"The Collector's Colour Library" takes the favourite illustrated titles of "The Collector's Library" and presents them in full colour. Original colour illustrations are faithfully reproduced, and where illustrations and decorations were originally black and white they have been sensitively coloured by Barbara Frith, one of Britain's most accomplished colourists. The challenge and pleasure of Wilde's short stories is the simultaneous appeal to both child and adult with their themes of love, truth and sacrifice which are as relevant today as they were when they were written. From the comically unsuccessful and unhappy spook in "The Canterville Ghost" to the incompetent would-be murderer in "Lord Arthur Saville's Crime" we are treated to the extravagance and dexterity of Wilde's wit. Charles Robinson's colour plates are supplemented by Barbara Frith's colouring of drawings by Walter Crane, Jacomb Hood and others.

 

This book is part of a book series called Collectors Colour Library .

There are 304 pages in this book. This book was published 2012 by Pan Macmillan .

J. M. D. Meiklejohn (1830-1902) was a Scottish educator and the author of many textbooks on language and literacy. Walter Crane (1845 1915) was an artist and book illustrator and part of the Arts and Crafts style of late Victorian illustrated literature that still influences nursery rhymes and children's stories. Charles Robinson (1870 - 1937) is best known for his classic illustrations to fairy tales and other children's books, including Robert Louis Stevenson's Child's Garden of Verses and Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden. Oscar Wilde was born in Ireland in 1854 and is known for his poetry, plays and the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray . He died in Paris in 1900.