ISBN: 978-1-948886-01-7

FAIRY TALES OF OSCAR WILDE

Early in his career, Oscar Wilde produced two books of fairy tales -- The Happy Prince and Other Tales and A House of Pomegranates. They're rarely collected in one volume, and never with the stunning artwork of Yuko Shimizu (The Unwritten, Barbed Wire Baseball), one of the most celebrated and admired editorial illustrators in the world. As Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Cunningham writes in his introduction to the volume, this collaboration is "a meeting of such extraordinary talents the book itself emanates the minute traces of a pulse." 12" x 9", 172 pages.

 

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Reviews

"Shimuzu’s illustrations are varied, powerful, and often evoke batik and other resist-dyeing techniques…the design of the book matches them with elegance and inspired use of color and pattern to set each story in its own frame." -LOCUS Magazine

"By pairing classic fiction with some powerhouses of contemporary illustration, these editions hearken the illustrious past of bookmaking, while also adding a tantalizing contemporary take." -Hyperallergic

"Highly recommend it as a gift for someone artistic or creative." -Beautiful Books