Oscar Wilde’s Fairy Tales

I had read Oscar Wilde’s iridescent fairy tales — Wilde’s father was a famed collector and publisher of folk-tales in Ireland. My mother had given me a copy of Tolstoy’s village tales when I was a small child. I didn’t expect these faint echoes of entertaining tales told when I was eight-years-old to be of service as an anti-troll radar in a war zone decades later!

Source: Disinfolklore (6) (Substack essay)

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