Oscar Wilde - The Happy Prince and Other Fairy Tales
Oscar Wilde was born in 1854 in Dublin, the son of a physician and writer; his mother wrote poems and was an authority on Celtic folklore. Wilde married the daughter of a prominent Irish barrister. At the same time, the marriage marked the beginning of a peak creative period for him. During this time, in addition to his fairytale collections “The Happy Prince and Other Tales” (1888) and “A House of Pomegranates” (1892) and numerous poems and plays, he also wrote his novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray” (1891), whose hero’s life rises above all morality and ends in the morass of a sinful existence, anticipating the author’s own fate. On 30 November 1900, he died, completely impoverished, in Paris. The two collections of fairy tales do not go back to folktales that have come down to us anonymously, but belong to the genre of ‘literary fairy tales’, which, as the creation of a particular writer, represent a separate literary genre with a long tradition that goes back to antiquity.[/bgcolor]
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