| The Remarkable Rocket | |
|---|---|
.png) Crane's illustration in The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888) | |
| Folk tale | |
| Name | The Remarkable Rocket |
| Country | Ireland |
| Origin Date | 1888 |
| Published in | The Happy Prince and Other Tales |
"The Remarkable Rocket" is a short fairytale that was first published in 1888 in The Happy Prince and Other Tales which is a collection of five fairytales written by Oscar Wilde.[1]
The Remarkable Rocket is a parody of aristocratic vanity and masculine conceit.[2] Although the story is written in simple language, the humour is directed at adults.[3]
- ^ Owen Dudley Edwards, ‘Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills (1854–1900)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Sept 2012, doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29400, accessed 6 Feb 2013
- ^ Wynn William Yarbrough (14 June 2011). Masculinity in Children's Animal Stories, 1888-1928: A Critical Study of Anthropomorphic Tales by Wilde, Kipling, Potter, Grahame and Milne. McFarland. pp. 134–. ISBN 978-0-7864-8554-3.
- ^ Peter Raby (1988). Oscar Wilde. CUP Archive. pp. 60–. ISBN 978-0-521-26078-7.