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class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">1888 collection of fairytales by Oscar Wilde</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><caption class="infobox-title" style="font-size:125%; font-style:italic; padding-bottom:0.2em;">The Happy Prince and Other Tales <span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=&rft.author=%5B%5BOscar+Wilde%5D%5D&rft.date=May+1%2C+1888"></span></caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:TheHappyPrince.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/83/TheHappyPrince.jpg/220px-TheHappyPrince.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="336" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/83/TheHappyPrince.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="255" data-file-height="390" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">First edition cover</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Author</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Oscar_Wilde" title="Oscar Wilde">Oscar Wilde</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Publication date</div></th><td class="infobox-data">May 1, 1888</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>The Happy Prince and Other Tales</b></i> (or <i><b>Stories</b></i>) is a collection of stories for children by <a href="/wiki/Oscar_Wilde" title="Oscar Wilde">Oscar Wilde</a>, first published in May 1888. It contains five stories that are highly popular among children and frequently read in schools: "The Happy Prince," "The Nightingale and the Rose," "The Selfish Giant," "The Devoted Friend," and "<a href="/wiki/The_Remarkable_Rocket" title="The Remarkable Rocket">The Remarkable Rocket</a>." </p><p>In 2003, the second through fourth stories were adapted by Lupus Films and <a href="/wiki/Terraglyph_Interactive_Studios" title="Terraglyph Interactive Studios">Terraglyph Interactive Studios</a> into the three-part series <i>Wilde Stories</i> for <a href="/wiki/Channel_4" title="Channel 4">Channel 4</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Contents">Contents</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Happy_Prince_and_Other_Tales&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Contents"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Happy_Prince">The Happy Prince</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Happy_Prince_and_Other_Tales&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: The Happy Prince"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Plate_1_of_The_Happy_Prince_and_Other_Tales_(1888).png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Plate_1_of_The_Happy_Prince_and_Other_Tales_%281888%29.png/220px-Plate_1_of_The_Happy_Prince_and_Other_Tales_%281888%29.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="259" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Plate_1_of_The_Happy_Prince_and_Other_Tales_%281888%29.png/330px-Plate_1_of_The_Happy_Prince_and_Other_Tales_%281888%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Plate_1_of_The_Happy_Prince_and_Other_Tales_%281888%29.png/440px-Plate_1_of_The_Happy_Prince_and_Other_Tales_%281888%29.png 2x" data-file-width="1852" data-file-height="2180" /></a><figcaption>Plate 1 for the first edition by <a href="/wiki/Walter_Crane" title="Walter Crane">Walter Crane</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In a town full of suffering poor people, a <a href="/wiki/Swallow" title="Swallow">swallow</a> who was left behind after his flock flew off to Egypt for the winter<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilde2003271–272_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilde2003271–272-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> meets the statue of the late "Happy Prince,"<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilde2003272_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilde2003272-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who has never experienced true sorrow, for he lived in a palace where sorrow was not allowed to enter.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilde2003272_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilde2003272-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Viewing various scenes of people suffering in poverty from his tall monument,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilde2003272–273_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilde2003272–273-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the Happy Prince asks the swallow to take the ruby from his hilt,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilde2003272_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilde2003272-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the sapphires from his eyes,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilde2003274_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilde2003274-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the gold leaf covering his body<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilde2003276_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilde2003276-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to give to the poor. As 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.