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Twice Upon a Time: The Importance of Rereading "The Devoted Friend"
- Children's Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 36, 2008
- pp. 72-87
- 10.1353/chl.0.0000
- Article
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Readers frequently have wondered if Oscar Wilde's fairy tales were intended for adults or for children. Through its analysis of "The Devoted Friend" (1888), this essay describes Wilde's promotion of a moral code consistent with his developing socialist politics to both children and adults in Victorian England.