What would you do if the weight of a kingdom rested on your shoulders - and every jewel and crown hid the suffering of the innocent? In Oscar Wilde’s "The Young King", a sixteen-year-old shepherd discovers he is heir to unimaginable wealth and power. At first, he marvels at the glittering treasures and opulent coronation robes - until three haunting dreams reveal the human cost of his future reign: weavers, miners, and pearl divers laboring in misery so that his kingdom may shine. Torn between luxury and conscience, he makes a courageous choice: rejecting riches, he dons a humble shepherd’s tunic and a crown of briers. Miraculously, his humility and compassion are rewarded, as divine forces honor his empathy and moral courage. Wilde’s lyrical prose brings every vivid image and moral awakening to life, weaving a timeless fairy tale of beauty, conscience, and justice. Press play now - and witness a king who rules not by wealth, but by heart.
100 Meisterwerke der Weltliteratur - Klassiker die man kennen muss
Franz Kafka, Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski, Rumi, Platon, Tacitus, Homer, Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, Oswald Spengler, Alfred Adler, Marcus Aurelius, Arthur Schopenhauer, Walt Whitman, Joseph Conrad, Robert Louis Stevenson, Karl May, Alexandre Dumas, James Fenimore Cooper, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, O.Henry, Stefan Zweig, Charles Dickens, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Joseph von Eichendorff, Klaus Mann, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Else Lasker-Schüler, Heinrich Heine, Herman Melville, Iwan Sergejewitsch Turgenew, Gustav Freytag, Thomas Wolfe, Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Gustave Flaubert, Rainer Maria Rilke, John Galsworthy, Iwan Alexandrowitsch Gontscharow, Oscar Wilde, Lew Wallace, Voltaire, Lewis Carroll, Johanna Spyri, Mark Twain, Selma Lagerlöf, Rudyard Kipling, Jules Verne, Jack London, Miguel de Cervantes, Honoré de Balzac, Emile Zola, Guy De Maupassant, Moliere, Theodor Fontane, Nikolai Gogol, Leo Tolstoi, Anton Pawlowitsch Tschechow, Dante Alighieri, Joseph Roth, Robert Musil, E T A Hoffmann, Heinrich Mann, Kurt Tucholsky, Heinrich von Kleist, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Gottfried Keller, Sophie von La Roche, Theodor Storm, William Shakespeare