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilde2003276_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilde2003276-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The people, unaware of their good deeds, take the statue down from the pillar due to its shabbiness (intending to replace it with one of the Mayor<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilde2003277_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilde2003277-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) and melt the metal in a furnace, leaving behind the broken heart and the dead swallow, which are thrown in a dust heap.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilde2003276–277_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilde2003276–277-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These are taken up to heaven by an Angel that has deemed them the two most precious things in the city. 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Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">February 2020</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <ul><li>A radio drama adaption by <a href="/wiki/Columbia_Workshop" title="Columbia Workshop">Columbia Workshop</a> was broadcast on 26 December 1936.</li> <li>In 1941 <a href="/wiki/Orson_Welles" title="Orson Welles">Orson Welles</a> and <a href="/wiki/The_Mercury_Theatre" class="mw-redirect" title="The Mercury Theatre">The Mercury Theatre</a> broadcast a version on their "Christmas Show," with music by Bernard Herrmann.</li> <li>Another radio version was broadcast in the Philco Radio Hall of Fame on 24 December 1944. This featured <a href="/wiki/Orson_Welles" title="Orson Welles">Orson Welles</a> (narrator), <a href="/wiki/Bing_Crosby" title="Bing Crosby">Bing Crosby</a> (as The Prince) and <a href="/wiki/Lurene_Tuttle" title="Lurene Tuttle">Lurene Tuttle</a> as The Swallow.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>A record album called <i><a href="/wiki/The_Happy_Prince_(Bing_Crosby_and_Orson_Welles_album)" title="The Happy Prince (Bing Crosby and Orson Welles album)">The Happy Prince</a></i> was recorded on 21 August 1945<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and issued in 1946 by American <a href="/wiki/Decca_Records" title="Decca Records">Decca Records</a>, with Orson Welles narrating and Bing Crosby as the Prince.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In 1968 the British group <a href="/wiki/Bee_Gees" title="Bee Gees">Bee Gees</a> published the song "<a href="/wiki/When_the_Swallows_Fly" title="When the Swallows Fly">When the Swallows Fly</a>" with clear references to "The Happy Prince".</li> <li>In 1969 New Zealand group <a href="/wiki/The_La_De_Da%27s" title="The La De Da's">the La De Da's</a> released an album <i><a href="/wiki/The_Happy_Prince_(The_La_De_Da%27s_album)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Happy Prince (The La De Da's album)">The Happy Prince</a></i>, as a rock opera based on the story. Band members Bruce Howard and Trevor Wilson had conceived the idea in 1967, composing the music with Australian poet Adrian Rawlins narrating parts of Wilde's story.</li> <li>Canadian producer <a href="/wiki/Michael_Mills_(Canadian_producer)" title="Michael Mills (Canadian producer)">Michael Mills</a>, created an <a href="/wiki/The_Happy_Prince_(1974_film)" title="The Happy Prince (1974 film)">animated film adaptation</a> of the story in 1974 starring <a href="/wiki/Glynis_Johns" title="Glynis Johns">Glynis Johns</a> as the swallow and <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Plummer" title="Christopher Plummer">Christopher Plummer</a> as the Prince.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>A major story arc in <i><a href="/wiki/Journey_to_the_West_II" title="Journey to the West II">Journey to the West II</a></i> presented the tale as the backstory of two antagonists. The Python Demon Queen (<a href="/wiki/Angie_Cheung" class="mw-redirect" title="Angie Cheung">Angie Cheung</a>) who is in love with the <a href="/wiki/Interconnected-Arm_Gibbon" class="mw-redirect" title="Interconnected-Arm Gibbon">Interconnected-Arm Gibbon</a> (<a href="/wiki/Derek_Kok" title="Derek Kok">Derek Kok</a>), explained that she was once a swallow besotted with his statue of gold, and later helped the suffering commoners by stripping the statue of its treasures and distributing it.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Happily_Ever_After:_Fairy_Tales_for_Every_Child" title="Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child">Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child</a></i> presented a version of the title story set in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> featuring <a href="/wiki/Ed_Koch" title="Ed Koch">Ed Koch</a> as the Happy Prince (who was the statue of the city's previous mayor) and <a href="/wiki/Cyndi_Lauper" title="Cyndi Lauper">Cyndi Lauper</a> as a streetwise <a href="/wiki/Columbidae" title="Columbidae">pigeon</a> named "Pidge" (in place of the Swallow).</li> <li><i>Leo the Lion Records</i> released a reading of the story performed by <a href="/wiki/Richard_Kiley" title="Richard Kiley">Richard Kiley</a> on a recording (#GD01603) including a dramatization of "The Magic Fishbone" by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a> featuring <a href="/wiki/Julie_Harris" title="Julie Harris">Julie Harris</a> and Ian Martin and a reading of <a href="/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling" title="Rudyard Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</a>'s story "The Potted Princess" performed by Ms. Harris.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/McDull,_Prince_de_la_Bun" title="McDull, Prince de la Bun">McDull, Prince de la Bun</a></i> was partially based on this story.