Oscar Wilde's Stories for All Ages

✍ Scribed by Fry, Stephen (editor)

• Book ID: 109816816
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 3 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780007342488

✦ Synopsis

One of the world?s best loved presenters meets one of the world?s greatest authors in this beautiful selection of timeless, haunting stories. Vividly brought to life through abundant illustrations and Stephen?s masterly introductions, Oscar Wilde?s short stories are here made accessible to an entirely new generation. Whether you know it or not, the stories in this book are familiar. Like old friends whose charm and warmth never fade, Oscar Wilde's short stories have enchanted generations of readers, and this beautiful book makes them accessible to an entirely new readership. Selected and presented by one of Wilde's biggest fans, the book includes a foreword from Stephen Fry, who will also supply short introductions to the stories themselves, explaining why they mean so much to him and why they should mean a lot to you too. Meet the selfish giant, whose garden was cloaked in perpetual winter until he allowed the children to enter and play, the happy prince whose statue stood...