The Happy Prince: The Complete Fairy Tales & Other Stories by Oscar Wilde [U.K. ILLUSTRATED HARDCOVER OMNIBUS] 1980 • Octopus

The Happy Prince, The Selfish Giant: Fairy Tales and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde • Illustrated by Jeremy Ford and Geoff Taylor

U.K. ILLUSTRATED HARDCOVER OMNIBUS [1980] OCTOPUS BOOKS

Newly illustrated for this edition, this book contains the complete fairy tales of Oscar Wilde, containing his two collections 'The Happy Prince and Other Tales' and 'A House of Pomegranates' as well as four stories from 'Lord Arthur Savile's Crime' including The Canterville Ghost. Great black and white illustrations throughout. 

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.

Dust jacket has a few worn edges and a mild water stain to underside, but is otherwise clean and in tact.  Ships in a new HQ jacket protector.

Book itself is mint.  Pristine cloth boards. Reads like new. 

ABOUT THE BOOK

This edition contains all thirteen of Oscar Wilde's fairy tales and stories which were originally published in 'The Happy Prince and Other Tales'; 'A House of Pomegranates' and 'Lord Arthur Savile's Crime'.

'The Happy Prince' is the gold and jewelled statue who stands high above the city looking down on the poverty and misery of his citizens. Unable to help them himself, the Prince befriends a swallow who agrees to deliver his gifts, but with the onset of winter they have little time left. When 'The Selfish Giant' forbids children to play in his garden he also banishes laughter and joy; the birds stop singing, the trees no longer blossom and winter goes on forever. Only when the giant learns how to love and give will spring return. In 'Lord Arthur Savile's Crime' the young aristocrat learns he will commit a terrible murder when his hand is read by Mr Podgers. Madly in love with his fiancée Sybil, he makes the momentous decision to immediately carry out his dreadful deed so that he will have a clear conscious on his wedding day, but who will be his victim?