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TypeContemporary review (original)
CollectionThe Happy Prince and Other Tales
Publication countryUnited Kingdom
Publication nameThe Magnet: Agricultural, Commercial, and Family Gazette
Publication dateYear 1888Month 08Day 27
Contributed byRegina M. Ponciano
How to cite
MLA

Review of The Happy Prince and Other Tales, by Oscar Wilde. The Magnet: Agricultural, Commercial, and Family Gazette, no. 2616, 27 Aug. 1888, p. 6. Wilde Short Fiction, edited by Regina M. Ponciano, wildeshortfiction.com/reviews/109.

APA

[Review of The Happy Prince and Other Tales, by O. Wilde]. (1888, August 27). The Magnet: Agricultural, Commercial, and Family Gazette, 6. In R. M. Ponciano (Ed.), Wilde Short Fiction [Data set]. https://wildeshortfiction.com/reviews/109

Chicago

Review of The Happy Prince and Other Tales, by Oscar Wilde. The Magnet: Agricultural, Commercial, and Family Gazette no. 2616, August 27, 1888, 6. In Wilde Short Fiction, edited by Regina M. Ponciano. https://wildeshortfiction.com/reviews/109.

Fairy tales were more popular in former generations than at the present day, but they may still have admirers, and be read by young and old ; the theatres seem to have exhausted most of the interest felt in them, and another kind of spectacular drama, as well as another description of sensational literature, claim attention. Mr. Oscar Wilde has written a volume of stories of this nature, wherein graceful fancies and romantic conceits are woven with appropriate skill. [Proceeds to publish excerpts of "The Happy Prince", [sic] "The Giant and the Children", and "The Nightingale and the Rose"]