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Intermediate level

"The Nightingale and the Rose" by Oscar Wilde is at once touching and darkly funny. Published in 1888, it relates the difficult situation of the Student, who has fallen in painful love with the professor's daughter. A nightingale hears the Student's sorrowful cries and recognizes in them the true love that she has always sung about. She decides to help the Student obtain a red rose to give to his love, even though it will come at great cost to her...