</li> <li>Music for Oscar Wilde's "Happy Prince" from his book "The Happy Prince and Other Tales", composed by <a href="/wiki/Edvard_Schiffauer" title="Edvard Schiffauer">Edvard Schiffauer</a>, c.2000</li> <li>In 2012 the Irish composer Vincent Kennedy and playwright <a href="/wiki/John_Nee" title="John Nee">John Nee</a> adapted the story for narrator, chorus and orchestra. "The Happy Prince" was premiered in County Donegal, Ireland, in April 2012 with Nee narrating and acting and Kennedy conducting and performing. It was broadcast on <a href="/wiki/RT%C3%89_Jr_Radio" title="RTÉ Jr Radio">RTÉ Jr Radio</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>The visual novel <i><a href="/wiki/Sakura_no_Uta" title="Sakura no Uta">Sakura no Uta</a></i> makes various references to "The Happy Prince".</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Nightingale_and_the_Rose">The Nightingale and the Rose</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Happy_Prince_and_Other_Tales&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: The Nightingale and the Rose"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>This story is an <a href="/wiki/Allegory" title="Allegory">allegory</a> of the moral decay and materialism of the age.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A <a href="/wiki/Common_nightingale" title="Common nightingale">nightingale</a> overhears a student complaining that the professor's daughter will not dance with him, as he is unable to give her a red rose;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilde2003278_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilde2003278-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a lizard, a butterfly and a daisy laugh at the student for doing so. The nightingale visits all the rose-trees in the garden, and one of the roses tells her there is a way to produce a red rose, but only if the nightingale is prepared to sing the sweetest song for the rose all night with her heart pressing into a thorn, sacrificing her life.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilde2003279_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilde2003279-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Seeing the student in tears, and valuing his human life above her bird life, the nightingale carries out the ritual and dies painfully.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilde2003279–281_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilde2003279–281-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The student takes the rose to the professor's daughter, but she again rejects him because the Chamberlain's nephew has sent her some real jewels, and "everybody knows that jewels cost far more than flowers."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilde2003281_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilde2003281-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The student angrily throws the rose into the gutter, returns to his study of metaphysics, and decides not to believe in true love anymore.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilde2003281–282_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilde2003281–282-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Adaptations_2">Adaptations</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Happy_Prince_and_Other_Tales&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Adaptations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Music_based_on_the_works_of_Oscar_Wilde" title="Music based on the works of Oscar Wilde">Music based on the works of Oscar Wilde</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-More_citations_needed_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/The_Happy_Prince_and_Other_Tales" title="Special:EditPage/The Happy Prince and Other Tales">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a> in this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">February 2020</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>There are many adaptations of this story in the form of operas and ballets. These include: </p> <ul><li>A cantata by <a href="/wiki/Henry_Kimball_Hadley" title="Henry Kimball Hadley">Henry Hadley</a>, an American composer and conductor, <i>The Nightingale and the Rose</i>, libretto E. W. Grant, Op. 54, S, SSAA, orchestra (New York, 1911)</li> <li>An opera by <a href="/wiki/Hooper_Brewster-Jones" title="Hooper Brewster-Jones">Hooper Brewster-Jones</a>, an Australian composer, <i>The Nightingale and the Rose</i>, 1927, of which only an orchestral suite survives.</li> <li>A ballet by English composer <a href="/wiki/Harold_Fraser-Simson" title="Harold Fraser-Simson">Harold Fraser-Simson</a>, <i>The Nightingale and the Rose</i>, (based on Wilde) (1927)</li> <li>One-act opera <i>Rosa rossa</i>, Op. 18, by Italian composer <a href="/w/index.php?title=Renzo_Rinaldo_Bossi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Renzo Rinaldo Bossi (page does not exist)">Renzo Rinaldo Bossi</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renzo_Rinaldo_Bossi" class="extiw" title="de:Renzo Rinaldo Bossi">de</a>]</span> (1883–1965), <a href="/wiki/Libretto" title="Libretto">libretto</a> by Bossi, after Wilde: <i>The Nightingale and the Rose</i>, Radio Turin, 9 August 1938; staged <a href="/wiki/Teatro_Regio_(Parma)" title="Teatro Regio (Parma)">Teatro Regio (Parma)</a>, 9 January 1940.