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A House of Pomegranates

Oscar Wilde

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”The Fisherman and his Soul” is a fairy tale in Wilde’s “A House of Pomegranates”. It tells of a fisherman who nets and falls in love with a mermaid. But to be with her he must shed his soul, which goes off to have adventures of its own. Will forbidden love endure?

A House of Pomegranates is a collection of fairy tales, written by Oscar Wilde. Wilde once said that this collection was "intended neither for the British child nor the British public."

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .t passion brings upon its servants, he had failed to notice that the elaborate ceremonies by which he sought to please her did but aggravate the strange malady from which she suffered.  When she died he was, for a time, like one bereft of reason.  Indeed, there is no doubt but that he would have formally abdicated and retired to the great Trappist monastery at Granada, of which he was already titular Prior, had he not been afraid to leave the little Infanta at the mercy of his brother, whose cruelty, even in Spain, was notorious, and who was suspected by many of having caused the Queen’s death by means of a pair of poisoned gloves that he had presented to her on the occasion of her visiting his castle in Aragon.  Even after the expiration of the three years of public mourning that he had ordained throughout his whole dominions by royal edict, he would never suffer his ministers to speak about any new alliance, and when the Emperor himself sent to him,. . . Read More

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Once upon a time there was a little collection of fairy tales called The House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde. I opened this book up and found a whole different book than the one I had expected! Is that a good or a bad thing? Well, I suppose both.

My familiarity with Wilde is pretty much based on his

I am constantly amazed at the ability of some writers to be so consistently adaptable that they tell distinct stories in such disparate voices using varying story devices. Here, in A House of Pomegranates Oscar Wilde adopts a very story-time voice to tell Once-Upon-A-Time type tales. There is a clas

2.5 Stars. Oscar Wilde’s other short stories... Sadly, this is definitely my least favourite work by Wilde so far (and I only have his poems and essays left to read, which aren’t really comparable), and the only one that I haven’t really liked (which, on the bright side, says something about the qua

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"A House of Pomegranates" is a collection of four fairy tales which were written by Oscar Wilde and published in 1891. It is regarded as a follow-up to his first fairy tale collection "The Happy Prince and Other Tales".

Wilde's success arose primarly from thinking of stories as things to tell. It is

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