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Coloro che hanno molto, spesso sono avidi, amava ripetere Oscar Wilde, autore di questa toccante novella, che narra la storia di un gigante che torna al suo castello dopo una lunga assenza e nel giardino trova i bambini del villaggio che giocano felici. Infastidito li scaccia e costruisce un muro per impedire loro di ritornare. Arriva la primavera e nel giardino il freddo dell'inverno si è fermato, un gelo che neanche l'estate riesce a sciogliere. Un giorno i bambini del villaggio scoprono una breccia nel muro edificato dal gigante, entrano ancora nel giardino e si arrampicano allegri e gioiosi sugli alberi, che improvvisamente fioriscono. Un bambino troppo piccolo per riuscire a salire su un albero ha il viso rigato di lacrime e il gigante, pentito per il suo egoismo, lo solleva e lo depone su un ramo. Finalmente si sente felice. Un giorno, però, si accorgeche il piccolo ha le mani ferite... Il gigante egoista è un'opera della collana LibriVivi Fiabe. Vuoi che i tuoi bambini crescano bene, secondo i più sani valori educativi? Le fiabe LibriVivi sono interpretate per la sensibiltà dei piccoli lettori, proprio come vorresti tu.
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"I fell across this book when I was looking for something to read to Suzie and we both fell in love with it. It's a beautiful story about selfishness vs. generosity and has an ending that makes me sob every time. The style and symbols Wilde uses are amazing and I will never tire of reading it."
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Margaret (5 out of 5 stars)
About Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was born in Dublin. He won scholarships to both Trinity College, Dublin, and Magdalen College, Oxford. In 1875, he began publishing poetry in literary magazines, and in 1878, he won the coveted Newdigate Prize for English poetry. He had a reputation as a flamboyant wit and man-about-town. After his marriage to Constance Lloyd in 1884, he tried to establish himself as a writer, but with little initial success. However, his three volumes of short fiction, The Happy Prince, Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime, and A House of Pomegranates, together with his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, gradually won him a reputation as a modern writer with an original talent. That reputation was confirmed and enhanced by the phenomenal success of his society comedies: Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and The Importance of Being Earnest, all performed on London’s West End stage between 1892 and 1895. In 1895, he was convicted of engaging in homosexual acts, which were then illegal, and sentenced to two years imprisonment with hard labor. He soon declared bankruptcy, and his property was auctioned off. In 1896, he lost legal custody of his children. When his mother died that same year, his wife Constance visited him at the jail to bring him the news. It was the last time they saw each other. In the years after his release, his health deteriorated. In November 1900, he died in Paris at the age of forty-six.