![]() ![]() You can find it added to our collection of Free Movies Online, under Animation. Made in 1974 by Canadian company Potterton Productions, and featuring the voices of Christopher Plummer and Glynis Johns, the animated short film above is a faithful rendering of Wilde’s story. It contains five stories: 'The Happy Prince,' 'The Nightingale and the Rose,' 'The Selfish Giant,' 'The Devoted Friend,' and 'The Remarkable Rocket. ![]() High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince. The Happy Prince and Other Tales (or Stories) is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde first published in May 1888. But the prince, we learn, spends his time weeping in compassion for the poverty and suffering he sees below him. The Selfish Giant The Devoted Friend The Remarkable Rocket The Happy Prince. In the title story, a prince is transformed into a glittering statue on a pedestal high above a city, where residents look up to him as an example of human perfection. Some of his best works as a moralist are his children’s stories, such as the 1888 book of fairy stories The Happy Prince and Other Tales. But careful readers of Wilde’s diverse canon of poetry, prose, and drama will know of his critical looks at solipsism and superficiality. Wilde was ridiculed for the many of the same reasons he was feted-his flamboyant public persona and devotion to aestheticism, which satirists caricatured as a kind of decadent navel-gazing. ![]()
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