这本书收入王尔德两部著名的童话集《快乐王子集》和《石榴之家》，是唯美主义童话的代表作。作家除遵循一般童话中应有的惩恶扬善、锄强扶弱、劫富济贫以及褒美贬丑等主题外，还以他的唯美主义观点，探讨"幸福"、"心之美"、"灵魂、肉体与心灵"等重大命题，而且在童话写作形式和内容表达两方面都取得突破，取得实绩，堪称"世上最美的童话"。(This book collected two famous fairy tale sets of Wilde: The Happy Prince Set and The Family of Pomegranate, is the masterpiece of aestheticism fairy tales. In addition to following the themes such as praising virtue and punishing vice, curbing the violent and helping the weak, robbing the rich to feed the poor and commending the kindness and derogating the ugly that supposed to be provided in the general fairy tales, the writer, in his aestheticism viewpoint, also explored into "happiness", "beauty of heart", "soul, flesh body and mind" and other major propositions, and made a breakthrough and actual achievement in both writing form and expression of the fairy tales, which can be called "the world's most beautiful fairy tale".)