Oscar's Tales #5

 My reading of the fifth of Oscar Wilde's children's stories, "The Nightingale and the Rose". This is possibly the saddest of the stories with the poignant fate of the little bird who clearly has more passion in her little heart than the dozy pair of humans have in theirs. It is one of my favourites from Oscar's canon. This story inspired a small kind of "tribute act" story of my own which I have told (and possibly recorded, I cannot recall offhand if I have or not) - nowhere near as poetic as Oscar's work but following the same basic plot but with an addendum of sorts to link into fairy lore.


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