The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde (Selections)
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (723 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0670855855 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 144 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-17 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A tragic fairy tale A tragic fairy tale for older children, about the lavish birthday celebrations of the Spanish Infanta (Princess) and a hideous misshapen dwarf who is brought to perform for her birthday celebrations. He dreams of being the companion of the beautiful Infanta, but then in the palace he sees how ugly he is in a mirror, and dies of a broken heart.. A visual storytelling triumph Midwest Book Review P. Craig Russell is one of the top artists working in the genre of the graphic novel today. His latest visual storytelling triumph in a series of marvelous adaptions of the fables and fairytales of Oscar Wilde flawlessly published by NMB Press is Fairy Tales Of Oscar Wilde: The Devoted Friend and The Nightingale And The Rose. Russell works his. not as beautiful as I expected I bought this book mainly for its illustration. I had a Oscar Wilde fairy tale book in a different language with a different illustrater, and I loved the style. So I would like to get a nice English edition with beautiful pictures for my own enjoyment and maybe future children. The book is well made. I have no complaints. The drawings are nice
--Linda Boyles, Alachua County Library District, Gainesville, FLCopyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. & S., 1992) or P. From School Library Journal Grade 1-4-- Hague's visual interpretation of Wilde's stories is more formal and traditional than Ed Young's The Happy Prince (S. Craig Russell's comic book version of Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde (NBM, 1992), but it works exceedingly well. The collection includes all nine of the pieces Wilde wrote for his sons--"The Remarkable Rocket," "The Devoted Friend," and "The Nightingale and the Rose," appear alongside the more familiar "The Happy Prince," "The Selfish Giant," and "The Birthday of the Infanta." This handsome, well-made volume is eminentl
Spectacular full-color paintings complete with richly patterned borders in gold accompany a collection of Wilde's beautiful fairy tales, including ""The Selfish Giant"" and ""The Happy Prince.""