The Happy Prince
High above the city stands the gilded statue of a prince — and begins to see. Oscar Wilde’s tale of 1888 is a fairy tale for adults: about beauty, poverty and the price of compassion. Newly translated, fully cast and produced as a Cinematic Audio Play.
Chapters
Total ~24 min · DE ⇄ ENChapters 1 and 2 are free — no account, in full length. The Cinematic Edition unlocks all chapters, in both languages.
Two languages, sentence by sentence.
This is how the edition reads: the active sentence glows in both languages — one click, and the sound switches language, mid-sentence.
Hoch über der Stadt, auf einer hohen Säule, stand die Statue des glücklichen Prinzen. Über und über war er mit dünnem Blattgold überzogen …
High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince. He was gilded all over in thin leaves of fine gold …
Buy once. No subscription.
- The first 2 chapters — in full
- Dual-language reader included
- No account needed
- The whole work, cinematically produced
- German and English, joined sentence-exact
- Reader + download, all devices
- Full castvoiced with AI synthetic voice — distinct voice per character
- Continuous ambient bedatmosphere instead of silence between sentences
- Three master profilestuned for streaming, Apple and broadcast
- Reader includedboth languages, sentence-exact in sync
- Downloadlisten offline, on all devices
Wilde called “The Happy Prince” a fairy tale — never one for children alone. A city in splendour that overlooks its poor, and two figures who look closely: what the tale meant in 1888, and why it still does.
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