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>A ballet by Latvian-Canadian composer <a href="/wiki/J%C4%81nis_Kalni%C5%86%C5%A1_(composer)" title="Jānis Kalniņš (composer)">Jānis Kalniņš</a>, <i>Lakstigala un roze</i> [<i>The Nightingale and the Rose</i>], <a href="/wiki/Riga" title="Riga">Riga</a>, 1938</li> <li>An opera by British composer <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Rutherford" title="Jonathan Rutherford">Jonathan Rutherford</a>, <i>The Nightingale and the Rose</i>, 1966</li> <li>One-act opera by American composer <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Garwood" title="Margaret Garwood">Margaret Garwood</a>, <i>The Nightingale and the Rose</i>, libretto by Garwood, Chester, Widener College Alumni Auditorium, 21 October 1973</li> <li>One-act <a href="/wiki/Chamber_opera" title="Chamber opera">chamber opera</a> by Russian composer <a href="/wiki/Elena_Firsova" title="Elena Firsova">Elena Firsova</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Nightingale_and_the_Rose_(opera)" title="The Nightingale and the Rose (opera)">The Nightingale and the Rose</a></i>, Op. 46 (1991), libretto by Firsova, premiered 8 July 1994 at <a href="/wiki/Almeida_Theatre" title="Almeida Theatre">Almeida Theatre</a>, Almeida Opera</li> <li>One-act ballet by South African composer <a href="/wiki/David_Earl_(composer)" title="David Earl (composer)">David Earl</a>, <i>The Nightingale and the Rose</i>, 1983</li> <li>A short film adaptation by <a href="/wiki/Del_Kathryn_Barton" title="Del Kathryn Barton">Del Kathryn Barton</a> with filmmaker Brenda Fletcher in 2015 that was screened at the Melbourne Writer's Festival</li> <li>A one-act opera by <a href="/wiki/Philip_Hagemann" title="Philip Hagemann">Philip Hagemann</a> written in 2003.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Selfish_Giant">The Selfish Giant</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Happy_Prince_and_Other_Tales&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: The Selfish Giant"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Plate_2_of_The_Happy_Prince_and_Other_Tales_(1888).png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Plate_2_of_The_Happy_Prince_and_Other_Tales_%281888%29.png/220px-Plate_2_of_The_Happy_Prince_and_Other_Tales_%281888%29.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="258" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Plate_2_of_The_Happy_Prince_and_Other_Tales_%281888%29.png/330px-Plate_2_of_The_Happy_Prince_and_Other_Tales_%281888%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Plate_2_of_The_Happy_Prince_and_Other_Tales_%281888%29.png/440px-Plate_2_of_The_Happy_Prince_and_Other_Tales_%281888%29.png 2x" data-file-width="1876" data-file-height="2196" /></a><figcaption>Plate 2 for the first edition by <a href="/wiki/Walter_Crane" title="Walter Crane">Walter Crane</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The Selfish <a href="/wiki/Giant" title="Giant">Giant</a> owns a beautiful garden which has 12 peach trees and lovely fragrant flowers, in which children love to play after returning from school.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilde2003283_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilde2003283-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On the giant's return after visiting his friend the Cornish <a href="/wiki/Ogre" title="Ogre">Ogre</a> for seven years, he takes offence at the children and builds a wall to keep them out.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilde2003283_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilde2003283-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He puts up a notice board "TRESPASSERS WILL BE PROSECUTED." The garden falls into perpetual winter.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilde2003283–284_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilde2003283–284-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One day, the giant is awakened by a <a href="/wiki/Common_linnet" title="Common linnet">linnet</a>, and discovers that spring has returned to the garden, as the children have found a way in through a gap in the wall. He sees the error of his ways, and resolves to destroy the wall. However, when he emerges from his castle, all the children run away except for one boy who was trying to climb a tree.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilde2003284_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilde2003284-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The giant helps this boy into the tree and announces: "It is your garden now, little children,"<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilde2003285_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilde2003285-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and knocks down the wall. The children once more play in the garden, and Spring returns. But the boy that the Giant helped does not return, and the Giant is heartbroken. Many years later, after happily playing with the children all the time, the Giant is old and feeble. One winter morning, he awakes to see the trees in one part of his garden in full blossom. He descends from the castle to discover the boy that he once helped standing beneath a beautiful white tree.