Wilde's Fairy Tales (Pinyin Color Illustrations)

Author: Oscar Wilde [United Kingdom]
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: Phonetic Color Illustrated Picture Book of World Literature Classics. He is called the Happy Prince, yet he is not happy. He can see the sorrow hidden behind the city's prosperity, but he is helpless, because he is just a statue standing high. Until a little swallow comes, helping him pick off the gems and gold leaf from his body to rescue the poor from their hardship. He is a giant, once very selfish, who drove away the children playing in his garden, and since then, spring no longer visits. Until one day, some children come, and spring arrives too, only then does he realize. She was once a happy little nightingale, letting the thorns of a rose tightly pierce her chest to help a university student win the girl he longed for, trading her heart for the world's most vibrant red rose. Sometimes, he is also a proud star child, perhaps still that unfortunate little dwarf, or he can transform into a young king with an angelic face.