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1、 Oscar Fingal OFlahertie Wills Wilde (1854一1900),was well-known as an Irish-born playwright, novelist, essayist and poet.The son of an eminent Dublin surgeon, was among the outstanding Victorian dramatists. His work: The Picture of Dorian Gray The Happy Prince and Other Tales The Ballad of Reading G
2、aol Lady Windermeres Fan The Soul of Man Under SocialismThe happy princeThe little swallow The Happy Prince and Other Tales (also sometimes called The Happy Prince and Other Stories) is an 1888 collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde. It is most famous for The Happy Prince, the short tale
3、of a metal statue who befriends a migratory bird. Together, they bring happiness to others, in life as well as in death. A statue of a privileged prince develops a social conscience and a swallow intends to pause just a moment to assist him. Together they conspire to bring a modicum of contentment,
4、financial security, and compassion to the beleaguered poor of a nameless city in northern Europe and both receive their rewards in a heavenly paradise. In this morality tale originally intended for the childlike rather than the child, Wilde addresses issues of social injustice, the loss of innocence
5、, and the redemptive power of love. The otherwise verbatim retelling of the original contains two omissions: reference to Jewish merchants in the ghetto and part of a descriptive passage of life on the Nile that included pygmies and strange religious practices Deep is an idea, moving tales of spirit
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