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilde2003285_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilde2003285-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Giant sees that the boy bears the <a href="/wiki/Stigmata" title="Stigmata">stigmata</a>. He does not realise that the boy is actually the <a href="/wiki/Christ_Child" title="Christ Child">Christ Child</a> and is furious that somebody has wounded him. </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>"Who hath dared to wound thee?" cried the Giant; "tell me, that I may take my big sword and slay him."<br />"Nay!" answered the child; "but these are the wounds of Love."<br />"Who are you?" said the Giant, and a strange awe fell on him, and he knelt before the little child.<br />And the child smiled on the Giant, and said to him, "You let me play once in your garden, to-day you shall come with me to my garden, which is Paradise."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilde2003285_23-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilde2003285-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Shortly afterwards, the happy giant dies. That same afternoon, his body is found lying under the tree, covered in blossoms. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Adaptations_3">Adaptations</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Happy_Prince_and_Other_Tales&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Adaptations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-More_citations_needed_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/The_Happy_Prince_and_Other_Tales" title="Special:EditPage/The Happy Prince and Other Tales">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a> in this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">February 2020</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <ul><li>English singer and composer <a href="/wiki/Liza_Lehmann" title="Liza Lehmann">Liza Lehmann</a> wrote the recitation <i>The Selfish Giant</i> in 1911.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>English <a href="/wiki/Light_music" title="Light music">light music</a> composer <a href="/wiki/Eric_Coates" title="Eric Coates">Eric Coates</a> wrote the orchestral Phantasy <i>The Selfish Giant</i> in 1925.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1933–1934, violinist-composer <a href="/wiki/Jen%C5%91_Hubay" title="Jenő Hubay">Jenő Hubay</a> adapted the story into a <a href="/wiki/Hungarian_language" title="Hungarian language">Hungarian language</a> <a href="/wiki/Opera" title="Opera">opera</a>, <i>Az önző óriás</i> (Der selbstsüchtige Riese), Op. 124. The libretto was written by László Márkus and Jenő Mohácsi.</li> <li>A record album was produced in the 1940s by American Decca, narrated by <a href="/wiki/Fredric_March" title="Fredric March">Fredric March</a>, with a full unnamed supporting cast.</li> <li>In 1971, Peter Sander wrote and produced an animated version of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Selfish_Giant_(1972_film)" title="The Selfish Giant (1972 film)">The Selfish Giant</a></i> for <a href="/wiki/CTV_Television_Network" title="CTV Television Network">CTV</a> in Canada. The music was by <a href="/wiki/Ron_Goodwin" title="Ron Goodwin">Ron Goodwin</a>. It was nominated at the <a href="/wiki/44th_Academy_Awards" title="44th Academy Awards">44th Academy Awards</a> (1972) in the Animated Short Subject category, one of only three films to receive a nomination. It was first broadcast in November that year.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In the 1990s, the Australian team of composer <a href="/wiki/Graeme_Koehne" title="Graeme Koehne">Graeme Koehne</a> and choreographer <a href="/wiki/Graeme_Murphy" title="Graeme Murphy">Graeme Murphy</a> created a children's ballet based on <i>The Selfish Giant</i>.</li> <li>In 1992, the cartoonist P. Craig Russell adapted the story for Volume 1 of "Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde", which also includes "<a href="/wiki/A_House_of_Pomegranates#The_Star_Child" title="A House of Pomegranates">The Star Child</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In 1995 Richard Jeffrey-Gray composed a children's opera version, commissioned by Pied Piper and first performed at St George's, Brandon Hill, UK. With a faithful libretto by Alison Dodd it was conceived as a weekend workshop and chamber version. This is recorded with narration, not required in the stage work, spoken by Christopher Walker. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mXgtDLJ0jJW3NZbgoPdmXAy2MhRNq1Yrk&si=H5WJ7gDvh6XBB1d8">The chamber version is on YouTube.</a></li> <li>In the 1997 film <i><a href="/wiki/Wilde_(film)" title="Wilde (film)">Wilde</a></i>, based on the life of the author, portions of <i>The Selfish Giant</i> are woven in, with Wilde and his wife telling the story to their children, the portions reflecting on his relationship with them and others: the sadness of the children who can no longer play in the giant's garden is reflected in that of Wilde's sons as their beloved father spends more time with his lovers than with them.</li> <li>In 2010, UK composer <a href="/wiki/Howard_Goodall" title="Howard Goodall">Howard Goodall</a> wrote a version, to a commission from the <a href="/wiki/Brighton_Festival" title="Brighton Festival">Brighton Festival</a>, for narrator, children's choir and orchestra.</li> <li>An illustrated and abridged version was published in 2013 by Alexis Deacon.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Selfish_Giant_(2013_film)" title="The Selfish Giant (2013 film)">The Selfish Giant</a></i> is a 2013 British drama film directed by Clio Barnard, inspired by and loosely based on the <a href="/wiki/Oscar_Wilde" title="Oscar Wilde">Oscar Wilde</a> story.