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The Fisherman and His Soul |
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”The Fisherman and his Soul” is a fairy tale first published in November of 1891 in Wilde’s “A House of Pomegranates”. It tells of a fisherman who nets and falls in love with a mermaid. But to be with her he must shed his soul, which goes off to have adventures of its own. Will forbidden love endure?
Contents: The Young King
The Birthday of the Infanta
The Fisherman and his Soul
The Star child
THE YOUNG KING
[TO MARGARET LADY BROOKE THE RANEE OF SARAWAK]
It was the night before the day fixed for his coronation, and the
young King was sitting alone in his beautiful chamber. His
courtiers had all taken their leave of him, bowing their heads to
the ground, according to the ceremonious usage of the day, and had
retired to the Great Hall of the Palace, to receive a few last
lessons from the Professor of Etiquette; there being some of them
who had still quite natural manners, which in a courtier is, I need
hardly say, a very grave offence. The lad for he was only a lad, being but sixteen years of age was
not sorry at their departure, and had flung himself back with a
deep sigh of relief on the soft cushions of his embroidered couch,
lying there, wild eyed and open mouthed, like a brown woodland
Faun, or some young animal of the forest newly snared by the
hunters. And, indeed, it was the hunters who had found him, coming upon him
almost by chance as, bare limbed and pipe in hand, he was following
the flock of the poor goatherd who had brought him up, and whose
son he had always fancied himself to be... Continue reading book >>
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Genres for this book |
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Children |
Fairy tales |
Fiction |
Literature |
Poetry |
Short stories |
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Reviews (Rated: 4 Stars - 1 review) |
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Reviewer: Mapalo - May 24, 2017 Subject: Nice but needs less demons and stuff I like it but the reader should speak English I don't understand a word he is saying. The fisherman should listen to the priest |