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He also wrote a number of very popular comedies for the theatre, including The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), but is perhaps er and funny sayings about life most famous for his many clev« and people. He died in Paris in 1900 at the age of forty-six. Lord ‘Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde is also available as a Domino. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESSBEFORE READING 1 Match the words with the pictures. Use a dictionary to help you. prince statue swallow reed mayor angel 2 The Happy Prince is a fairy tale. What do you think happens? Make sentences with the things from Activity 1. a The... isin love with the... b The... is always happy. c The... criesa lot. d The... wants to go to Egypt e The... doesn’t like the old... f The... dies in the end. & The... comes down from the sky to find something. Compare your ideas with a partner. Chapter | 4% Happy and In Love Ina country far away, a young prince lives happily in the wonderlul palace of Sans-Souci. Nothing sad comes through the door of that palace. Every day he plays with his friends in the palace garden. Every night he laughs and sings with his friends in the biggest room in the palace Everything there is beautiful. But what about the other people in his country? The prince doesn’t know about them. He never leaves the palace or its garden. So he never thinks about other people, and he never asks any questions to learn about them. Everyone at the palace calls him, ‘The Happy Prince.’ And when he dies, they make a statue of him. prince the most important man in 2 little country palace 0 big house where a prince lives Sans-Souci son susi sad not happy other different statue a picture of a person made of metal or stone