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A House of Pomegranates

by Oscar Wilde

A House of Pomegranates is a collection of fairy tales written by Oscar Wilde, published in 1891. It is Wilde's second fairy tale collection, following The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888). He said of the book that it was "intended neither for the British child nor the British publicgolden book", declaring he never went anywhere without it. He also called it . The aesthetics suggested by Pater guided Wilde in creating the worlds within A House of Pomegranates, each respective story reflecting decadent subjects and delving into their own senses of sensuality. Despite this collection being similarly defined by decadent themes which "...encode and express a pederastic ethos through the particular focus on sensual experience and moral enlightenment...

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