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The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde
20.00 NZD
Category: Children
Oscar Wilde's moving story of the relationship between a magnificent statue and a little swallow is brought to life by Jane Ray's stunning artwork. Perched on high, the prince's statue can see all the misery of the city and begs the swallow to pluck off his gold leaf and distribute it amongst the poor. ...Show more
The Happy Prince & Other Stories (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Oscar Wilde
15.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The richness of Oscar Wilde's way with words and ideas is given full range in this sparkling collection of short stories written between 1887 and 1891. From the comic tales of The Canterville Ghost and Lord Arthur Savile's Crime to the marvelous fairy stories and fantasies of The Selfish Giant, The Hap ...Show more
The Happy Prince & Other Tales by Oscar Wilde
45.00 NZD
Category: Classics
Oscar Wilde’s children’s stories explore timeless themes of good and evil, freedom and responsibility, love and death, beauty and self-sacrifice. Featuring princesses, ogres and talking animals, the questions they pose are as pertinent now as they were at the turn of the century. What is love? asks ‘The ...Show more
The Happy Prince and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde
15.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Collector's Library
Each volume in the "Collector's Library" series has a specially commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list. The afterword for this edition is by David Stuart Davies. The challenge and pleasure of these stories is the simultaneous appeal to both child and adult with ...Show more
The Happy Prince and Other Stories: Popular Penguins by Oscar Wilde
14.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins
In this haunting, magical fairytale collection, Oscar Wilde beautifully evokes (among others) the Happy Prince who was not so happy after all, the Selfish Giant who learned to love little children and the Star Child who did not love his parents as much as he should. Each of the stories shines with poetr ...Show more
The Importance of Being Earnest & Other Plays (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Oscar Wilde
15.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Oscar Wilde was already one of the best-known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance of the 1890s and retain their power today. This c ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar WildeOscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works. Written in Wilde's characteristically dazzling manner, full of stinging epigrams and shrewd observations, the tale of Dorian Gray's mor ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
13.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. 'I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me ... Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day - mock me horribly!' A story of evil, debauchery and scandal, Os ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
15.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Collector's Library
When first published, The Picture of Dorian Gray was regarded as dangerously modern in its portrayal of fashionable fin de siecle decadence. In Wilde's updated version of the Faust story, the tempter is Lord Henry Wotton, who lives selfishly for amoral pleasure; Dorian's good angel or conscience is the ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Popular Penguins by Oscar Wilde
14.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray is the story of a man who makes a devilish pact never to grow old. Dorian Gray remains forever young, indulging in unspeakable pleasures while his portrait bears the mark of his corrupt existence. A beautifully decadent tale of the destructive allure of perpetual ...Show more
The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde
23.00 NZD
Category: Children
The Selfish Giant has a beautiful garden, but he won't let any of the children play in it. Winter comes and never leaves, until the power of love brings Spring and joy into the Giant's garden and his heart...
The Selfish Giant and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde
19.00 NZD
Category: Children
New edition of one of the greatest classics of English literature. " 'My own garden is my own garden,' said the Giant; 'any one can understand that, and I will allow nobody to play in it but myself." So he built a high wall all round it, and put up a noticeboard: TRESPASSERS WILL BE PROSECUTED" When the ...Show more