书籍介绍
The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde includes the two definitive story collections The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888) and A House of Pomegranates (1891).
This volume collects exquisite and poignant tales of true beauty, selfless love, generosity, loyalty, brilliant wit, and moral aestheticism, such as "The Birthday of the Infanta," "The Selfish Giant," The Nightingale and the Rose," and "The Happy Prince," among others.
A true classic of wonder for all ages.
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was an Irish writer, poet, and playwright. His novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, brought him lasting recognition, and he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era with a series of witty social satires, including his masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest.
Jack Zipes is a preeminent fairy-tale scholar who has written, ...
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核心看点
- 本书收录王尔德两部童话集，展现唯美主义与道德审美的极致冲突。故事表面华丽，内核却充满对虚伪社会、阶级压迫及人性自私的尖锐批判，如《自私的巨人》揭示封闭心灵导致的精神寒冬，警示读者勿被表象迷惑。
- 文本包含大量生僻词汇、旧式拼写及复杂句式，阅读门槛极高。内容涉及宗教隐喻、灵魂哲学及哥特式暗黑元素，并非传统儿童文学。读者需具备较强英文功底，否则极易因语言障碍和晦涩寓意产生挫败感。
- 作品情感基调极度悲观与虐心，充满牺牲、死亡与绝望。如《夜莺与玫瑰》中无谓的献祭，《渔夫与灵魂》中灵魂与肉体的撕裂。这些故事不提供廉价安慰，而是以残酷美学挑战读者对爱与美的认知，引发深层伦理反思。
适合谁读
- 适合英语专业学生或高阶英语学习者，旨在通过高难度文本提升词汇量与语感。但需做好心理准备，书中大量关于服饰、珠宝及宗教的偏门词汇，且句式冗长复杂，不适合初学者或寻求轻松阅读体验的人群。
- 适合对唯美主义、哥特文学及王尔德生平有研究兴趣的读者。本书是其美学思想的极端体现，适合希望深入理解作者‘为艺术而艺术’主张及其背后虚无、颓废倾向的学术型或深度文学爱好者。
- 适合心理成熟、能接受暗黑童话与悲剧结局的成年读者。书中故事充满对人性阴暗面的揭露，不适合儿童或寻求温馨治愈的读者。仅推荐给能欣赏悲剧美学、愿意探讨灵魂、道德与艺术本质之矛盾的严肃读者。
读前提醒
- 切勿将其作为儿童睡前故事阅读。书中内容涉及灵魂出卖、死亡、背叛等沉重主题，情感冲击强烈，可能引发心理不适。建议读者在情绪稳定时阅读，并准备好纸巾，因为故事结局往往令人泪崩或感到深深的无力感。
- 遇到生词不必逐字查证，尤其是关于华丽服饰、珠宝及宗教仪式的描述。这些辞藻堆砌旨在营造唯美氛围，过度纠结词汇会破坏阅读节奏。建议关注整体情节走向与核心隐喻，忽略细节上的语言障碍。
- 建议配合中文译本对照阅读，以准确理解深层寓意。王尔德的文字具有强烈韵律感，但直译可能丢失美感。若感到困惑，可参考权威译本解析其宗教与哲学隐喻，避免误读。同时，警惕书中对‘牺牲’与‘爱’的扭曲描写，保持批判性思维。
读者共识
- 读者普遍认为该书语言极美但内容极度致郁，颠覆了对童话的温馨认知。多数评论指出故事充满悲剧色彩，没有任何‘大团圆’结局，阅读过程伴随强烈的情感创伤与心理不适，不适合寻求快乐或逃避现实的读者。
- 语言难度被广泛吐槽，生词量巨大且多为无用偏门词汇，阅读体验极差。许多读者表示因词汇障碍和晦涩句式而中途放弃，或仅能读懂皮毛。共识认为此书不适合作为英语学习材料，除非具备极高语言天赋与毅力。
- 尽管情感上令人痛苦，但读者仍承认王尔德文字的文学价值与艺术美感。部分读者在经历痛苦阅读后，对其美学思想产生复杂共鸣，认为其揭示了人性与社会的残酷真相。但整体评价两极分化，批评其矫情、虚无及对读者的情感剥削。
本导读基于书籍简介、目录、原文摘录、短评和书评生成，不等同于全文精读。
精彩摘录
- "Then the snow came,and after the snow came the frost.The streetslooked as if they were made of silver,they were so bright and glistening;long icicles like crystal daggers hung down from the eaves of the houses,everybody went about in furs,and the little boys wore scarlet caps andskated on the ice. T"
- "She was one of those people who think that, if you say the same thing over and over a great many times, it becomes true in the end."
- "In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace, the rich make slaves of the poor. It is so with all, with the young as well as with the old, with the women as well as with the men, with the little children as well as those who are stricken in years. Misery wakes us in the morning, and Sham"
- ""What a silly thing love is," said the student as he walked away. "It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything. I shall go back to Phil"
- "The sledge was shaped like a great gold swan, and beyween the sawn's wings lay the little Princess herself. Her long ermine cloak reached right down to her feet, on her head was a tiny cap of silver tissue, and she was as pale as the Snow Palace in which she had always lived."
- "Let me be as they are, I beseech thee, for their days are as the days of flowers. And as for my soul, what doth my soul profit me, if it stand between me and the thing that I love?"
- "And I did a strange thing, but what I did matters not, for in a valley that is but a day's journey from this place have I hidden the Mirror of Wisdom. Do but suffer me to enter into thee again and be thy servant, and thou shalt be wiser than all the wise men, and Wisdom shall be thine. Suffer me to "
- "yet ruled he not long, so great had been his suffering, and so bitter the fire of his testing, for after the space of three years he died. And he who came after him ruled evilly."
作者简介
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was an Irish writer, poet, and playwright. His novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, brought him lasting recognition, and he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era with a series of witty social satires, including his masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest.
Jack Zipes is a preeminent fairy-tale scholar who has written, translated, and edited dozens of books, including The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm and Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde. He is a professor emeritus of German and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota.
Gyles Brandreth is a writer, speaker, broadcaster, and former Member of Parliament. His years as a government whip were chronicled in Breaking the Code: Westminster Diaries, which the Times described as “by far the best political diary of recent years." His other works include the bestsellers Philip and Elizabeth: Portrait of a Royal Marriage, Charles & Camilla: Portrait of a Love Affair, and The 7 Secrets of Happiness. Brandreth has also appeared as a reporter on BBC One's The One Show and is a regular on BBC Radio 4's Just a Minute.
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2016年1月买的，终于看完了。
熱的心，冷的淚，天秤座的悽涼。
很美，充满童话的奇妙，却不止于童话的简单。The Happy Prince&The Fisherman and His Soul&The Birthday of the Infanta.
终于连蒙带猜的读完了 看到最后挺难过的
【2015.01.26-02.01】生词好多。。。偏偏是植物啊，服饰啊，根本不想花力气记住的。就当不认识吧。
都是美到心碎的童話故事
读到“The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world's sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.”瞬间懂了王尔德是和我一样的人...
很喜欢前半部分的童话。真正美丽的故事都是让人忧伤的。
The burden for this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.
读了第一部分，弃了。introduction里写到it is “written, not for children, but for childlike people from eight to eighty”. Guess im not a childlike people for it is clearly not for me.
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