“The Importance of Being Earnest” is a light-hearted play – and like everything written by Oscar Wilde it’s absolutely perfect. The author has produced the greatest abuse of Victorian morals, but in such a charming way that nobody could possibly be angry with him for this.
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“The Happy Prince” is one of Oscar Wilde’s most famous fairy tales – short and unusually pious for this author. It talks about a statue of a Happy Prince – a beautiful statue decorated with gold and gems, but not as happy as others think, because the Prince can see all the poverty surrounding him in the town where he is. So, with the help of his new friend – the Swallow – he sacrifices first the ruby that decorates his sword-hilt, then two saphires – his eyes – and finally all the gold. Swallow delivers those gifts to the poor people of the town, and then one day drops dead from cold, because in order to help the Happy Prince he fails to fly away to the south in time.
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This relatively short, but charming, story of an old English Ghost trying hard to scare an American family is full of warm irony, refreshing humour and strong belief that a kind heart can make true miracles.
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Back to classical and well-known literature of the nineteenth century – truly the Golden Age of literature. Oscar Wilde’s only novel, into which he put all his genius, keeps fascinating generations of readers, because love and hate, moral and immoral deeds, purity and depravity, and good and bad influences are topics that don’t belong to any particular time – they will exist for as long as human beings trample on the surface of the Earth.
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