the remarkable rocket the happy prince and other tales

This was his courtship, and it lasted all through the summer. So he flew round and round her, touching the water with his wings, and making silver ripples. “Shall I love you?” said the Swallow, who liked to come to the point at once, and the Reed made him a low bow. There’s an immediate and simple story suitable for children and underlying meanings and comments for adults. I really enjoyed these stories and this is a side of Wilde I didn’t know. …that he never realises that people around him see him differently. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.” “I am not going to stop talking to him merely because he pays no attention. He’s part of a fireworks team and he thinks he’s the most beautiful and impressive of the lot until he screws things up. The Remarkable Rocket is the story of a delusional and snooty rocket. The Devoted Friend is about selfish Hans and his so-called definition of friendship that makes him shamelessly take and take from his friend without never giving anything back in return. Then they invited the North Wind to stay with them, and he came. The Snow covered up the grass with her great white cloak, and the Frost painted all the trees silver.

The Selfish Giant tells the story of a Giant who closed his garden to the neighbouring children who used it as a playground and as soon as he bans them from their paradise, Winter and his friends take possession of the place. The Nightingale and the Rose is the story of a Nightingale who sacrifices her life to make a red rose bloom so that a Student desperately in love can conquer the girl he fancies. He now feels terrible and convinces the Swallow to stay and help him right his wrongs. He’s very sad because he realised that he had spent a happy life only because he was sheltered in his castle and had no idea of the poverty and misfortunes of common people outside his castle. He was in love with a Reed and was reluctant to leave her.

Arrives a Swallow who’s stayed behind in Europe instead of flying to Egypt with his friends and family. The statue is richly decorated and make the mayor and his clique very proud. The Happy Prince is a statue of someone who was known for his sunny character. I was immersing myself in a side of Wilde’s work I’d never read and I was progressing on my #TBR20 project. It is a collection of short stories composed of The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde (1888)īefore visiting the Oscar Wilde exhibition in Paris I killed two birds in one stone by reading The Happy Prince and Other Tales.

The remarkable rocket the happy prince and other tales