Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde

REFRAIN from purchasing this edition !!! Oscar Wilde's fairy tales are wonderful, so my unflattering review rather concerns this edition in particular, which is not only painfully ugly - printed on rough toilet paper of the lowest quality -, but unethical as well !... Two renowned scholars, Mr. Gyles Brandreth and Mr. Jack Zipes, drafting the Introduction and the Afterword, respectively, quote one another - or are they ? - most joyfully, not concerning themselves in the least with copyright infringement, plagiarism and other such trivialities... So I quote Mr. Brandreth's Introduction: " And the Prince and the swallow, what are they but male lovers whose pure love transcends the vulgar values of the petty-minded town councilors? " (p. XV) To which Mr. Zipes' Afterword "echoes" : " [...] the prince and the swallow are clearly male lovers, whose spiritual bond transcends the [...] petty values of the town councilors " (p. 210) No quotation marks, nothing!... Who's quoting who?... Allez savoir! And it goes on - Mr. Brandreth : " In each of these stories, [...] there is [...] a religious fervor and a sense of impending doom " (p. XV) / Mr. Zipes : " Throughout the stories [...] there is a sense of impending doom. [...] Oscar Wilde's fairy tales have a religious fervor to them " (p. 211 & 213) No wonder young students copy whole essays from the Internet and from one another, disregarding any kind of work etiquette, if even such eminent university professors think nothing of it!... This is a DISREPUTABLE edition and an indelible stain on Signet Classics, whose message to the youth is here particularly blameworthy... BAD, BAD work, DO NOT BUY this for your kids, there are fairer editions of Oscar Wilde's short stories, nicely illustrated and presented with at least some sense of professionalism!