The Selfish Giant: The Happy Prince The Nightingale and the Rose

Written by Oscar Wilde

Narrated by Gordon Griffin and Anah Ruddin

Every afternoon, after school, the children used to go and play in the Giant's yard. One day the Giant came back. He had been to visit his friend the Cornish ogre, and had stayed with him for seven years. After the seven years he had said all that he had to say, and he decided to return to his own castle. When he arrived he saw the children playing in the yard. So he built a high wall all round it, and put up a sign.

Nach der Schule schleichen die Kinder gern in den Garten des Riesen. Als der Riese jedoch entdeckt, dass sie in seinem Garten spielen, verbietet er den Kindern den Zugang und baut eine Mauer. Von nun an kehren auch Frühling und Sommer nicht mehr in den Garten zurück - es scheint für immer Winter zu bleiben. Doch eines Tages ereignet sich etwas Wundervolles.

Schauspielerin Anah Ruddin spricht einfühlsam und warm die Geschichten des glücklichen Prinzen und der aufopfernden Nachtigall, Gordon Griffin lässt den Hörer die innere Wandlung des bösen Riesen mitfühlen.

Die GoyaLiT-Reihe "The Sound of the Language" präsentiert die beliebtesten Themen der englischsprachigen Literatur im Original. Englische Schauspieler interpretieren die ungekürzten Texte. Die Sammlung literarischer Perlen ermöglicht lebendiges Fremdsprachenlernen durch Hören. Eine Vokabelliste im Booklet erleichtert das Verständnis.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Goyalit
• Release date: Jan 3, 2013

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was a Dublin-born poet and playwright who studied at the Portora Royal School, before attending Trinity College and Magdalen College, Oxford. The son of two writers, Wilde grew up in an intellectual environment. As a young man, his poetry appeared in various periodicals including Dublin University Magazine. In 1881, he published his first book Poems, an expansive collection of his earlier works. His only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, was released in 1890 followed by the acclaimed plays Lady Windermere’s Fan (1893) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895).