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10 best books like The Birthday of the Infanta (P. Craig Russell): The Canterville Ghost, The Selfish Giant, The Happy Prince, A House of Pomegranates, The Nightingale and the Rose, Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde: The Devoted Friend/The Nightingale and the Rose, The Sphinx Without a Secret, The Model Millionaire, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, The Fisherman and His Soul

The Canterville Ghost
AuthorOscar Wilde
ISBN0744549515
The original Wilde Thing does it again...

Seriously...how does one not love on Oscar Wilde when he's throwing down the snarky...in this case, and in proper British fashion, against cocky, adolescent-cultured Americans and their starched-lip, tradition-trapped English cousins?

A...
The Selfish Giant
AuthorOscar Wilde
ISBN0399224483
Don't you tell me that you have not read this one!



The sign that got trapped in the labyrinth of my 3rd grade mind reading his English Gulmohar was this :



Got burnt into my memory. And that is how I dug this books out of my pensive to add it here on Goodreads - by searching...
The Happy Prince
AuthorOscar Wilde
ISBN0525453679
I've always liked Oscar Wilde's prose, if not his drama, but I thought this was an exercise in hypocrisy, or perhaps it was just Oscar Wilde, locked out of the gates of the wealthy aristocracy, just venting his spleen on them. You would think a man who lost everything because of the prejudice against his...
A House of Pomegranates
AuthorOscar Wilde
ISBN1420927353
Once upon a time there was a little collection of fairy tales called The House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde. I opened this book up and found a whole different book than the one I had expected! Is that a good or a bad thing? Well, I suppose both.

My familiarity with Mr. Wilde is pretty much based on...
The Nightingale and the Rose
AuthorOscar Wilde
ISBN1430439866
An allegorical fable of love, sacrifice and selfishness. As with all of Wilde's short stories it embodies strong moral values and is told with an effervescence akin to that of the 1001 nights.

It is the tale of a lovestruck student who must provide his lover with a red rose in order to win her heart....
Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde: The Devoted Friend/The Nightingale and the Rose
AuthorP. Craig Russell
ISBN1561633917
In this graphic novel, Russell takes two fairytales by Oscar Wilde, "The Devoted Friend" and "The Nightingale and the Rose" and turns them into a comic strip story and changes some of the stories elements. The first fairytale, "The Devoted Friend" tells a story of a young boy named Hans, who has the most...
The Sphinx Without a Secret
AuthorOscar Wilde
ISBN0061922250
The Dead End Exit


The eternal quest for mystery is part of human condition. When it takes to relationships, it seems to have some sort of aphrodisiac effect — like a magnet, it pushes one lover towards the other — there’s a trunk of secrets to be found and slowly uncovered, one by one,...
The Model Millionaire
AuthorOscar Wilde
First published in The World in June 1887. Hughie Erskine is in love and wants to marry, but the girl's father will not allow it, since Erskine has no money. Erskine's friend, Alan Trevor is a painter, and he visits him at his studio one day to find him with a pitiable beggar—the model for his painting....
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
AuthorOscar Wilde
ISBN1853260665
It was Lady Windermere's last reception before Easter, and Bentinck House was even more crowded than usual. Six Cabinet Ministers had come on from the Speaker's Levee in their stars and ribands, all the pretty women wore their smartest dresses, and at the end of the picture-gallery stood the Princess...
The Fisherman and His Soul
AuthorOscar Wilde
To get what we want is often the greatest curse of all. The fisherman here accidentally catches a mermaid in his net. He falls in love with the Mermaid and tells her that he wants to marry her. She tells him that he can only marry her if he sends away his soul. From a Witch, the Fisherman learns how to send his...
The Young King
AuthorOscar Wilde
ISBN0061923192
Playwright, poet, essayist, flamboyant man-about-town, Oscar Wilde pack an astonishing amount of work, genius, and controversy into two short decades, producing masterworks in every literary genre. This selection includes almost all of his short stories, including "The Canterville Ghost,"...
El amigo fiel
AuthorOscar Wilde
The Devoted Friend is a satirical fairy tale about friendship. With Wilde I have since learnt there is method behind the madness in the infuriating stories he tells.

A pompous and opinionated old water-rat is heard to be waxing lyrical about the rarity and nobility of a devoted friendship....
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