If the statue and the Swallow’s self-giving in The Happy Prince moved you, you’ll likely be swept up by the little prince’s care for his rose and his lesson with the fox—“you become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.” Like Wilde’s tale, The Little Prince wraps luminous symbols around tender truths about compassion, loneliness, and the cost of love.

You responded to the Prince giving away his sapphires and gold leaf to help the poor; The Giving Tree distills that same spirit into a simple, aching fable. As the tree offers apples, branches, and even its trunk across a boy’s lifetime, you’ll find the same quietly powerful lesson about what it means to give—and what it costs.

If Wilde’s jeweled statue and gentle, shimmering narration captivated you, Coelho’s The Alchemist offers that same melodic, aphoristic voice. Following Santiago’s quest for his Personal Legend, it blends fable-like scenes and luminous imagery—much like the poetic cadence you felt in “The Happy Prince” and “The Nightingale and the Rose.”

As with Wilde’s collection, you can dip into any tale and find a complete, resonant world. Carter’s The Bloody Chamber reimagines familiar myths—like “The Company of Wolves” and “The Snow Child”—with sharp twists and sumptuous prose, offering the same satisfying, story-by-story emotional crescendos you enjoyed across Wilde’s tales.

If the Happy Prince’s view of the city’s suffering—and his choice to strip away his riches—stuck with you, Twain’s tale of Edward and Tom swapping places exposes the same chasm between privilege and hardship. Watching the prince navigate London’s streets echoes the statue’s awakening to injustice and the moral urgency to act.