The Young King and Other Stories

This collection gathers Oscar Wilde's fairy tales, taking its title from the 1891 story of a goatherd prince who, on the eve of coronation, dreams of the weavers, galley-slaves, and pearl-divers who suffer to make his robe, sceptre, and crown, and then refuses that splendour. Companion pieces typically include other moral fantasies from The Happy Prince and Other Tales and A House of Pomegranates: statues and swallows, a nightingale and a rose, a giant who shuts out children, a devoted friend, a rocket, an infanta, and a fisherman and his soul. The stories use simple narrative and decorative detail to test pity, vanity, and the cost of beauty.

Quarter bound in red buckram, pale blue paper boards with a repeat pattern in black by Gaastra. Pale blue dust-jacket printed in black with the same pattern the boards.