the nightingale and the rose by oscar wilde

It begins with a water-rat commenting to a duck about her ducklings, who are refusing to obey her. This story is more or less a story within a story. He put up a notice board 'TRESPASSERS WILL BE PROSECUTED'. On the giant's return from seven years visiting his friend the Cornish Ogre, he takes offence at the children and builds a wall to keep them out. The Selfish Giant owns a beautiful garden which has 12 peach trees and lovely fragrant flowers, in which children love to play after returning from the school. Seeing the student in tears, and valuing his human life above her bird life, the nightingale carries out the ritual and dies painfully. The nightingale visits all the rose-trees in the garden, and one of the roses tells her there is a way to produce a red rose, but only if the nightingale is prepared to sing the sweetest song for the rose all night with her heart pressing into a thorn, sacrificing her life.

In a town full of suffering poor people, a swallow who was left behind after his flock flew off to Egypt for the winter meets the statue of the late 'Happy Prince', who has never experienced true sorrow, for he lived in a palace where sorrow was not allowed to enter.Ī nightingale overhears a student complaining that the professor's daughter will not dance with him, as he is unable to give her a red rose a lizard, a butterfly and a daisy laugh at the student for doing so. It contains five stories: 'The Happy Prince', 'The Nightingale and the Rose', 'The Selfish Giant', 'The Devoted Friend', and 'The Remarkable Rocket'. The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde first published in May 1888.

The nightingale and the rose by oscar wilde