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Selfish Giant, the (1888) [Short Story]
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A once selfish giant welcomes the children to his previously forbidden garden and is eventually rewarded by an unusual tiny child.

First published in The Happy Prince and Other Tales.

Original title: The Selfish Giant
Original languages: English

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Genre: Fairy Tales & Folklore→ Original Creations

This work is a subwork of the following works :
Happy Prince and Other Tales, the (1888) [Collection]
Author: Oscar Wilde
Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (1948) [Omnibus Volume]
Author: Oscar Wilde
Victorian Fairy Tale Book, the (1988) [Anthology]
Authors: Charles Dickens , Edith Nesbit , Oscar Wilde , William Butler Yeats , James M. Barrie , Kenneth Grahame , William Makepeace Thackeray , Robert Browning , George MacDonald , Laurence Housman , Christina Rossetti , Mary de Morgan , John Ruskin , Henry Morley , William Allingham , Dinah Maria Mulock Craik , Ford Madox Ford
Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde (1990) [Collection]
Author: Oscar Wilde
Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales, the (1993) [Anthology]
Authors: L. Frank Baum , Ursula K. Le Guin , Charles Dickens , Philip K. Dick , Nathaniel Hawthorne , Alison Lurie , Edith Nesbit , H. G. Wells , Oscar Wilde , Isaac Bashevis Singer , Bernard Malamud , Tanith Lee , Donald Barthelme , Lord Dunsany , Louise Erdrich , Kenneth Grahame , Robert Louis Stevenson , Howard Pyle , Jane Yolen , T.H. White , John Collier , Angela Carter , James Thurber , Joan Aiken , Catherine Sinclair , George MacDonald , Laurence Housman , Frank R. Stockton , Jay Williams , Walter de la Mare , Sylvia Townsend Warner , Mary de Morgan , Lucy Lane Clifford , John Ruskin , Carl Sandburg , Frances Browne , Juliana Horatia Ewing , Richard Hughes , Naomi Mitchison , Jeanne Desy , Richard Kennedy
Complete Short Stories of Oscar Wilde, the (2006) [Collection]
Author: Oscar Wilde

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Published individually as a picture book with illustrations by Susan Saelig Gallagher

The Selfish Giant (1995)

Edition Details:

Language: English

Illustrated by: Katrien van der Grient

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The Selfish Giant (1995)

Format: Hardcover
Place of publication: Edinburgh, UK
Publisher: Floris Books
ISBN: 9780863152122
Dimensions: 8.5 x 11.5 x 0.3 in
Pages: 28

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The Selfish Giant (1995)

Edition Details:

Language: English

Illustrated by: S. Saelig Gallagher

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The Selfish Giant (1995)

Format: Hardcover
Place of publication: New York, NY
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
ISBN: 9780399224485
Dimensions: 8.8 x 11.6 x 0.3 in
Pages: 32

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The Selfish Giant (1984)

Edition Details:

Language: English

Illustrated by: Lisbeth Zwerger

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The Selfish Giant (1991)

Format: Hardcover
Place of publication: New York, NY
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
ISBN: 9780907234302
Dimensions: 8.2 x 11.5 x 0.5 in
Pages: 24