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TypeContemporary review (reprint)
CollectionThe Happy Prince and Other Tales
Publication countryUnited States of America
Publication nameThe Boston Evening Transcript
Publication dateYear 1888Month 08Day 25
Contributed byRegina M. Ponciano
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MLA

Review of The Happy Prince and Other Tales, by Oscar Wilde. The Boston Evening Transcript, no. 17760, 25 Aug. 1888, p. 9. Wilde Short Fiction, edited by Regina M. Ponciano, wildeshortfiction.com/reviews/14.

APA

[Review of The Happy Prince and Other Tales, by O. Wilde]. (1888, August 25). The Boston Evening Transcript, 9. In R. M. Ponciano (Ed.), Wilde Short Fiction [Data set]. https://wildeshortfiction.com/reviews/14

Chicago

Review of The Happy Prince and Other Tales, by Oscar Wilde. The Boston Evening Transcript no. 17760, August 25, 1888, 9. In Wilde Short Fiction, edited by Regina M. Ponciano. https://wildeshortfiction.com/reviews/14.

Very pretty are the fables that Mr. Oscar Wilde has here strung together, tender and graceful, and not without a touch of humor, as in Mother Duck who 'kept saying to herlittle ones, 'You will never be in society unless you can stand on your heads,' and every now and then she showed them how it was done. But the little ducks paid no attention. They were so young that they did not know what an advantage it is to be in society."