The Nightingale and the Rose by Oscar Wilde

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The Nightingale and the Rose by Oscar Wilde

The Nightingale Who Gave Everything "The Nightingale and the Rose" belongs to the same 1888 collection as "The Devoted Friend" — Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince and Other Tales — and it is, if anything, the darker of the two. Where "The Devoted Friend" is a fable about exploitation disguised as friendship, this story is something else: it is about…

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