The Nightingale and the Rose

The Nightingale and the Rose

By Oscar Wilde

Pages

18

Rating

4.27

Year

1888

RomanceFantasyFictionClassicsLiteratureShort Stories

Description

From start to finish, "The Nightingale and the Rose" is a story about the nature of love.

A nightingale overhears a student complaining that his professor's daughter will not dance with him because he is unable to give her a red rose. The nightingale visits all the rose-trees in the garden, and one of the white roses tells her that there is a way to produce a red rose, but only if the nightingale is prepared to sing the sweetest song for the rose all night, and to sacrifice her life to do so.

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