书名：The Selfish Giant and Other Stories自私的巨人和其他故事

读者对象：9-11岁
作者：Oscar Wilde
出版社名称：Alma Classics
出版时间：2015
语种：英文
ISBN：9781847494979
商品尺寸：12.7 x 2 x 19.8 cm
包装：平装
页数：256 （以实物为准）

奥斯卡·王尔德是19世纪英国唯美主义的代表作家，其创作的童话语言纯正优美，意境高洁悠远、益人心智，堪称儿童文学的瑰宝，也是世界文学宝库中不可多得的佳作。

本书The Selfish Giant and Other Stories《自私的巨人和其他故事》收录了王尔德的The Selfish Giant《自私的巨人》、The Happy Prince《快乐王子》、The Nightingale and the Rose《夜莺与玫瑰》、The Devoted Friend《忠诚的朋友》、A House of Pomegranates《石榴之屋》、The Remarkable Rocket《神奇的火箭》、The Young King《少年国王》、The Birthday of the Infanta《公主的生日》、The Fisherman and His Soul《渔夫和他的灵魂》、The Star-Child《星孩》共10部童话名篇。语言清新优美，诗意浓郁，是唯美主义童话的经典之作。
作者除了遵循一般童话中应有的惩恶扬善、锄强扶弱、劫富济贫以及褒美贬丑等主题外，还以他的唯美主义观点，探讨“幸福”、“心之美”、“灵魂、肉体与心灵”等重大命题，而且在童话写作形式和内容表达两方面都取得突破，取得实绩，创作出“世上很美的童话”。

本书为Alma Classics推出的英文原版，包含由著名插画师Philip Waechter绘制的插画，以及作者、角色、同类经典书籍介绍、选择题小测试（Test Yourself）等内容，有助于小读者学习和理解。

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.

Review
'Perfectly poignant' --Aldershot News & Mail

奥斯卡·王尔德（Oscar Wilde，1854~1900），英国作家、艺术家、唯美主义代表人物，19世纪80年代美学运动的主力和先驱，与萧伯纳齐名。王尔德以小说、童话、戏剧、诗歌闻名，他写的童话故事，常与安徒生、格林童话相并论。他的戏剧作品可与莎士比亚的作品相媲美。几百年来，王尔德的作品一直被广为流传，并受到广大读者的青睐。

 Oscar Wilde was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London’s most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death.

 HIGH ABOVE THE CITY, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince. He was gilt all over with thin leaves of fine gold, for eyes he had two bright sapphires, and a large red ruby glowed on his sword hilt.

He was very much admired indeed. “He is as beautiful as a weathercock,” remarked one of the town councillors who wished to gain a reputation for having artistic tastes. “Only not quite so useful,” he added, fearing lest people should think him unpractical, which he really was not.

“Why can’t you be like the Happy Prince?” asked a sensible mother of her little boy who was crying for the moon. “The Happy Prince never dreams of crying for anything.”
“I am glad there is someone in the world who is quite happy,” muttered a disappointed man as he gazed at the wonderful statue.
“He looks just like an angel,” said the charity children as they came out of the cathedral in their bright scarlet cloaks, and their clean white pinafores.
“How do you know?” said the Mathematical Master.
“Youhave never seen one.”
“Ah! But we have, in our dreams,” answered the children; and the Mathematical Master frowned and looked very severe, for he did not approve of children dreaming.
One night, there flew over the city a little Swallow His friends had gone away to Egypt six weeks before, hut he had stayed behind, for he was in love with the most beautiful reed. He had met her early in the spring as he wasflying down the river after a big yellow moth, and had been so attracted by her slender waist that he had stopped to talk to her.
“Shall I love you?” said the Swallow, who liked to come to the point at once, and the Reed made him a low bow. So he flew round and round her, touching the water withhis wings, and making silver ripples. This was his courtship, and it lasted all through the summer.
“It is a ridiculous attachment,” twittered the other Swallows. “She has no money, and far too many relations,” and indeed the river was quite full of reeds. Then, when the autumn came, they all flew away.