The Selfish Giant
Oscar Wilde
You can’t go wrong reading anything by Oscar Wilde. The plays are flawless, the novels brilliant, but for me Wilde was at his truest with his fairy tale The Selfish Giant. The lonely giant, whose greedy heart is melted by the goodness of a child playing in his garden, always seemed to be a metaphor for the way LGBT people had to outwardly harden themselves to not to be persecuted for their same-sex desires in a time where “the love that dare not speak its name” wasn't just frowned upon, it was criminal. If you can read the story’s conclusion without shedding a tear, you've got a harder heart than the selfish giant himself.
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