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The Happy Prince & Other Stories

Also known as The Happy Prince and other tales

by Oscar Wilde & Charles Robinson (Illustrator)

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Languages: Chinese, English, French, German, Irish, Hebrew, Russian, Spanish
  • Content type: FictionJuvenile
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"The Happy Prince, and Other Tales" by Oscar Wilde is a collection of stories published in May 1888. This beloved work contains five tales that blend beauty with moral lessons, exploring themes of sacrifice, love, and materialism. From a jeweled statue who gives everything to help the poor, to a nightingale who dies creating a perfect rose, these stories reveal the tension between outer appearances and inner worth. Wilde crafts worlds where selfless acts go unrecognized and true devotion is dismissed, yet redemption awaits those who give without expecting reward. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Legendary beings and transformations and Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends.

  • Legendary beings and transformations

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Fairies”.

    • “Fairies”· via Open Library
  • Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends

    Controlled discovery queries from online-books-page, openlibrary-historical, and project-gutenberg matched “Fairy tales”, “Tales”, and “tales”. Retained metadata contains “Tales” in the alternative title, “Tales” in the description, “Fairy tales” in the subject metadata, and 3 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Fairy tales”· via The Online Books Page
    • “Tales”· via The Online Books Page
    • “Fairy tales”· via Open Library
    • “Tales”· via Open Library
    • “tales”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “Tales”· in alternative title

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Editions

Open Library reports 508 editions; 5 cataloged here.

The Happy Prince and Other Tales

The Online Books Page curated catalog record

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The Happy Prince and Other Fairy Tales

1909Brentano'sEnglish—Public

The happy prince, and other tales

1907T. B. MosherEnglish—Public

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Cataloging notes

  • Illustrators: Crane, Walter; Jacomb Hood, G. P. (George Percy)
  • Open Library reports 12 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Open Library reports 508 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Original print publication date and source edition are absent from Project Gutenberg metadata.
  • Source-listed Library of Congress call number(s): PR5818 .H251
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openlibrary-work:OL15187391W
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