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Reprint. ( Third printing of the 2022 Folio Society edition.) Hard cover 16mo, in yellow decorated cloth in an art deco design of yellow overlapping fans, 188 [189]pp. plus 2 pp. publisher's advertising for the series. CONDITION: Fine, like new. ** This anthology of ten of the Irish Author's fables, include 10 works originally published between 1888 and 1891: "The Happy Prince," The Nightingale and the Rose," "The Selfish Giant," "The Devoted Friend," "The Remarkable Rocket," first appearing in "1888's "The Happy Prince and Other Tales". Additionally, "The Young King," "The Birthday of the Infanta," "The Fisherman of the Soul," and "The Star-Child" originally appeared in "The House of Pomegranates," his second book of fairytales published in 1891. Irish poet, playwright and critic Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), a voice for the Aesthetic Movement in the British arts along with writers such as Walter Pater and Algernon Swinburne. Their "art for art's sake" emphasized the experience of the senses, in reaction to the stuffy conservatism of Victorian thought, bridging the arts into the modern era. These stories are a bit reminiscent of Kenneth Grahame's "Wind in the Willows," with its cast of water-rat, ducks and other fauna, albeit with the addition of inanimate object characters, such as the Catherine Wheel and the Rocket, who dispense sometimes wry moral criticism cloaked in the cozy familiarity of child-like innocence.
Ref: FICT19 9349
$30.00