The Star Child

«Oscar Wills Wilde (1854 1900) was an Irish author, playwright and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he started to consider one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s.  Oscar Wilde created an astonishing amount of work, genius, and controversy into two short decades, producing masterworks in every literary genre. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. Oscar Wilde created an astonishing amount of work, genius, and controversy into two short decades, producing masterworks in every literary genre.

The Star Child is a brief story by Oscar Wilde describing about care and love of poor woodcutter to little child who was found in the forest. Ten years passed and little child grew up and became selfish and proud man but at the same time he was handsome and very pretty. After a while his appearance turned as ugly as a toad! Why he became so? And what happened to him latter? The book would be useful to read and to discuss question about humility, attitude, and rewards and consequences.»

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