The Fisherman and His Soul, and the Tales of A House of Pomegranates
The Fisherman and His Soul, and the Tales of A House of Pomegranates
Every evening the young Fisherman drew his nets from the sea, and one evening he drew up a little Mermaid, sleeping.
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Every evening the young Fisherman drew his nets from the sea, and one evening he drew up a little Mermaid, sleeping. He let her go for the price of her singing — and loved her so wholly that he would give up his very soul to live with her beneath the waves. But a soul cannot be cast off lightly; and once cut loose it goes wandering the world alone, and comes back changed.
The Fisherman and His Soul (1891) is the lush, sorrowful jewel of Oscar Wilde's A House of Pomegranates — the closest literary cousin to Andersen's mermaid, and wholly Wilde's own. This Lightbound Library edition leads with it, and gathers behind it the three companion tales of the collection: The Young King, who dreams of the cost of his crown; The Birthday of the Infanta, and her small cruelty; and The Star-Child, brought low and made kind.
Set afresh in EB Garamond and Marcellus, with Wilde's own dedications kept, and bound behind an original watercolour.
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- Oscar Wilde
- Solocosmo Press
- The Lightbound Library
- Paperback, 6 × 9, 106 pages