The Selfish Giant and Other Stories

This collection gathers Oscar Wilde's fairy tales of the late 1880s and early 1890s, including The Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose, The Selfish Giant, The Devoted Friend, The Remarkable Rocket, The Young King, The Birthday of the Infanta, The Fisherman and His Soul, and The Star-Child. The pieces use talking birds, statues, gardens, and royal courts to stage pity, vanity, sacrifice, and the cost of beauty. Several end in death or reversal rather than simple reward. The volume is a set of moral fables written for print, not a novel and not Wilde's society comedies.

Three-quarter bound in dark blue buckram with a Modigliani paper side printed with a colour design by Grahame Baker-Smith. Silver slipcase.