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The birthday of the infanta

The world is revealed as a cruel place when the Infanta of Spain is gifted a hunchbacked child for entertainment on her twelfth birthday. Victorian author Oscar Wilde is known both as a playwright and prose author. Among his most famous works are The Picture of Dorian Gray, his only novel, the plays An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, and the short story collections Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories and The Happy Prince and Other Stories.

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  • "Il compleanno dell'Infanta"
  • "Birthday of the Infanta"@it
  • "The birthday of the Infanta"@it

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  • "The world is revealed as a cruel place when the Infanta of Spain is gifted a hunchbacked child for entertainment on her twelfth birthday. Victorian author Oscar Wilde is known both as a playwright and prose author. Among his most famous works are The Picture of Dorian Gray, his only novel, the plays An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, and the short story collections Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories and The Happy Prince and Other Stories."@en
  • "With brilliant illustrations by a master of comic art, the lyrical prose of this fairy tale by Oscar Wilde is brought to life. A hideous dwarf is captured in the woods and brought in to the court of the beautiful royal infanta for her amusement. He is full of good humor and tricks and becomes quite popular but remains quite unaware of his looks. She has him perform in front of her friends for her birthday. He is very touched and quite proud to receive such attention, until he sees himself in the mirror and realizes their entertainment may be at his expense. Perfect for middle school students as an introduction to the world-famous author, the dazzling illustrations in this book suit the timeless writings of Wilde."@en
  • "Playwright, poet, essayist, flamboyant man-about-town, Oscar Wilde pack an astonishing amount of work, genius, and controversy into two short decades, producing masterworks in every literary genre. This selection includes almost all of his short stories, including "The Canterville Ghost," "The Fisherman and his Soul," and "The Remarkable Rocket." Alongside THE MODEL MILLIONAIRE, Harper Perennial will publish the short fiction of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Herman Melville, Willa Cather, Leo Tolstoy, and Stephen Crane to be packaged in a beautifully designed, boldly colorful boxset in the aim to attract contemporary fans of short fiction to these revered masters of the form. Also, in each of these selections will appear a story from one of the new collections being published in the "Summer of the Short Story." A story from Simon Van Booy's forthcoming collection, LOVE BEGINS IN WINTER, will be printed at the back of this volume."@en
  • "A grotesque dwarf falls in love with the beautiful Infanta."
  • "A grotesque dwarf falls in love with the beautiful but selfish Infanta."

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  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Verhalen (teksten)"
  • "Love stories"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Specimens"
  • "Fairy tales"@en
  • "Fairy tales"
  • "Juvenile works"
  • "Juvenile works"@en
  • "Short stories"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en

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  • "Il compleanno dell'Infanta"@it
  • "The birthday of the infanta"@en
  • "The birthday of the infanta"
  • "The birthday of the Infanta short story"@en
  • "Der Geburtstag der Infantin"
  • "The birthday of the infanta short story"@en
  • "Der Geburtstag der Infantin [und andere Märchen]"
  • "The birthday of the Infanta"@en
  • "The birthday of the Infanta"
  • "Der Geburtstag der Infantin; Der eigensüchtige Riese"
  • "The birthday of the Infanta = Il compleanno dell'infanta"
  • "Birthday of the Infanta"
  • "Der Geburtstag der Infantin [und andere Erzählungen]"
  • "Il compleano dell'Infanta"
  • "Geburtstag der Infantin"
  • "Il compleanno dell'Infanta"

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