The Happy Prince & Other Stories (Puffin Classics Relaunch)

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  The Happy Prince & Other Stories

  It's all about sad stories...it makes me feel bad.

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  Daddy said on Feb 16, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  The happy Prince
  The nightingale and the rose
  The selfish gigant

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  Aliesa de Ponthieu said on Jun 21, 2009 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  I remember a Happy Prince doll animation from my childhood which was incredibly sad and always made me depressed. Yet it was so beautiful and when I now found out it was Wilde's story I was awed. I liked all of them for their bittersweetness but this particularly is close at my heart.

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  s u v i said on Mar 25, 2008 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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  The eyes of the Happy Prince were filled with tears, and tears were running down his golden cheeks. His face was so beautiful in the moonlight that the little Swallow was filled with pity.
  ‘Who are you?’ he said.
  ‘I am the Happy Prince.’
  ‘Why are you weeping then?’ asked the Swallo ... (continue)

  The eyes of the Happy Prince were filled with tears, and tears were running down his golden cheeks. His face was so beautiful in the moonlight that the little Swallow was filled with pity.
  ‘Who are you?’ he said.
  ‘I am the Happy Prince.’
  ‘Why are you weeping then?’ asked the Swallow; ‘you have quite drenched me.’
  ‘When I was alive and had a human heart,’ answered the statue, ‘I did not know what tears were, for I lived in the palace of Sans-Souci, where sorrow is not allowed to enter. In the daytime I played with my companions in the garden, and in the evening I led the dance in the Great Hall. Round the garden ran a very lofty wall, but I never cared to ask what lay beyond it, everything about me was so beautiful. My courtiers called me the Happy Prince, and happy indeed I was, if pleasure be happiness. So I lived, and so I died. And now that I am dead they have set me up here so high that I can see all the ugliness and all the misery of my city, and though my heart is made of lead yet I cannot choose but weep.’

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  Ais Quin said on Nov 26, 2008 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  The Swallow, my ideal of "Love" !

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  Illusion City said on Aug 22, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• eBook 224 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0141955279
• ISBN-13: 9780141955278
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Pub date: Aug 06, 2009
• Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Library Binding and Others
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