The Selfish Giant and Other Stories

The Selfish Giant and Other Stories
Author: Oscar Wilde
Publsiher: Alma Classics
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-09-15
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1847494978

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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 perpetual 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.

The Selfish Giant and Other Classic Tales

The Selfish Giant and Other Classic Tales
Author: Oscar Wilde
Publsiher: Armadillo
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1861474032

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

The Selfish Giant

The Selfish Giant
Author: Oscar Wilde
Publsiher: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Total Pages: 5
Release: 2019-10-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: PKEY:SMP2300000063936

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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
Author: Oscar Wilde
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2019
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 1792986904

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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.

The Selfish Giant and Other Stories

The Selfish Giant and Other Stories
Author: Oscar Wilde
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2013
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: OCLC:881130609

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The Selfish Giant

The Selfish Giant
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Capstone
Total Pages: 18
Release: 2011
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781404864986

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A selfish giant decides to share his garden in a delightful retelling of Oscar Wilde's classic, spiritual tale.

Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde

Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde
Author: Oscar Wilde
Publsiher: Penguin
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2008-10-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0451531078

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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.”

Classic Tales of Oscar Wilde

Classic Tales of Oscar Wilde
Author: Oscar Wilde
Publsiher: Egmont UK Limited
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-11-05
Genre: Children's stories, English
ISBN: 1405264233

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And the Giant's heart melted as he looked out. 'How selfish I have been!" he said; " . . . I will knock down the wall, and my garden shall be the children's playground for ever and ever." The five stories in his collection for children show Wilde at his best; moving, witty, and wise. In The Happy Prince, a grand but lonely statue recruits a swallow to help him give to people in need; in The Nightingale and the Rose, a small bird makes a great sacrifice for love; The Selfish Giant is a beautiful story of the triumph of kindness; The Devoted Friend is a morality tale told to a pompous water rat; and The Remarkable Rocket charts the rise and fall of a particularly arrogant firework at a royal wedding.