The Happy Prince
A swallow meets the statue of the late "Happy Prince", which houses the soul of the original prince, who in reality had never experienced true happiness. The statue inspires the swallow to selfless acts. • description from wikipedia
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- This is a collection of classic short stories written as parallel texts, i.e. each paragraph next to its translation. It's mainly in Spanish, English and French, but the UI is in Spanish.
https://albalearning.com/ListadoParalelos.aspx
This is my favorite short story, The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde:
https://albalearning.com/TextosParalelos.aspx?id=7061&idB=70...
- I read The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde. It’s only a 10 minute read, meant for kids, but it’s beautiful.
- It is a play, yes.
> I didn't mean all themes had to be in one work.
Oh, in that case...I can recommend so much. It'd take way too long.
Here are a few, off the top of my head:
The First Man by Albert Camus (novel)
The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde (short story)
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (play)
If you want something challenging, try Cervantes' Don Quixote.
- I think this has more to do with our inability and unwillingness to teach calculus from a practical perspective - somehow stubbornly shying away from measuring the acceleration imposed by gravity, building trebuchets, looking at planetary orbits or doing tests with growth of bacteria in school.
I'm reminded of a short aside by Wilde:
> “He looks just like an angel,” said the Charity Children as they came out of the cathedral in their bright scarlet cloaks and their clean white pinafores.
> “How do you know?” said the Mathematical Master, “you have never seen one.”
> “Ah! but we have, in our dreams,” answered the children; and the Mathematical Master frowned and looked very severe, for he did not approve of children dreaming.
- Oscar Wilde, "The Happy Prince"
