Oscar Wilde

The Star Child

Found in the forest and brought up by a shepherd, an exquisitely beautiful child grows into a cruel and selfish boy. He rejects his true mother and from that moment his beauty forsakes him.
21 printed pages
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  • allisonclouse1shared an impression8 years ago
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    A gorgeous story about the consequences of cruelty and the rewards of a kind hand. Definite read.

  • Ксенія Грабарshared an impression8 months ago
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Quotes

  • Selsabil Boussaidhas quoted3 months ago
    So overjoyed were they at their deliverance that they laughed aloud, and the Earth seemed to them like a flower of silver, and the Moon like a flower of gold.

    Yet, after that they had laughed they became sad, for they remembered their poverty, and one of them said to the other, 'Why did we make merry, seeing that life is for the rich, and not for such as we are? Better that we had died of cold in the forest, or that some wild beast had fallen upon us and slain us.'
  • Selsabil Boussaidhas quoted3 months ago
    'Well, for my own part,' said the Woodpecker, who was a born philosopher, 'I don't care an atomic theory for explanations. If a thing is so, it is so, and at present it is terribly cold.'
  • Feruzahas quoted3 months ago
    who held a yellow banner in his hand, said to him, 'Who is thy mother, and wherefore art thou seeking for her?'

    And he answered, 'My mother is a beggar even as I am, and I have treated her evilly, and I pray ye to suffer me to pass that she may give me her forgiveness, if it be that she tarrieth in this city.' But they would not, and pricked him with their spears.

    And, as he turned away weeping, one whose armour was inlaid with gilt flowers, and on whose helmet couched a lion that had wings, came up and made inquiry of the soldiers who it was who had sought entrance. And they said to him, 'It is a beggar and the child of

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