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The Selfish Giant and Other Tales
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  • Published: 9 June 2026
  • ISBN: 9780241783115
  • Imprint: Puffin Modern Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $22.99

The Selfish Giant and Other Tales

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9 June 2026
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19 Mar 2026
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Gorgeously collectable Little Clothbound Classic editions of beloved short stories for children

Rediscover the magic of Oscar Wilde's fairy-tales in this beautiful, collectable new Little Puffin Clothbound Classic.

'I have many beautiful flowers; but the children are the most beautiful flowers of all.'

From the newfound generosity of 'The Selfish Giant' to the haunting bravery of 'The Nightingale and the Rose’, this Little Puffin Clothbound Classic collects the most poetic, magical and absolutely unforgettable of Oscar Wilde's short stories for children into a perfectly giftable hardback edition.

The Little Puffin Clothbound Classics collect some of the most beloved classic short stories for young readers into stunning, highly collectable small format editions. Bound in high-quality cloth with dazzling new foil-stamped designs, they're little enough to fit in a pocket and lovely enough to keep forever. Gift the best-loved classics to a new generation with Puffin’s gorgeously accessible Little Puffin Clothbound Classics collection.
  • Published: 9 June 2026
  • ISBN: 9780241783115
  • Imprint: Puffin Modern Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin on 16 October 1854. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin and Magdalen College, Oxford. He then lived in London and married Constance Lloyd in 1884. Wilde was a leader of the Aesthetic Movement. He became famous because of the immense success of his plays such as Lady Windemere's Fan and The Importance of Being Earnest. His only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, was first published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890 but was revised in 1891 after moralistic negative reviews. After a public scandal involving Wilde's relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas, he was sentenced to two years' hard labour in Reading Gaol for 'gross indecency'. His poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol was published anonymously in 1898. Wilde never lived in England again and died at the age of forty-six in Paris on 30 November 1900. He is buried in Père Lachaise cemetery where admirers often leave the lipstick marks of kisses on his tomb.
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The Complete Fairy Tales
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