DescriptionThe Happy Prince and Other Tales is a collection of five short stories for children, written by Oscar Wilde and first published in 1888. The stories are; The Happy Prince (the tale of a statue and a swallow who are destroyed and then rewarded for their selfless deeds); The Nightingale And The Rose (the sad story of a nightingale who sacrifices it's life to help out a student); The Selfish Giant (a story about a giant who banishes children from his garden, only to discover it is the children that make the garden grow); The Devoted Friend (a story within a story about a man who shows nothing but selflessness to his friend who does not return the sentiment); and, The Remarkable Rocket (the tale of a firework who in an attempt to show off his importance, ends up going completely unnoticed).This book has 16,171 words, and was originally published in 1888.