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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," "The Fisherman and his Soul," and "The Remarkable Rocket." Alongside THE MODEL MILLIONAIRE, Harper Perennial will publish the short fiction of Fyodor Dostoevsky,...
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JACOB SHOULD BE THANKFUL. He is a successful attorney with a loving and devoted wife and an amazing daughter. He is also a workaholic who eats poorly, drinks, is morbidly obese, and smokes. And his personality can best be described as mean, ruthless, and selfish. But all of that changes when Jacob encounters the Angel of Death. In exchange for his life, he is challenged to repent for the seven deadly sins. Meanwhile, his neglected wife struggles with...
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A selfish giant reforms his ways when the laughter of children brings the beauty of spring to his garden.
Victorian author Oscar Wilde is known both as a playwright and prose author. Among his most famous works are The Picture of Dorian Gray, his only novel, the plays An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, and the short story collections Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories and The Happy Prince and Other Stories.
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After seven years, the Giant has nothing left to say to his friend the Cornish ogre, and so he returns home to his castle-only to find that in his absence, the children have been playing in his beautiful garden. At once the selfish Giant builds a high wall to keep the children out of the garden. Winter turns into Spring all over the country-but not in the selfish Giant's garden. Across the country Spring turns into Summer and then to Autumn-but in...
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One of comic art's most respected and pioneering artists, well known for his opera adaptations and beautiful fantasy work, P. Craig Russell is in the process of adapting Oscar Wilde's famous fairy tales in a series of landmark volumes.This volume includes The Selfish Giant and The Star Child.
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