Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde: The Young King and The Remarkable Rocket
GOscARWIDE OCONGR tt F th A SO AP eCADAO UEV R 31 COACs by R RavGRISSEY IT WAS THE NIGHT BEFORE THE DAY FIXED FOR HIS CORONATION AND THE YOUNG KING WAS SITTINd ALONE IN HIS BEAUTIFUL CHAMBER HIS COURTIERS HAD ALL TAKEN THEIR LEAVE OF HIM TO RECEIVE A FEW LASTLESSONS FROM THE PROFESSOR OF ETIQUETTE THERE BEING SOME OF THEM WHO HAD STILL QUITE NATURAL MANNERS WHICH IN A COURTIER IS INEED HARDLY SAY A VERY GRAVE OFFENCE THE LAD FOR HE WAs ONLY A LAD BEING BUT SIXTEEN YEARS OF AGE WAS NOT SORRY AT THEIR S DEPARTURE AND HAD FLUNG HIMSELF BACK WITHADEEPSIGH OF RE LIEF ON THE SOFT CuSH iONS OF HIS EMBROIDER ED COUCH LYING THERE WILD EYED AND OPEN MOUTHED LIKE A BROWN WOODLAND FAN OROME YOUNG ANIMAL OF THE FOREST NEWLY SNARED MAIN BY THE HUNTERS
AND INDEED IT WAS THE HUNTERS WHO HAD FOUND HIM COMING UPON HIM ALMOST BY CHANCE AS BARE LIMBED AND PIPE IN HAND HE WAS FOLLOW ING THE FLOCK OF THE POOR GOATHERD WHO HAD BROUGHT HIM UP AND WHOSE SON HE HAD ALWAYS FANCIED HIMSELF TO BE THE CHILD OF THE OLD KING's ONLY DAUGHTER BY A SECRET MARRIAGE WITH ONE MUCH BENEATH HER IN STATION the G HE HAD BEEN WHENBUTA WEEKOLD AS SHE SLEPT AND GIVEN TO AN OLD STOLEN FROM HIS MOTHER S SIDE PEASANT AND HIS WIFE WHO LIVED IN A PART OF THE FOREST REMOTE win GRIEF OR AS SOME Su6 AND AS THE TRUSTY MESSENGER THE GESTED A SWIFT ITALIAN WHO BARE THE CHILD ACROSS THE BODY OF THE POISON IN A CUP OF SPICED WINE SADDLE Bow STOOPEO FROM HIS PRINCESS WAS BEING LOWERED SLEWWITHIN AN HOUR OF HER WAKE WEARYHORSE AND KNOCKED AT THE INTO AN OPEN GRAVE IN A DESERTED NING THE GIRL WHO HAD GIVEN RUDE DOOR OF THE GOATHERO's HuT CHURCHYARD BEYOND THE CITY HIM BIRTHALL GATES A GRAVE WHERE IT WAS SAID THAT ANOTHER BODY WAS ALSO LYING THAT OF A YOUNG MAN OF MARVELLOUS AND FOREIGN BEALTY WHOSE HANDS WERE TIED BEHIND HIM WITH A KNOTTED CORD AND WHOSE BREAST WAs STABBED WITH MANY RED WOUNDs
Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde: The Young King and The Remarkable Rocket
With brilliant illustrations by a master of comic art, this book of two of Oscar Wilde’s fairy tales brings his lyrical prose to life.