</li> <li>In 2014, the story was adapted as a South Korean musical stage by <a href="/wiki/June-Young_Soh" title="June-Young Soh">June Young Soh</a>, the musical was a global project involving talents from different countries starring <a href="/wiki/T-ara" title="T-ara">T-ara</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Jeon_Boram" title="Jeon Boram">Boram</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kim_Tae-woo_(singer)" title="Kim Tae-woo (singer)">Kim Tae Woo</a> and French actor <a href="/wiki/Jerome_Callet" title="Jerome Callet">Jerome Collet</a>. The musical was also very successful and sold out every showing.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In 2018, English songwriter <a href="/wiki/Guy_Chambers" title="Guy Chambers">Guy Chambers</a> adapted the story into a <a href="/wiki/The_Selfish_Giant_(folk_opera)" title="The Selfish Giant (folk opera)">folk opera</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Devoted_Friend">The Devoted Friend</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Happy_Prince_and_Other_Tales&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: The Devoted Friend"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Once upon a time, there was a kind and honest man named Hans. He lived alone in a tiny cottage. </p><p>Hans was a little man who owned a beautiful garden, where he grew flowers of all kinds and colours which were sold in the market to make some money.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilde2003287_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilde2003287-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He enjoyed the company of another man called Hugh, a miller who used to visit Hans very often during the summer time and with whom he shared thoughts about friendship and loyalty. Hans was so devoted to Hugh that he even gifted him whole bunches of flowers from his own garden.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilde2003287,_289–290_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilde2003287,_289–290-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>However, when winter came, Hans found himself in a very difficult situation, as his flowers wouldn't flourish anymore until the following spring, meaning that he was impoverished, living on a simple diet of a few pears and hard nuts.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilde2003287_29-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilde2003287-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> That winter was so stark that he had to sell some of his useful gardening tools, including his wheelbarrow, a silver chain, his pipe and some silver buttons. Meanwhile, the miller lived comfortably in his own house and avoided visiting his friend or helping him in any way, not to make him jealous and spoil, if not break, their friendship.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilde2003287–288_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilde2003287–288-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Finally, Spring came, and it was time for Hans to sell some of his primroses in order to buy back his silver buttons.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilde2003289_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilde2003289-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hugh finally visits him, and, hearing about his problem, he decides to kindly gift him his old, broken wheelbarrow in exchange for a few favours. Hans naively accepts the deal, but the unceasing requests of the miller keeps him busy to the point that he cannot tend his garden.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilde2003291_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilde2003291-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>One day, Hans was asked to go and seek a doctor for Hugh's son, who had hurt himself, but as it was a stormy and rainy night, he could barely see where he was going.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilde2003292_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilde2003292-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After finding the doctor, on the way back home, he gets lost and drowns in a hole full of water.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilde2003292_34-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilde2003292-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Hugh, exaggerating his sadness,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilde2003293_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilde2003293-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> attends Hans's funeral, and the linnet's story is concluded with the following sentence: "'A great loss to me at any rate,' answered the Miller; 'why, I had as good as given him my wheelbarrow, and now I really don't know what to do with it. It is very much in my way at home, and it is in such bad repair that I could not get anything for it if I sold it. I will certainly take care not to give away anything again. One always suffers for being generous.'"<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilde2003293_35-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilde2003293-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The water-rat, however, is unmoved by the story, saying that he would rather have not had listened to it, and disappears into his home.