Oscar Wilde

The Happy Prince and other Tales

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In a town where a lot of poor people suffer, a swallow who was left behind after his flock flew off to Egypt for the winter meets the statue of the late 'Happy Prince', who in reality has never experienced true happiness. Viewing various scenes of people suffering in poverty from his tall monument...

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Insight Publica
• Seitenzahl: 50
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 4mm
• Gewicht: 77g
• ISBN-13: 9789385899416
• ISBN-10: 9385899414
• Artikelnr.: 64698699

Autorenporträt

Known for his flamboyant dress, his wit, and glittering conversational skill, Oscar Wilde, or Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, was born October 16, 1854, in Dublin, Ireland. Oscar's father was knighted in 1864 for his work as the author of a National Census Report, and was Ireland's leading ear and eye surgeon. His mother Jane Francesca Elgee was a poet and authority on Celtic myth and folklore and a skilled linguist. Wilde attended the Portora Royal School at Enniskillen and was awarded the Royal School Scholarship to attend Trinity College in Dublin. From there, he studied at Magdalen College in Oxford where his poem "Ravenna" won the Newdigate Prize for the best English verse composition by an Oxford undergraduate. After graduation, he moved to London, focused on poetry and became a spokesman for aestheticism. He published his first collection, Poems, in 1881. In 1882, he traveled to New York City and embarked on an American lecture tour, delivering 140 lectures in just nine months. He also met with leading American scholars and literary figures, including Henry W. Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Walt Whitman.