The Selfish Giant and Other Classic Tales

The Selfish Giant and Other Classic Tales PDF Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Armadillo
ISBN: 9781861474032
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Retellings of six of Wilde's children's tales of love, loss, riches, poverty, hope, and happiness.

The Selfish Giant and Other Classic Tales

The Selfish Giant and Other Classic Tales PDF Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Armadillo
ISBN: 9781861474032
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Retellings of six of Wilde's children's tales of love, loss, riches, poverty, hope, and happiness.

The Selfish Giant and Other Stories

The Selfish Giant and Other Stories PDF Author: Oscar wilde
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780714548050
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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When the Selfish Giant decides to build a wall around his garden to prevent the children from playing in it, it becomes barren and stuck in perpertual winter. It takes a wonderful event and the heart of a young boy for him to realize the error of his ways. A classic tale for children, 'The Selfish Giant' is presented here with all of Oscar Wilde's other fairy stories - 'The Happy Prince', 'The Nightingale and the Rose', 'The Devoted Friend', 'The Remarkable Rocket', 'The Young King', 'The Birthday of the Infanta', 'The Fisherman and His Soul' and 'The Star-Child' - brought to life by Philip Waechter's bright and imaginative illustrations. Illustrated by Philip Waechter, this edition contains extra material and activities for young readers.

The Selfish Giant

The Selfish Giant PDF Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 5

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"The Selfish Giant" is a short fantasy story for children by the Irish author Oscar Wilde. The story's plot revolves around a giant who builds a wall to keep children out of his garden, but learns compassion from the innocence of the children. The short story contains significant religious imagery. The Selfish Giant owns a beautiful garden which has 12 peach trees and lovely fragrant flowers, in which children love to play after returning from the school. The Giant put a notice board "TRESPASSERS WILL BE PROSECUTED". The garden falls into perpetual winter. One day, the giant is awakened by a linnet, and discovers that spring has returned to the garden, as the children have found a way in through a gap in the wall… It was first published in 1888 in the anthology The Happy Prince and Other Tales, which, in addition to its title story, also includes "The Nightingale and the Rose", “The Happy Prince”, "The Devoted Friend" and "The Remarkable Rocket".

The Selfish Giant

The Selfish Giant PDF Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781792986901
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38

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The Selfish Giant Before you is one of the most beloved Children's Classics of all time - The Selfish Giant. The children love to play in the Selfish Giant's beautiful garden. After building a wall to keep them out, Snow, Frost, the North Wind, and Hail come to take over the garden. The Selfish Giant eventually realizes he was wrong to keep the children away, and he resolves to break down the wall he has built. One of the children that melt the giant's heart is a young child. We learn the young boy is actually the Christ child, who later takes the joyful giant to His home in Paradise.

Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde

Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde PDF Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780451531070
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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The master of wit and irony Published here alongside their evocative original illustrations, these fairy tales, as Oscar Wilde himself explained, were written “partly for children, and partly for those who have kept the childlike faculties of wonder and joy.”

The Giant's Garden

The Giant's Garden PDF Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780194217248
Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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P. Craig Russell's the Selfish Giant and Other Stories Fine Art Edition (Standard Edition)

P. Craig Russell's the Selfish Giant and Other Stories Fine Art Edition (Standard Edition) PDF Author:
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ISBN: 9780999810682
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Languages : en
Pages :

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The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde

The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde PDF Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Armadillo
ISBN: 9781861478825
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 14

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In this new edition, which contains all of Wilde's fairy tales, his rich prose is evoked beautifully with the sumptuous, intricate work of artist Isabelle Brent.

The Selfish Giant

The Selfish Giant PDF Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Black Cat-Cideb
ISBN: 9788877549679
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

The Happy Prince

The Happy Prince PDF Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780500651551
Category : Fairy tales
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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In a town where a lot of poor people suffer and where there are a lot of miseries, a swallow who was left behind after his flock flew off to Egypt for the winter, meets the statue of the late 'Happy Prince', who in reality has never experienced true sorrow, for he lived in a palace where sorrow isn't allowed to enter. Viewing various scenes of people suffering in poverty from his tall monument, the Happy Prince asks the swallow to take the ruby from his hilt, the sapphires from his eyes, and the golden leaf covering his body to give to the poor. As the winter comes and the Happy Prince is stripped of all of his beauty, his lead heart breaks when the swallow dies as a result of his selfless deeds and severe cold. The statue is then brought down from the pillar and melted in a furnace leaving behind the broken heart and the dead swallow and they are thrown in a dust heap. These are taken up to heaven by an angel that has deemed them the two most precious things in the city. This is affirmed by God and they live forever in his city of gold and garden of paradise.