"The Selfish Giant"

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Learning Objective: To comprehend and get
knowledge about the tale and its author

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Contents: Tale “The Selfish Giant” by Oscar
Wilde
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"The Selfish Giant" is a short fantasy story for

children written by the Irish author Oscar Wilde. It
was first published in 1888 in the anthology The
Happy Prince and Other Tales, which, in addition
to its title story, also includes "The Nightingale and
the Rose", "The Devoted Friend" and "The
Remarkable Rocket".
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Plot
The story's plot revolves around a giant who
builds a wall to keep children out of his garden,
but learns compassion from the innocence of the
children. This story contains significant religious
imagery.
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Composition
The Selfish Giant is full of inner meaning and moral
message. It suggests that if we give happiness to
others we can also feel happiness in our life. The
story tells about a giant who was really selfish and
moves around a person who is very mean by nature.
He doesn’t like the children who are playing in his
Garden. His selfishness was quite evident in the act
of depriving the children from the pleasures of his
garden.
 About the author: Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 –

30 November 1900) was an Irish novelist, playwright,
essayist, and poet. After writing in different forms
throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most
popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is
remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of
Dorian Gray, his plays, as well as the circumstances of
his imprisonment and early death.
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Wilde's Literary work:

Wilde wrote essays, novels, plays , short stories and
poems, some of his best known tittles are:
The Happy Prince and Other Stories (1888, fairy stories)
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Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories (1891,

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stories)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (first published in 1890)
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A Woman of No Importance (1893, play)

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The Importance of Being Earnest ( published 1898; play)

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