Summary of the story "The Selfish Giant" by Oscar Wilde.

 "The Selfish Giant" by Oscar Wilde is a story of a giant who was very selfish and rude. He did not like the children at all. When the giant went to meet his friend Cornish Ogre for seven years, the children enjoyed the beauty of the giant's garden. They used to play there after their school's end. 

The garden was very beautiful. It was full of soft green grass with beautiful flowers which looked like 'stars'. In the garden, there were twelve peach trees also which were covered with flowers in the autumn season. All was beautiful and gorgeous until the giant came back. 

One day, the giant came back and saw that the children were playing in his garden. So he became very angry and scolded them and got them out from his garden. He always wanted to enjoy the beauty of his garden alone. Now the children were very sad and disheartened because they didn't have any place to play. They tried to play on the road, but it was full of stones and not suitable for playing. So they just sighed that how happy they had been there in that garden. 

But the giant was so much selfish that he had built a high wall around the garden and put a notice board up. On that notice board,it was written that "TRESPASSERS WILL BE PROSECUTED".  

When all around the country spring came, the giant's garden was full of snow as winter was still there. Spring did not want to come here as the giant had not allowed the children to come in. So, the Frost, the Hail, the Snow and the North Wind were enjoying. They thought that they could enjoy the place through out the year, as spring was not coming there. 

Now the giant became tensed. He was thinking about the reason that why spring was not coming. He consoled himself that it might be late, but it must come. But Spring never came. 

One day, the giant was lying on his bed and suddenly he heard the sound of a music. He thought that king's musicians were singing the song. But later he realised that it was a little linnet. He was surprised. He saw that the children entered into the garden through a little hole of the wall. With the children spring also came. The whole garden looked beautiful with beautiful fresh flowers and with the sound of chirping birds.

But he saw that in the one corner of the garden, winter was still there because the little boy could not climb up the tree. He was crying a lot. The tree was bending its branch so that he could climb, but he couldn't. Because he was too tiny to climb. The giant saw that and his heart was melted. He came to that corner to help him. But when the other children saw him, they escaped. But that little child could not see him. So he came to him and helped him to climb up the tree. When the other children saw that the giant was not bad anymore ,they entered into the garden again and spring also came with them. The giant broke the wall down. He told them that it had been their garden from then.