书名：Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde 奥斯卡王尔德童话故事全集
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数650
作者：Oscar Wilde
出版社名称：Signet Classics
出版时间：2008
语种：英文
ISBN：9780451531070
商品尺寸：10.6 x 1.6 x 17.6 cm
包装：简装
页数：218

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的不可多得的佳作。本书收录了《快乐王子》《夜莺与玫瑰》等经典名篇，适合有一定的英文基础的儿童或成人阅读。
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.”
With aNew IntroductionbyGYLES BRANDRETH and anAfterword byJACK ZIPES

Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde《奥斯卡王尔德童话故事全集》收录了The Happy Prince and Other Tales《快乐王子与其他故事》（1888）和A Houseof Pomegranates《石榴屋》（1891）两部童话集的所有故事，共包含The Happy Prince《快乐王子》、The Nightingale and the Rose《夜莺与玫瑰》、TheSelfish Giant《自私的巨人》等九篇童话。
A celebrates playwright and poet,Oscar Wilde also penned incomparable nonfiction and fiction—and lovely gemlike fairy tales. Filled with princes and nightingales, mermaids, giants, and kings, his tales carry the mark of his signature irony and subtle eroticism. This volume brings together all the stories found in Wilde’s two collections,The Happy Princeand Other Tales andA Houseof Pomegranates.

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.

THE HAPPY PRINCE AND OTHER TALES 快乐王子与其他故事
TheHappy Prince 快乐王子
TheNightingale and the Rose夜莺与玫瑰
TheSelfish Giant自私的巨人
TheDevoted Friend忠诚的朋友
TheRemarkable Rocket 神奇的火箭
A HOUSE OF POMEGRANATES石榴屋
TheYoung King少年国王
TheBirthday of the Infanta 公主的生日
TheFisherman and His Soul渔夫和他的灵魂
TheStar-Child星孩
Afterword后记
Noteon the Texts and Illustrations 注释
SelectedBibliography 精选目录

THE HAPPY PRINCE
High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince. He was gilded 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 some one 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.