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilde2003293_35-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilde2003293-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>This story has been adapted for comics by the cartoonist P. Craig Russell, in Volume 4 of "Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde," which also includes "The Nightingale and the Rose."<sup id="cite_ref-FT4_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FT4-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Remarkable_Rocket">The Remarkable Rocket</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Happy_Prince_and_Other_Tales&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: The Remarkable Rocket"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/The_Remarkable_Rocket" title="The Remarkable Rocket">The Remarkable Rocket</a></div> <p>This story concerns a firework, who is one of many to be let off at the wedding of a <a href="/wiki/Prince" title="Prince">prince</a> and <a href="/wiki/Princess" title="Princess">princess</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilde2003294–295_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilde2003294–295-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The rocket is extremely pompous and self-important, and denigrates all the other fireworks, eventually bursting into tears to demonstrate his "sensitivity."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilde2003295–298_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilde2003295–298-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As this makes him wet, he fails to ignite and, the next day, is thrown away into a ditch. He still believes he is destined for great public importance, and treats a <a href="/wiki/Frog" title="Frog">frog</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dragonfly" title="Dragonfly">dragonfly</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Duck" title="Duck">duck</a> that meet him with appropriate disdain.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilde2003298–301_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilde2003298–301-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Two boys find him and use him as fuel for their camp-fire. The rocket is finally lit and explodes, but nobody observes him – the only effect he has is to frighten a <a href="/wiki/Goose" title="Goose">goose</a> with his falling stick.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilde2003301_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilde2003301-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>"The Remarkable Rocket," unlike the other stories in the collection, contains a large number of Wildean <a href="/wiki/Epigram" title="Epigram">epigrams</a>: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>"Conversation, indeed!" said the Rocket. "You have talked the whole time yourself. That is not conversation."<br />"Somebody must listen," answered the Frog, "and I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments."<br />"But I like arguments," said the Rocket.<br />"I hope not," said the Frog complacently. "Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilde2003299_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilde2003299-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Happy_Prince_and_Other_Tales&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Music_based_on_the_works_of_Oscar_Wilde" title="Music based on the works of Oscar Wilde">Music based on the works of Oscar Wilde</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_House_of_Pomegranates" title="A House of Pomegranates">A House of Pomegranates</a></i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span 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NBM. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-56163-392-5" title="Special:BookSources/1-56163-392-5"><bdi>1-56163-392-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Fairy+Tales+of+Oscar+Wilde&rft.pub=NBM&rft.isbn=1-56163-392-5&rft.aulast=Wilde&rft.aufirst=Oscar&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Happy+Prince+and+Other+Tales" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilde2003294–295-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilde2003294–295_37-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWilde2003">Wilde 2003</a>, pp. 294–295.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilde2003295–298-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilde2003295–298_38-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWilde2003">Wilde 2003</a>, pp. 295–298.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilde2003298–301-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilde2003298–301_39-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWilde2003">Wilde 2003</a>, pp. 298–301.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilde2003301-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilde2003301_40-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWilde2003">Wilde 2003</a>, p. 301.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilde2003299-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilde2003299_41-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWilde2003">Wilde 2003</a>, p. 299.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <p><b>Sources</b> </p> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWilde2003" class="citation book cs1">Wilde, Oscar (2003). <i>Complete Works of Oscar Wilde</i>. 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