By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The Remarkable Rocket’ is one of the fairy tales for children written by the Irish author Oscar Wilde (1854-1900). It was published in the 1888 collection The Happy Prince and Other Tales. ‘The Remarkable Rocket’ is about a firework which is set to be […]
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A Summary and Analysis of Oscar Wilde’s ‘Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime’
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Oscar Wilde’s short story ‘Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime’ appeared in the same year that Sherlock Holmes made his debut appearance in print, and curiously, both stories feature a man with an uncanny ability to read the details of people’s lives from very small details. […]
The True Meaning of ‘We Are All In The Gutter, But Some Of Us Are Looking At The Stars’
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars’: this oft-quoted line from Oscar Wilde was not spoken by Wilde during conversation, as so many of his witty lines were. Instead, ‘we are all in the gutter, but […]
A Summary and Analysis of Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Nightingale and the Rose’
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The Nightingale and the Rose’ is a fairy tale by Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), included in his 1888 collection The Happy Prince and Other Tales. Whereas ‘The Selfish Giant’ (from the same collection) deals with Christian love and the title story is about socialism and […]
A Summary and Analysis of Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Selfish Giant’
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Of all of Oscar Wilde’s fairy tales for children, ‘The Selfish Giant’ has the strongest Christian symbolism and is clearly meant to be read and analysed as an allegory for Christian love. In this post, we’ll take a closer look at the story and […]