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The Selfish Giant
Oscar Wilde
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The Selfish Giant
Oscar Wilde
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A selfish giant reforms his ways when the laughter of children brings the beauty of spring to his garden.
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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THE SELFISH GIANT
Every afternoon, as they were coming from school, the children used to go and play in the Giantâs garden.
It was a large lovely garden, with soft green grass. Here and there over the grass stood beautiful flowers like stars, and there were twelve peach-trees that in the spring-time broke out into delicate blossoms of pink and pearl, and in the autumn bore rich fruit. The birds sat on the trees and sang so sweetly that the children used to stop their games in order to listen to them. âHow happy we are here!â they cried to each other.
One day the Giant came back. He had been to visit his friend the Cornish ogre, and had stayed with him for seven years. After the seven years were over he had said all that he had to say, for his conversation was limited, and he determined to return to his own castle. When he arrived he saw the children playing in the garden.
âWhat are you doing here?â he cried in a very gruff voice, and the children ran away.
âMy own garden is my own garden,â said the Giant; âany one can understand that, and I will allow nobody to play in it but myself.â So he built a high wall...