for those who kept the childlike faculties of wonder and joy." Readers will detect in stories like "The Happy Prince,"…