Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
(1854-1900)

Wilde's Tales on SurLaLune

from The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888)

The Happy Prince

The Nightingale and the Rose

The Selfish Giant

The Devoted Friend

The Remarkable Rocket

from A House of Pomegranates (1891)

The Young King

The Birthday of the Infanta

The Fisherman and His Soul

The Star-Child

Further Reading

Ellmann, Richard. Oscar Wilde. New York: Knopf, 1987.

Fido, Martin. Oscar Wilde: An Illustrated Biography. New York: Peter Bedrick, 1973.

Hardwick, Michael. The Osprey Guide to Oscar Wilde. Reading, England: Osprey, 1973.

Hyde, H. Montgomery. Oscar Wilde: A Biography. New York: Farrar, 1975.

Miller, Robert Keith. Oscar Wilde. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1982.

Raby, Peter. Oscar Wilde. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1988.

Schmidgall, Gary. The Stranger Wilde: Interpreting Oscar. New York: Dutton, 1994.

Shewan, Rodney. Oscar Wilde: Art and Egotism. New York: Barnes, 1977.

Von Eckardt, Wolf, Sander L. Gilman and J. Edward Chamberlin. Oscar Wilde's London: A Scrapbook of Vices and Virtues, 1880-1900. Garden City, NY: Anchor, 1987.

Wilde, Oscar. The Happy Prince and Other Tales. London: David Nutt, 1888.
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Wilde, Oscar. A House of Pomegranates. London: James R. Osgood McIlvaine, 1891.
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James McNeill Whistler's Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket (1875). This painting by Whistler is considered to be the inspiration for Wilde's "The Remarkable Rocket."