Type | Contemporary review (Reprint) |
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Collection | The Happy Prince and Other Tales |
Publication country | United States of America |
Publication name | The Literary News, An Eclectic Review of Current Literature |
Publication date | Year 1888Month 10Day 01 |
Contributed by | Regina Martínez Ponciano |
How to cite | The Literary News, An Eclectic Review of Current Literature (United States of America), 1888-10-01, available at the Wilde Short Fiction database, https://wildeshortfiction.com/reviews/1888u. |
Messrs. Roberts Brothers publish 'The Happy Prince ' and other tales, by Oscar Wilde, with illustrations by Walter Crane and Jacomb-Hood. Really, these five tales are very fine. 'The Nightingale and the Rose' tells a pathetic story of a young man who loved deeply and of a young woman who did not know the great worth of such love. Now, the plain English of it is that a young man who loves is usually honest about it, and that a young woman who does not love in return is very apt to make light of both the young man and the unaccepted lover. But a young woman who boasts of such things, usually called a 'rejected' lover, very rarely finds true love, whether in herself or in others. For she has despised the most precious thing in all the world. The little volume will make many friends for Mr. Wilde.