Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde''s two collections of children''s literature, The Happy Prince and Other Stories (1888) and A House of Pomegranates (1891), have often been marginalised in critical accounts as their apparently conservative didacticism appears at odds with the characterisation of Wilde as an amoral aesthete. In this, the first full-length study of Wilde''s fairy tales for children, Jarlath Killeen ar...