Fairy tales
This collection includes all the fairy tales and humorous fairy tale novella by Anglo-Irish writer and poet Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) in translations under the general editorship of Kornei Ivanovich Chukovsky (1882-1969). The book is decorated with 90 illustrations, as well as design elements by American artists Everett Shinn (1876-1953) and Wallace Goldsmith (1873-1945) and Russian (Soviet) artists Vasily Vasilievich Spassky (1873-1924) and Alexander Petrovich Apsit (1880-1943).
Oscar Fingal O’Flaherty Wills Wilde (1854-1900) was an Anglo-Irish writer and poet, one of the most famous playwrights of the late Victorian period, and one of the key figures of aestheticism and European modernism. His aesthetic views were shaped by the English writer John Ruskin, the Romantic poets, and the Pre-Raphaelites. Wilde's first poetry collection - "Poems" (1881) - demonstrated his commitment to the aesthetic direction of decadence, which is characterized by individualism, mysticism, pessimistic moods of loneliness and despair. Then came the first play by the playwright-"Faith, or Nihilists" (1881). Later Wilde turned mainly to other genres - essays, fairy tales; his only novel "The Portrait of Dorian Gray" (1890) with the aestheticization of immorality, the charm of vice served as a forerunner of the few dramatic works of the writer.
Wilde's comedies were immediately staged on the London stage and enjoyed resounding success, but in 1895 they were withdrawn from the repertoire, and the playwright's name was banned: a trial began, which eventually led to a two-year imprisonment of the writer. Having been released, Wilde, under the name of Sebastian Melmoth, went to France, where he soon died.
Oscar Wilde's fairy tales, which were inspired by his own children, were published by the author in different years: "The Happy Prince and Other Tales" ("The Happy Prince," "The Nightingale and the Rose," "The Selfish Giant," "The Loyal Friend," and "The Wonderful Rocket") was published in 1888, and "The Pomegranate House" ("The Young King," "The Infanta's Birthday," "The Fisherman and His Soul," and "The Star Boy") was published in 1891. Last in chronology (in 1887) was printed gothic-humoristic magical fairy tale "The Canterville Ghost".
The works were translated into Russian by Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky (1882-1969), Zinaida Nikolaevna Zhuravskaya (1867-1937), Marlya Pavlovna Blagoveshchenskaya (1863-after 1953), Semyon Grigorievich Zaimovsky (1868-1950), Yakov Jeronimovich Yasinsky (1886-1942), Anna Aleksandrovna Sokolova (Isakova) (1864-1949) and Mikhail Fedorovich Likiardopulo (1882-1925). The texts of the translations were edited by Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky before publication.
The book is decorated with 90 illustrations, as well as design elements by American artists Everett Shinn (1876-1953) and Wallace Goldsmith (1873-1945) and Russian (Soviet) artists Vasily Vasilievich Spassky (1873-1924) and Alexander Petrovich Apsit (1880-1943).
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Library of World Literature