Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde: Vol. 1 - The Selfish Giant/The Star Child

by Oscar Wilde, P. Craig Russell

Overview

One of comic art’s most respected and pioneering artists, well known for his opera adaptations and beautiful fantasy work, P. Craig Russell is in the process of adapting Oscar Wilde’s famous fairy tales in a series of landmark volumes. This volume includes The Selfish Giant and The Star Child.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781561637263
Publisher:	N B M Publishing Company
Publication date:	06/01/2012
Series:	Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	48
File size:	7 MB
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

About the Author

A graduate of the University of Cincinnati with a degree in painting, Philip Craig Russell has run the gamut in comics. After establishing a name for himself at Marvel, he went on to become one of the pioneers in opening new vistas for comics with, among other works, adaptations of Operas by Wagner (Parsifal) and Mozart (The Magic Flute). His massive adaptation of The Ring of the Nibelung may be his magnum opus. He has also collaborated frequently with Neil Gaiman on Sandman. He has become known as an artist's artist with his very refined pure line. His series of adaptations of the Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde has gone back to press many times and been translated in over 6 languages. Oscar Wilde was a playwright, essayist, and novelist. He was the author of The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Date of Birth:

October 16, 1854

Date of Death:

November 30, 1900

Place of Birth:

Dublin, Ireland

Place of Death:

Paris, France

Education:

The Royal School in Enniskillen, Dublin, 1864; Trinity College, Dublin, 1871; Magdalen College, Oxford, England, 1874