The Happy Prince and other stories – Oscar Wilde

These short stories for children are, of course, beautifully written and show off Wilde’s great imagination. A couple of times they are burdened with excess religiosity, but generally the morals are sound (except in the case of The Devoted Friend, the punchline of which is that moral tales are a terribly bad idea). I liked the final story about an overbearing firework, the kind of conceit the metaphysical poets would have gone for.