The Canterville Ghost, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
By (Author) Oscar Wilde
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Classics
15th June 2010
1st April 2010
United Kingdom
Paperback
240
Width 130mm, Height 198mm, Spine 13mm
180g
A collection of Wilde's most charming and well-loved tales, as part of a new series of five Oscar Wilde titles A collection of stories, including two of Wilde's most famous- 'The Canterville Ghost', in which a young American girl helps to free the tormented spirit that haunts an old English castle and 'The Happy Prince', who was not as happy as he seemed. Often whimsical and sometimes sad, they all shine with poetry and magic.
Wit, intellectual, aesthete and raconteur, Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. His writing - including children's stories, poetry, philosophical essays, a novel and several hugely popular plays - made him the greatest celebrity of his day, and he remains one of the world's most frequently-quoted and well-loved writers.