Download Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde by P. Craig Russell (.CBR)

Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde by P. Craig Russell.
Requirements: CBR Reader, 108 MB.
Overview: Comic book adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s fairy tales.

    P. Craig Russell’s Harvey and Eisner Award-winning adapting Oscar Wilde’s lyrically worded tales: The Happy Prince and Other Tales (sometimes called The Happy Prince and Other Stories) is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde first published in May 1888. It contains five stories, "The Happy Prince", "The Nightingale and the Rose", "The Selfish Giant", "The Devoted Friend", and "The Remarkable Rocket". It is most famous for its title story, "The Happy Prince".

Genre: Comics, Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Classic, All Ages, Adaptation.

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Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde

    Oscar Wilde story, writer
    P. Craig Russell cover, inker, letterer, penciler, writer
    Michael Taylor letterer
    Digital Chameleon colorist
    Published by NBM Publishing. 1992-2012.

      Book 1:

        1. The Selfish Giant: The Star Child is full of vanity, cruelty, and haughtiness – until he meets his beggar woman mother.
        2. The Star Child: The Selfish Giant will not share anything of his until a little boy manages to open his heart.

      Book 2:

        1. The Young King: From humble origins, The Young King revels in the finer possessions of his new lofty position. When he sees the suffering his people go through making these for him, he casts them off but paradoxically, this is not what they want.
        2. The Remarkable Rocket: See Russell at his most cartoony in the amusing The Remarkable Rocket, a vain rocket who figures to be better than all the rest even seeing glory in his demise.

      Book 3:

        The Birthday of the Infanta: A hideous dwarf is captured in the woods and brought in to the court of the beautiful royal infanta for her amusement. He is full of good humor and tricks and becomes quite popular but remains quite unaware of his looks. She has him perform in front of her friends for her birthday. He is very touched and quite proud to receive such attention, until he sees himself in the mirror and realizes their entertainment may be at his expense.

      Book 4:

        1. The Devoted Friend: The Devoted Friend on what constitutes real friendship.
        2. The Nightingale and the Rose: The Nightingale and the Rose, a stirring story of sacrifice to love with a cruel twist.

      Book 5:

        The Happy Prince: The Happy Prince is arguably the most famous and well loved of Oscar Wilde’s nine fairy tales, rivaled only by The Selfish Giant. It is also a very timely tale at a time of controversy over the increasing chasm between rich and poor. The Happy Prince has lived a life of opulence but has died young, and his soul inhabits a beautiful ruby encrusted statue covered all over in gold leaf. From his perch high above the city he is witness to all the poverty, misery, and hopelessness in which his people have been living. When a small barn swallow in flight to the warm south ahead of the approaching winter stops to rest upon the statue the Happy Prince prevails upon him to delay his travels in order to remove his gold leaf a piece at a time and shower it upon the poor citizens. Out of love for the Happy Prince the swallow does his bidding. As the days pass the Prince’s beauty is stripped away and as winter sets in the bird’s fate is sealed. In the spring the townspeople finding only a dull statue with a broken lead heart and a dead bird consign the worthless objects to the ash heap. Only an emissary of God recognizes them as the most valuable treasures of the city and brings them to the gardens of heaven.

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Download Instructions:
http://ceesty.com/wLENwc — Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde 01 (1992)
http://ceesty.com/wLENwn — Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde 02 (1994)
http://ceesty.com/wLENwW — Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde 03 (1994)
http://ceesty.com/wLENwF — Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde 04 (1994)




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