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A House Of Pomegranates - cover

A House Of Pomegranates

Oscar Wilde

Publisher: Greenbooks Editore

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A House of Pomegranates is a collection of fairy tales, written by Oscar Wilde, that was published in 1891 as a second collection for The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888). Wilde once said that this collection was "intended neither for the British child nor the British public."
The stories included in this collection are as follows:

The Young King
The Birthday of the Infanta
The Fisherman and his Soul
The Star-Child.
Available since: 05/28/2021.

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