![]() 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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