Complete and unabridged, with 97 full-page plates by Johan Christian Dahl, Hubert Robert and Gustave Courbet. Both of Wilde's books of fairy tales, written for his sons and read since by everyone else. The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888): the statue who gives away his gold leaf, the nightingale who dies for a red rose, the selfish giant and the spring that will not enter his garden. A House of Pomegranates (1891): darker and more ornate — the young king, the fisherman and his soul, the star-child. The Canterville Ghost, Wilde's comic ghost story, is bound in between the two. Ninety-seven plates of ruins, waterfalls and sunken roads, among them paintings by Hubert Robert and Giovanni Paolo Panini, run through the volume like the landscapes of a dream the tales might have been told in.