I did not really enjoy this book too much and as a classic book, it is a total let down. If you asked me for a
favourite
story among all of them, it would be ‘The Nightingale and the Rose’. Even though it is a sad short story, I liked it and I think it is truly the best in the book. I actually thought it would be a happy story full of bird’s song and joy but it was full of death and suffering. My second
favourite story is the one in the title: the Happy Prince. It too, is about a bird, but this time it is a swallow. The swallow is supposed to migrate to Egypt but instead it stays and helps the statue of the Happy Prince, by giving poor
people all the jewels and riches off the statue. The people of the town decide to get rid of the statue saying that it’s dull, and the swallow, which dies at his feet, is thrown away with the Happy Prince’s lead heart…