![]() It remains distressingly relevant a century after Wilde’s death. Wilde was an astute social commentator with a propensity to cut through self-serving hypocrisy, and as a condemnation of what we’re prepared to sanction as long as we’re prosperous The Happy Prince is among his strongest works. ![]() Now high above the city he has a full view of the misery and deprivation he was spared when alive. In the manner of fairy tales, this statue has a sentience and embodies the spirit of the boy it represents, having memories of the happy closeted days in a beautiful palace before he died young. Those never read the original as a child may be surprised to learn the happy prince is a statue, very finely adorned and upon a pedestal both literally and figuratively, universally admired and held up as an example by mothers to misbehaving children. While many of the others fell from fashionable grace over the years, its reputation has been sustained, and as lovingly detailed by Russell it’s a definite crowd pleaser. ![]() ![]() Craig Russell turned his attention to Wilde’s best known and most loved of them, The Happy Prince. It wasn’t until this fifth book adapting Oscar Wilde’s fairy tales, a full twenty years after the first, that P. ![]()
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