During his prolific career, Oscar Wilde also wrote several stories for children and fairy tales. In these stories Wilde really expressed his affection for aesthetic writing. His children's tales are assembled in his two short story collections:
The Happy Prince and Other Tales:
The Happy Prince
The Nightingale and the Rose
The Devoted Friend
The Selfish Giant
The Remarkable Rocket
A House of Pomegranates:
The Young King
The Birthday of the Infanta
The Fisherman and His Soul
The Star-Child

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish writer, poet and dramatist. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays and poetry, and the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. Wilde is a central figure in aesthetic writing. His controversial, open lifestyle was the reason he was charged and eventually convicted for the crime of sodomy.