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Length22m
About this audiobook
The story of "The Happy Prince" has three major themes.
Firstly it shows that apparent beauty is nothing and the real beauty is to bestow love and sacrifice. Secondly, it discusses that love and sacrifice are two saving forces. Thirdly, it shows that there is a large gap between rich and poor people the rulers and the masses. When the happy prince is alive he lives a happy life without sorrows, he is living a care free life but after his death he sees through a tall Colum that life has another view except happiness and that is helplessness poverty, hypocrisy and corruption of elite and ruling class.
When a bird swallow comes and stays under the feet of prince he begs for his helps match girl, poor writer…
The Happy Prince " has been written in fairy tale mode through which he has exposed the exploitation, materialism and corruption of Victorian society.
The Happy Prince is social satire prudence says that "the truepurpose of satire is the modification of vices by correction".
It was first published in 1888 in the anthology The Happy Prince and Other Tales, which, in addition to its title story, also includes "The Nightingale and the Rose", "The Devoted Friend", "The Selfish Giant" and "The Remarkable Rocket".
Audiobook details
GenreFairy Tales and Folklore, Other
Length22 mins
Narrated byAbigail Reno
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateDec 15, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Oscar Wilde - The Happy Prince_Intro
2Oscar Wilde - The Happy Prince
3Oscar Wilde - The Happy Prince_Outro
De profundisOscar Wilde2h 16m$2 · $0.00
The Happy Prince, and Other TalesOscar Wilde2h 33m$2 · $0.00
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime; The Portrait of Mr. W.H., and Other StoriesOscar Wilde2h 31m$2 · $0.00
Oscar Wilde: Die ErzählungenOscar Wilde13h 55m$2 · $0.00
SaloméOscar Wilde2h 13m$2 · $0.00
The Happy Prince and Other TalesOscar Wilde2h 43m$2 · $0.00
Poems, with The Ballad of Reading GaolOscar Wilde2h 55m$2 · $0.00
The Oldest Gay NovelsOscar Wilde, Bayard Taylor, Virginia Woolf, Lucas Malet, Robert Hichens, Henry Blake Fuller, Radclyffe Hall, Jack Saul, Sheridan Le Fanu, Theodore Winthrop, Harlan Cozad McIntosh119h 45m$2 · $0.00
De profundisOscar Wilde4h 48m$2 · $0.00
El retrato de Dorian GrayOscar Wilde9h 2m$2 · $0.00
The Picture of Dorian GrayOscar Wilde8h 31m$2 · $0.00
IntentionsOscar Wilde6h 13m$2 · $0.00
TelenyOscar Wilde8h 3m$2 · $0.00
The Poetry of Oscar WildeOscar Wilde4h 43m$2 · $0.00
Salomé (Bilingual Edition: English-French)Oscar Wilde2h 34m$2 · $0.00
El príncipe felizOscar Wilde25m$12 · $0.00
Un marido idealOscar Wilde3h 39m$2 · $0.00
The Complete PoetryOscar Wilde5h 16m$2 · $0.00
Teleny (Summarized Edition)Oscar Wilde2h 43m$2
Le portrait de monsieur W. HOscar Wilde3h 51m$2 · $0.00
No Living SoulJulie Moffett10h 38m$25 · $0.00
The Undead PoolKim Harrison16h 13m$33 · $0.00
The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers GrimmBrothers Grimm33h 30m$47 · $0.00
Joy in the MorningP. G. Wodehouse6h 57m$17
THE CAMELOT TRILOGYHoward Pyle38h 19m$2 · $0.00
Grimm's Fairy TalesThe Brothers Grimm28h 44m$30
A Christmas Carol & Other Christmas Stories by Charles DickensCharles Dickens79h 27m$2 · $0.00
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The Happy Prince, and Other TalesOscar Wilde2h 33m$2 · $0.00
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Household Tales by Brothers GrimmJacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm29h 29m$1 · $0.00
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