《快乐王子》 / The Happy Prince

[[TheHappyPrince|《快乐王子》 / The Happy Prince]] appears in 10.王尔德奇异故事集：用最会撒谎的嘴唇亲吻天使 as one of the familiar [[OscarWilde|Wilde]] tales that shaped readers’ early impression of his sadness and sacrificial beauty. [[FeiBi|菲比]] recalls liking it since childhood, and the episode places it beside [[TheNightingaleAndTheRose|《夜莺与玫瑰》]] and [[HansChristianAndersen|安徒生]]’s [[TheLittleMermaid|《海的女儿》]] as a cluster of beautiful, painful fairy-tale reading.

The source uses the story mainly as contrast. [[WildeStrangeStories|《王尔德奇异故事集》]] contains gentler endings, satire, and black comedy, so returning to The Happy Prince helps prevent a single “sad Wilde” image from flattening the wider body of work.

Connections

• [[OscarWilde|Oscar Wilde / 王尔德]] - author.
• 《夜莺与玫瑰》 / The Nightingale and the Rose and [[TheLittleMermaid|《海的女儿》]] - sacrificial-beauty comparison texts in the source.
• [[WildeStrangeStories|《王尔德奇异故事集》]] - collection contrasted with this familiar tale.
• Adult Fairy-Tale Reading and Children’s Literature Complexity - reading frames extended by the source.