Oscar Wilde supposedly said that these fables were "intended neither for the British child nor the British public". A follow-up to his first popular fairy-tale collection (âThe Happy Prince and Other Talesâ), âA House of Pomegranatesâ (1891) is indeed decidedly darker and more adult. The collection includes "The Young King", "The Birthday of the Infanta, "The Fisherman of his Soul", and "The Star Child". While similar, in some ways, to the fairy-tales of Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm these have a certain interesting Wilde flair to them that is hard to pinpoint.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet, famous for âThe Picture of Dorian Grayâ and âThe Importance of Being Earnestâ to name a couple. He was believed to be gay and met a lot of resistance in his life on that account. He died in Paris at the age of 46.